Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-21
QUIZ COAST DEFENsEs-


! ports % exc secretary OF Wae Thse Oar
Coase Defenses Are InadeQunee-SabmA.
fiae Mines - IN Aid 70 Eortancaeiooe-
Esttnsntss for Continulng Work on H.
poreant River aad Harbor Inprovs4
ments.
WASHINGTON. Nov. lathe annual
report of Gen. Craighill, chief OF engi-
neers, to the secretary OF war has
been made public He says that since
the date of the last report the board
has prepared projects for the artillery
defense Of Philadelphia, Key West.
San Diego, the mouth Of the Columbia
river. Galveston and Puget sound. Al
lotments have been made during the
year for emplacements for fourteen II
inch, twenty-one 10-inch and seven E
inch guns, and eighty Pinch mortars
to be distributed among Portland. Bos-
ton. New York. Philadelphia. Wash
ington, Hampton Roads, Charleston.
Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans and
San Francisco.
Gen. Craighil1 attaches much inn
portance to the defense of forts by sub
marine mines, supplementing the
artillery defense. With the small
funds in hand he has completed twen-
ty-f1ve casemates for the defense OF the
Atlantic coast and San Francisco, and
is about to undertake the construction
of one at Galveston. He submits esti-
mates of $50, 600 for additional CASE
mates, and $50. 900 for the purchase OF
submarine mines and appliances
The general states that the appro-
priation for the preservation and repair
Of Notifications is entirely inadequate.
and suggests an increase in the appro-
priation. As the appropriation of $780,
900 for the acquisition of sites for sea-
coast defenses was entirely exhausted
at Narragansett Bay. Baltimore and
Charleston, he requests an additional
appropriation of $3.50, 600 for the pro-
curement of other sites
Gen. Craighill favors carrying on
river and harbor improvements under
continuous contracts, for which appro-
priations have been made in sundry
civil acts.
The financial statement shows that
there was expended on rivers and har-
bors during the past fiscal year, exclu-
sive of the Mississippi and Missouri
River commissions expenditures, the
sum of SIS. 440.9 1854. making the total for
the past two years $40, 90t, os4.
Estimates are submitted in lump for
the next two years, which Gen. Craig
hill believes is necessary in order to
conform to the practice of congress in
failing to pass bill during short
session of SCI. 016. 1877, made up as fol-
lows: General improvements, $l2, 1885,
500; continuing contract work, S., 044,-
597 this for expenditures in one year,;
Mississippi river commission, $2,665,-
900; Missouri river commission, $780,
900; examinations, surveys and contin-
gencies, S2OO. 600; special estimates sub
mitted by the Mississippi river COM
sion. s1,417. 600; special estimate sub
United by the Missouri river commits
sion. S16O, 900.
OF the south pass of the Mississippi.
it is said that during the past fiscal
year the legal channel was maintained
at the head OF the pass, and through
the pass itself, but during period of
forty-three days such channel was not
maintained through the jetties-
Estimates for continuing the work on
the more important river and harbor
projects are submitted as follows. the
amount to be expended in the next
fiscal year:
winaw bay, South Carolina, $780, 1000; Santee
river, South Carolina, $4,000; Charleston har-
Dor, 100000; Savannah river, $1,000; Darien
harbor, Georgia, 5000: Key West harbor.
f1250O; Charlotte harbor, Florida. 10000;
Chattahooche river, 2O.0O0 Pensacola harbor,
100000 Alabama river. 100000: Coosa river,
between Rome and the Tennessee river bridge,
t187 500; between Wetumpka and the same
bridge, $312, 500; Mobile harbor. $50 GOO; Black
Warrior river. 800 ,0O0 Warrior and Tombig-
bee, in Alabama and Mississippi, $50, 600; Tom
bigbee, up to Demopolis, S97 900: below DEM
opolfs, 500, 600: Bayou Lafourche, La, &25O0J:
Bayou Plaquemine. S150,000; Calcasieu river,
10000: Sabine Pass, Tex, $275. 600; Galveston
harbor, 81 100000; Galveston ship channel.
100000. Buffalo bayou. $4,000; Red river,
Louisiana and Arkansas. $4,000; Ouachita
and Black rivers, $50, 600; Yazoo river, SIS 600:
Yazoo harbor, Vicksburg, 81. 600. Arkansas
river. 500 co., White river, 10000: Misslssip-
pi river. between Ohio and Missouri rivers,
B33.000; upper Mississippi river improvements.
e567 600; lock and dam No. 2, $25.00): head
waters, reservoirs Of the Mississippi. $50 600:
Missouri river above Sioux City, 500. 000 re-
moving snags In same $4,000; Cumberland
Tennessee river, e4s5 goo: Ohio river. $45o.000:
snagboatS and dam No. 2, $4,000; Herr
Island dam near Pittsburgh, 100000; Green
river. above Big Barren. KY. $4,000; Ken
lucky river. Kentucky. $780, 600; Big Sandy,
$4,000; Agate Bay harbor. Minnesota, $4,000;
Duluth harbor. e75,eo0; Superior bay and St.
Louis bay, $4,000; Ashland, Wis, S2S, 000
Portage Lake and Superior canal, $4,000;
Grand Maria, $4,000; Pensuakee harbor. Wis.
$685. oo; Green Bay. 5000; sheboygan harbor.
bes .ooo Milwaukee Bay. 5000; Racine har-
Dor. $4,000; Waukegan harbor, So
900; Calumet harbor. 10000; Calumet