Evening journal., 1896-01-21
RIVER COSTS MONEY.
Complete Statement in Brief
OF What Has Been Done.
INTERESTED IN OPENING STREAM

other Happenings About the Town
Phosphate Manufacturing Concern to
Make Il a shipping PoInt-Threo Ply
sIcisns Perform Dimeult Operation.
Athletes Engage In Pool Playing.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
NEW CASTLE, Jan. 81 Nearly every
riverside resident is deeply interested In
the continued tforts for river improve
ment. To morrow the Philadelphia
Joint Executive Committes on the
Improvement OF the Delaware river
composed OF representatives. from tbe
B1aTd OF Trade the Commercial, Mari.
time. Grocers and Importers aud Drug
Exchanges the Manufacturers Club
Board Of Port Wsrdens and the HGrbcr
Commissioners, and committees from the
Master Builders Exchange and Trades
League, viii appear bsfor the River ami
Harbor Committee OF Congress to urge
liberal appropris ionB.
The report on the work OF improving
the Delaware river sets forth the pre- ject
adopted ia 1885. providing for the
systematic Improvement Of the river by
the formation ofa channel % feet deep At
lowlwater and 600 feet wide; at All points
where q less depth and width exist.
between deep water IN Delaware bay and
Philadelphia. to be effic.ed By diking,
dredging and rock removal The
estimated cost was 50. 425 900. With an
annual cost OF maintenance OF 10 per
cent for dredged channels and 1 per
cent. for dykes To the end Of the last
fiscal year 1920. 9i3 09 had been expended
on the work, and there was al available
balance at the end Of the month Of
$35 6S7 81
The following work has been executed:
A high water dixie 4500 feet In length has
been constructed on Fishers Point;
dixie 7945 feet in length raised above
high water over length OF 1857 feet and
to Low water over the remaining distance,
has been constructed at Millln Bar;
high water dixie 4C63 feet In length has
been constructed at Bulkhead Bar, and a
dixie TO be 26. $50 feet IN length has been
constructed to the level Of low water for
a distance of $500 feet at Reedy Island
and is now under contrsct for extension.
Those dikes have been repaired when
necessary The Total length Of dlkes
constructed uuder the project Is % SOS
feet or a little more than four miles The
channel has been improved or maintained
Richmond. Mihlln Bar, Schooner Ledge,
Cherry Island Flats and Bulkkead Bar
ana BY rock removal at OILS street wharf
and Schooner Ledge.
At Cherry Island Flats there was be
fore Improvement a depsh less than 20
feet At mean low water over leug OF
10 500 feet and q minimum depth Of 1S
feet Ihore Is now a depth less that 90
feet at mean low water over a length of
$500 feet and minimum depth Of 1871
feet
At Bulkhead Bar there was before
Improvement depth less than 90 Feat Al
mean low water over length Of z 300
feet and minimum depth Of 20 feet
There is now a depth OF 96 feet &c mean
low wster over the whole length
At Rssdy Island the dixie has net yet
been sufficiently extended to produce
bene fclal results
The total length Of the channel i'm.
proved is 25 470 feet or nearly Eve miles
The total length improved to full depth
is Is 22O feet, or about nearly three and
one-quarter miles. At other localities
the distance across the bars has do
creased through natural csusss, the
aggregate decrease In length being 4, 100
fast