The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-22
MONEY FOR RIVERS
CHIEF OF ENGINEERS SUBMITS HIS
ANNUAL REPORT TO THE
SECRETARY.
MINNESOTA FARES WELL.
LIBERAL ESTIMATES FOR DULUTH
HARBOR AND FOR THE Up
PER MISSISSIPPI.
THE TWIN CITY LOCK- AND DAM.
An Item of Nearly Four Hundred
Thousand Dollars Included
for This Project.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Gen Will
son, chief of the engineers of the army,
has made his annual report to the Sec
retary of war. 1t is devoted to the for
tiffcations and river and harbor i'm
prcvements of the country. The esti-
mates for coast defenses for the years
1S9S-99 are as follows: Gun and mortar
batteries, $4,000, 900; purchase of land
for Notifications, 100000; protection,
preservation and repair of fortihca,
tions, 100000; preparation of plans for
Notifications, $4,000; sea walls and EN-,
bankments, $55, ,OOO torpedoes for har-
Dor defense: For the purchase of SUBJ
marine mines and necessary appli-
ances to operate them for closing the
channels leading to our principal sea-
ports, for needful casemates, cable gal.
leries, etc, to render it possible to ops
crate submarine mines, $3.50, ,0O0 Total,
$5,810O00
Gen. Wilson says that during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1897, there
was expended on river and harbor i'm
provements $13,461, 659. For the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1S99 his estimates
are: Continuous work authorized by
congress, $1S,876, ,O07: for other work not
provided for by continuing contracts,
$29, ,452, 153 The principal estimates in
detail follow:
Mississippi River-Removing snags,
100000 Improvements between Ohio
and Missouri rivers, 100000; between
Missouri river and Minneapolis, $685.
666; lock and dam between ST. Paul
and Minneapolis, $780,, ,357; reservoir al
the headwaters, $4,000. For improv-
ing the Mississippi river from head OF
the passes to the mouth of Ohio river,
including salaries and clerical office,
travelling and miscellaneous expensea
of the Mississippi river commission,
1888, 1888; for improving harbor at New
Madrid Mo-, $4,000; Memphis, Tenn,
$4,000; Helena, Ark, $4,000; Green
vile, Miss, 100000; Delta Point, La,
$317 900; New Orleans, $3OO,OOO; for i'm,
provement at head of Atchafalaya and
mouth of Red river, La, $3O,O0O Total
50, ,996, ,333
Missouri river above Sioux City, To-,
$706,675; Missouri river under the cons
mission, $90O,OOO; Usage river under
Missouri commission, $15O,OOO
Minnesota-Duluth harbor, 81 ,102,776
Red River of the North, $37, 800; Agate
bay, ST. 708.
Tennessee ee-Cumberland river below
Nashville, $50O,OOO; Cumberland river
above Nashville. $1,000 Tennessee
river above Chattanooga, $65,OOO; Ten
nessee river below Chattanooga, $2,O00,-
600; Little Pigeon river, 100000.
Ohio-Ohio river and Muskingum
river, $1,000,O00; movable dams, Ohio
river, $595,00O; Indiana chute Ohio
river, $241 947; Toledo harbor, $500, ,00Ol
Sandusky harbor, s1S5,000; Huron har-
Dor. $4,000; Black river harbor, $38,500;
Cleveland harbor $45O,OOO Fairport
harbor, $3.50, 900; Ashtabula harbor,
$3.50, 900; Conneaut harbor, $495, 900.
New YOrk-Buffalo harbor $618750.
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Locks and dams, Monongahela river,
$387 500: Allegheny river $25 900; locks
and dams, Herr island, Allegheny river,
$35O,000.
Kentucky-Green river, sS5673; Ken
tGcky river, 1891, ,OCO
Illinois-Chicago river, $4O0, 600; Calu-
met harbor 100000; Calumet river,
s25O, O,OOO; Illinois river s375,OOO; Illinois
and Mississippi canal 81 $50 480.
California-Oakland harbor $163. 500 San Luis
Obispo harbor $150O00; San Diego harbor,
$la @.4C; 400; Humbqldt Ga'1S harbor $1O0 NGO Ooo
guile river, $2S, coo; Coos Bay, $6OO, 900; Sn-
slow river. 100000; Tillamook bay, $4,000;
Columbia river. below Tongue Point $71,55O;
Columbia river and lower Willamette river,
$500, 900; canal at Cascades, 3S4,26O.
Washington-Gray's harbor, S430, 600; Puget
sound, $25 600; Everett harbor, $780, 000 Vino
mish slough, Sal, 900.
Michigan-Marquette harbor, 200; Har-
Dor of Refuge, Marquette bay, $4,000; Har-
Dor Of Refuge, Grand Marias, 500, 900; Stur-
geon bay ship canal, $63, 900; ST. JoseSh's
harbor, 500 600; Manistee harbor, $50 coo; Har-
Dor of Refuge, Portage lake, $1600OO; Hay
Lake channel, s494 116; Harbor of Refuge
Sand Beach, $3.50, 600; Detroit river S91, ,257.
Wisconsin-Ashland harbor; 800, 900; Green
bay harbor, $50, 900; Sheboygan harbor $26.-
600; Harbor of Refuge. Milwaukee, $155, $50;
Kenosha harbor, $4,000; Fox river 100000