The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-27
RIVER AND HARR0R SURVEYS.
Reports of Army ofaeers Detailed TO
the Work.

WASHINGTON. April 27, 1Ss5-Letters
from the Chief of Engineers. submitting
reports of engineer officers upon surveys
of rivers and harbors. and transmitted
to Congress by the Secretary of War,
are beginning to come from the Public
Printer They are often interesting and
lxepe aA1teh hseaQ aQsss a q n form
the basis Of ACTION Dy the RI 0EsS and Har-
Dor Committee, of the House, in prepar-
ing their bi-annual appropriation bills.
Charles w. L. B. Davis reports that
Harris Creek prong of Black River, Va.
is worthy of Improvement, the estimated
cost of the sum being $490. The trade
of the district is estimated at ten thou
sand tons and the number of people to
be benefited. 1000.
The further improvement of Whining
ton Harbor, Gala. IS estimated by Lieut.
Col. w. H. II. Benyaurd to cost 1882,
725. This would give channel width at
the entrance of $50 feet and proposed
depth of IS feet
A survey of North Best (Cape Fear)
River, N. c.. from the old county ferry
to Juniper swamp, or creek, north of
Hilton Railroad bridge, by Major NJ.
S. Stanton, swows that a channel of 100
feet width can be dredged for $4,000. SO
that at mean low water vessels of 16 and
IL feet draft can navigate the portion of
the river surveyed.
As result Of f. the survey of Cana Cana
Thomas H. Handbury, he states that
there IS no improvement worthy of the
serious consideration of the General
Government that can be made at tnis
locality other than the construction OF. q
breakwater to protect vessels from the
violence of storms, and he estimates that
| a breakwater two and a half miles In
length will cost 81, ,46O,27o. He also sub
mits plan for. protection of smaller
area WHICH = might accommodate sod twenty, {,
of this structure at s4,O9l ,ol9 But such
a refuge. he remarks eonsiderlng . the
isfactory.
Major Tfanbury also surveyed st. Johns
| River from Jacksonville. to the ocean,
with a view to securing an increase OF
| the depth OF the channel to "a feet. The
| plan submitted by Major Hanbury con-
TEMPLATES the dredging i, Of Shannel 800 goo
shoals and the construction of training
dikes in the river proper at an estimated
| cost of 100000; also the extension Of the
mouth. 1,500 feet and 500 feet, respective
! iy, and the raising of these jetties
throughout their entire lengths to the
| depth of "a feet over the bar at an esti-
| mated cost of s1.3o9,75o. in all s2109,75o0.
In Forwarding the sur, survey for approval,
4 . L
states that the conmerci1 interests in
volved amply Justify such an expendi-
ture Of money as the estimates call for
| Bayou Macon, above Lloyd, Ark, is not
| worthy of Improvement, and his views
division engineer. and Gen. Casey, chief
1 of engineers.
! The River and Harbor act of August IL,
| 1894. provides for a survey at Port Ok
| ford, Oregon, with view to improving
| the same for shipping purposes and as a
Capt. r. ". Symonds. to whom the
/ survey was assigned. reports that Port
| Oxford is openI to the ocean from tht
storms, and that 9 harbcr of refuge as
| proposed cannot be secured. The con
| poses will cost, according to the manner
of construction. either 1914, 454 or s511. .754
! But Col. @. H. Mendell, division engi-
/ neer, states that in his opinion the con
| struction OF piers, as proposed. would mo-
| improve the harbor to any great extent.