Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-20
COMPLETED BY Spring.
Engineering Work On the River Pro-
crossing Rapidly.
WORK COMPLETED TO WHEEL
ING-THE OHIO VALLEY M
P~ROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
OPENS THEIR SESSION AT
LQUISvILLE-THE PRESIDENTS
ADDRESS-OTHER RIVER ITEMS.

ADDRESS-OTHER RIVER ITEMS.
The following information has been
received from William Martin, resident
engineer in charge Of the Upper Ohio
river, with headquarters at Pittsburg.
regarding river Improvements:
Behring'S have been made from the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad bridge
to the Suspension bridge, having refer
ence to needed dredging in the stretch
of river. A survey was made between
M and three miles below Bellaire,
with a view to locating dam No. 13, the
exact location of which cannot be defin-
itely settled until the maps are made
and the preliminary work performed.
This dam will be located with a view
to make a harbor for the cities of
Bellaire, Benwood, Wheeling, Bridge
port and Martins Ferry, making a pool
between eight and nine miles in length,
whose minimum depth of water will be
six feet. All the preliminary work for
this dam will probably be ready by next
spring, and the commencement of
actual work will depend on future Con-
gressional action.
The preliminary work down as far as
Bellaire has been completed. A corps
of engineers are at work both above
and below.
A Louisville, KY, dispatch says: Sew
eral hundred delegates assembled at the
Gait House yesterday morning at the
opening of the fifth annual convention
of the Ohio Valley Improvement Asso-
citation. After the temporary organiza-
ton, addresses of welcome and re-
sponses, the permanent organization
was completed, with John L. Vance, OF
Gallipolis, in the chair. In his annual
address President Vance summed up
the work already accomplished by the
Association as follows:
"By concentration of the influences
of the various associations interested
in Western navigation, legislation was
secured, and the emancipation of the
Monongahela from a tax onerous to
every dweller of the Mississippi valley
was accomplished; the principle of
contracts for continuous improvement.
introduced before Congress, and con
stantly advocated, has become a recog-
nized rule of our government in dealing
with the Ohio river waterway; the com
pletion OF the Davis Island lock and
dam, establishing a perpetual harbor
the year round, available to the entire
harbor front of Pittsburg and Allegheny
and adjacent industrial cities, has been
followed by a degree of industrial and
commercial prosperity unriyaled in the
history of our country; the determine
ton to establish similar locks and dams,
at points Immediately below Davis ISL
and, and legislation by the last Con-
gress providing for two more locks and
dams, one below Wheeling and be-
low Marietta, and the appropriation OF
funds for this purpose, affords assur-
ance of the Inauguration of a like era
oil prosperity upon the Ohio river as
far south as Marietta. The %appropria-
ton of funds for a survey of the Ohio
river, which is now in progress, VIII
enable the location and recommended
ton of similar dams to provide contin-
uous water as far south as the Big
Miami"
President Vance was followed by a
number of delegates, who made ad-
dresses favoring the improvement Of the
Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cairo, and
many resolutions were offered.
TO-MORROW'S BOATS.