The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-23
our COAST DEFENsES.

porlAlt RIVER and HarDOr Improve
ments-
WASHINGTON. Nov. ls.-The annual
report of Gen. Craighill, chief OF engi'
neers. to the secretary of war has
been made public. lie 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 eInplacements for fourteen L.
inch, twenty-one 1O-inch and seven s.
inch guns, and eighty 12-inch mortars
to be distributed among Portland, Bos-
ton, New York, Philadelphia, Wash
ington, Hampton Roads, Charleston,
Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans and
San Francisco.
Gen. Craighi!l attaches much i'm
portance to the defense of forts by sub
marine mines, supplementing tho
artillery defense. With the small
funds in hand he has completed tTcn-
ty-tive classmates for the defense of the
Atlantic coast and San Francisco, and
is about to undertake the construction
OF one at Galveston. lie submits estI-
mates of $4,000 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,
600 Tor 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, 900 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-
'''S VI ShC IhlSoioDlP tl ohu -lAooouli
River commissions expenditures, the
sum of SIS, 40, 994, making the total for
the past two years $50, 904, 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 Il bill during a short
session of S2l, OI6, 1877. made up as fol-
lows: General improvements, l2,35S,-
600; continuing contract work, S5,044,-
597 this for expenditures in one year,;
Mississippi river commission, S2,665,-
900; Missouri river commission, $780,
900; examinations, surveys and %contin-
gencies, 5000, 600; special estimates sub
mitted by the Mississippi river COM
sion, SI,417, 600; special estimate sub
mitted by the Missouri river commits
sion, S16O, OOO.
OF the south pass Of the Mississippi,
it is said hat during the past fiscal
year the legal channel was maintained
at the head of the pass, and through
the pass itself, but during a period of
forty-three days such channel vas not
maintained through the j%etties.
Estimates for continuing the work on
the more important river and harbor
projects are submitted as follows, the
moun to be expended in the next
fiscal year:
Winaw bay. South Carolina, 100000: Santee
river, South Carolina, $4,000; Charleston har-
Dor, 10000 Savannah river, $1,000; Darien
harbor, Georgia, 81 900: Key West harbor,
sIO6 n n Tbnrlnttn harhOr ElOrida SO M
ChattahOoche river, $4,000; Pensacola harbor,
$4,000; Alabama river, SJ0.OO00: Coosa river,
between Rome and the Tennessee river bridge,
SlS7. 500; between Wetumpka and the same
bridge. S3I2.5OO; Mobile harbor. sl5O.OOO: Black
Warrior river. S10I.OO): Warrior and TOmbig-
bee, in Alabama and Mississippi. Sg6,OJO; Tom
b.gb-e. up 10 DemOpolis, S97 90: below Dem
OpoliS, s96 600: Bayou LafOurche. La, S2'.0J;
Bayou P~laquemine. si5O.OOO: Calca>ieu river.
$4,000: Sabine Pass. Tex, $4,000: Galveston
harbOr, 81 .6gO.OOO; Galveston ship channel.
slU0.rpO, Buffalo bayou. 1890: Red river,
Louisiana and Arkansas, si5O.OOO; Ouachita
and Black rivers. $4,000; YaZoO river, $4,000.
YazOo harbor. VickSburG. 1000 Arkansas
river. $4,000: White river, 10000; MISSISSIPPI
pi river. between Ohio and Missouri rivers,
s33.oOo; upper Mississippi river improvements,
s567 COO; lock and dam No. >, s25.0Ol: head
waters. reservoirs of the Mississippi. $4,000;
Missouri river above Sioux City, SlOO,OO): re-
moving SnagS in same. S5O.OD0: Cumberland
river. below Nashville. sl5O,UO; above, si50.OOO:
Tennessee river. $3.50 Ohio river, Si50!OO0:
Suagboats and dam No. 2. 5000; Herr
Island dam near Pittsburgh, $4,000: Green
river, above Big Barren. Ky, $4,000: Ken
tucky river. Kentucky. 100000: Big Sandy,
s30!0O0: Agate Bay harbor. Minnesota. SD.OO0,
Duluth harbOr. s1ayOOO: Superior bay and st.
Louis bay. $4,000; Ashland, Wis, $4,000;
Portage Lake and SUPERIOR canal. $1,000;
Grand Maria, 5000: PenSuakee harbor. Wis,
$50 0: Green Bay. $4,000: Sheboygan harbor,
s. .OOJ; Milwaukee Bay, S,OOO; Racine har-
Dor, S3nGD; Waukegan harbor, 20,-
0O): Calumet harbOr, 5000 Calumet
river. $4,000; Illinois river. $4,000;
Illinois and Mississippi canal. slJO.OOO;
Michigan City harbOr. $500; St Joseph har-
Dor. 5000: Grand harbor, 5000: MuSkegOn
haIbOr $4,000; CharlevOix harbor. s&5.OoO; Sag
inaw river, siO,OnO; Sand Beach. Mich. S90.0o;
ship channel between Chicago. Duluth and Buff
falo. 10000, Detroit river. $1,000: Toledo har-
Dor. s!5O.OOO. SanduSky, $4,000; Cleveland har-
Dor. $4,000; FairpOnt harbOr, $4,000: AShta-
bula harbor. 3 1900: Conneaut harOor. $4,000;
Dunkirk harbor. 10000: Buffalo. 100000;
T~onawanda harbor and Niagara river.
5000: Oswego harbor. $4,000; Ogdensburg
harbor. $4,000: Oakland harbor, Cal. $1,000;
San Luis Obispo. Cal. $4,000; San Diego har-
Dor. $4,000: san Joaquin river. $4,000: Hum
boldt harhor and bay. s415J00): Coos Bay. Ore,
sg5. 600: Yaquina Bay, s25.OOo; SuiStaw river,
Ore, $500 Upper Snake river. $4,000;
Olympia harbor. $1,000: Columbia and Lower
Willamette river, sl79.O0O; Cascades canal,
slOO.OOO; Willamette river, above Portland