Evening journal., 1895-11-19
THOUSANDS WERE SPENT.
NEARLY Two-AND-A-HALF MILLIONS
TO 1894


was Used In Improving the Delaware aud
Keeping ~ Navigable to tho Largest
ships-The Channel Across Buikhead
Bar $50 Feet wide aud 20 Feet Deep.
Submitting details Of General Craig
hills annual report at Washington. the
Delaware recommendation Of which
we're outlined In Saturdays EVENING
JOURNAL a Washington correspondent
writes at length on the Delaware river
improvement clanses. 10 seems that
about 81 425 coo, covers the estimated
cost OF the permanent improvement OF
Delaware river between the upper part
OF Philadelphia and deep water IN the
bay This estimate Of cost does not
include the improvement Of Philadelphia
harbor, which Is separate project
With tho present requirements OF com
meree above Philadelphia, II Is not
considered that the part OF the river
| lying bstwesn Trenton snd Bhdesburg
demands any further improvement.
The entire amount expended on the
Improvement OF the Delaware liver from
1885 to June 20, 1894 under approprlR
tions both for special localities and the
general river was 81 PA POS SO, Of
which &1is 500 was expended ou that
part Of the river between Trenton aud
the upper part Of Phiadelphia
As o result OF this expenditure, there
had been formed at tho latter date a
channel OF nsvlgable width. and a
feet deep At mean low water through the
bars between BridesburR and Bordon-
town; a channel aoross KinkorA bar, z Z
feet deep; a channel acroHH Five Mile bur.
$40 feet wide, and from 10 to 10 feat
deep; chaDnel from 200 TO 400 feet
wide, and from "a 10 20 feet desp
through the ehonl areas a. Port
Ricamond channel across Milln bar,
| 100 feet wide and from "a TO "a 8 feet
deep; a channel through Schooner Ledge
| 220 feet wide and "a feet deep except
over small area recently discovered,
where the depth Is reduced TO % feet at
mean low water; channel through
Cherry Island Flats, 200 to 800 feet wide
and from 10 to q feet deep and a chan.
mel across Bulkhead Par $50 feet wide
and from "A to 20 feet deep
Dnrlng the fiscal year ending Jane 30,
695 the sum Of sos 704 l3 vas expended
IA surveys, examinations, the repair OF
the dixie at Bulhhesd Bar. dredging at
Bulkhead Bar. repair Of tho dixie AZ Miillin
Bar, dredging at Pefriwig Bar, and 70
moval OF the bow Of wrecked steamship
Allegheny making a total expenditure
sinrs 1886 OF s., 2,272 9l3 02. OF which
$500 0l8 O2 has been expended on the
present project
The chsnges during the past 6scAl ear
are summarized as follows:
At Perfiwig Bar channel 200 feet
wide and six feet deep at mean lew
water is being dredged. The channel
across KinkoFa Bar has now a minimum
depth OF nine feet at mean low water.
At Five mile Bar the dixie has formed a
channel Of ample width. having q mini
mum depth Of IA 2 feet at mean low
water The "A foot channel has . mini
mum width OF 1876 feet At Cherry
IslAnd Flats the channel drsdged IN
1893. 400 feet vide aud from 25 20 81
feet deep, has shoaied over distance OF
about 900 feet, the minimum depth
being 20 2 feet At mean low water The
mlulmum depth however, is now greater
than It was IN November. 1898. showing
that since that time soour has been IN
progress At Bulkhead Rsr about one
thhd Of the width OF the prof isctsd 600
foot channel has been dredg,d through
the bar TO depth Of 26 feet At mean low
i water