The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-16
PREPARED PROJECTS.
ANNUAL REPORT OFF THE CHIEF
OF ENGINEERS.
General CraighiII Attaches Much
Importance to the Defense of Our
Forts BY Submarine Mines-Some
Figures.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15-Ti.e annual
report of General Craighill, chief of egin-
GERS, 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 Phil
adelphia,. Key West, San Diego. me
mouth of the Columbia river G2 weston
and Puget Sound.
Allotments have been made during the
year for implacement for fourteen u
inch; twenty-one 10-inch and seven S-inch
gums and eighty Finch mertars, to be
distributed among Portland, Boston,
New York, Washington, Hampton Roads.
Charleston, Pensacola, Mobile, New Or
leans and San Francisco. General Craig
hill attaches much Importance to the
defense of forts by submarine mines sup
plementing the artillery defense. With
the small funds in hand, he has completed
twenty-five easements for the defense OF
the Atlantic coast and San Francisco and
is about to undertake the construction of
one at Galveston, He submits estimates
of $4,000 for additional easements and
$4,000 for the purchase of submarine
mines and appliances.
The general states that the appropria-
ton for the preservation and. repair of
fort Qualifications is entirely inadequate
and suggests an increase OF the appropr1a-
ton. AS the appropriation of $l50,000 for
the acquisition of sites for the coast de-
gansett Bay, Baltimore and Charleston,
he requests an additional appropriation
of 100000 for the procurement of other
sites.
river and harbor improvements under
continuous contracts for which appropria-
tons have been made in the sundry civil
acts.
The financial statement shows there was
expended on rivers and harbors during
the past fiscal year, exclusive of the
Mississippi and Missouri river &C Eom r Il nh,
SionS expenditures, the sum OF SIS, AID 1874,
ma total
$50, 904,0S4.
Estimates are submitted in lump for the
next two years, which General Cralghlll
believes is necessary in order to conform
to the practice of congress in failing to
pass a bill during a short session, OF
S21O15 1877, made up as follows:
sippi liver commission, 81, 667 500; Missouri
river commission, $3.50, 900; examinations,
surveys and contingencies, $2Oo, 900; special
commission, $1,417000; special estimates
submitted by the Missouri river commits
sion S16O000. OF the South Pass of the
fiscal year the legal channel was main
through the pass itself; but during a
period of forty-three days such cnannei
was not maintained through the jettys
Estimates for continuing the work on
the more important river, and harbor pro
iects are submit ted as follows, the amount
to be EXPENDED Ill inc HcAI nSSdl ga
tom w ssh 1iaaT s10oo0o; Key West harbor,
Sl25,OOO; Pensacola harbor, $500, 900; Coosa
river Mobile iw arpor sa9 9o So hne
Pass. Texas, $4,000; Galveston harbor,
S1,690,0O0; Galveston ship ch IAN c 500 OOOi
Yazoo harbor, Vicksburg' S2gS 70 200. Num- m
erous other rivers and naroors IN the
southern states, $4,000.
Mississippi river between Ohio and
Missouri rivers, S3999 000 operations of snag
boats on upper Mississippi river and i'm
movements, $567 00O lock and dam NO, =
s25 600: headwaters reservoirs OF the
Mississippi. $4,000; Missouri river above
Sioux City. 100000: removing snags IN
same. S5OO00 Cumberland river, below
Nashville, S150,000; above, Sd5o,uOo.IenIes.
see river, s4S5, 900; Ohio $45O,OOo; snag boats
and dam No. 2. $4,000; Herr Island near
Pittsburg $4,000: Kentucky river, ken-
lucky $780, 900; Agate Bay h ar Mill,
100000; Duluth harbor, SEWN oo6. Supgalod5
Wis SIS ooO Illinois and Missls,siippl canal T;1,
iuth and Buffalo, $500 OOO e1 Tol 6Sd hare9Io
Si00 400 Numerous other rivers a arnd d par
slou in lake and central states, $s9e,oOo
Oakland harbor. CAL; Slo00oo; San , LUIS
Obispo Cal, $4,000; San Diego Die go. harDor,
f Sodf harbor and bay, SAT, 900; o Coos pay y,
p CUe' so. 600: Yanuina bay, $25, 900; SulstaW
, 1Ie.. Ore $4,000; upper Snake river
sas 0no. OLYMPIA harbor, $4,000; Co d
s s,,d 1ower willamette river, STE, Sas
cade canal, 500 600; willamette river apoV
Portland, 100000.