Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-04

| 900; Light vessel of Cape Mendocino
Cal, $4,000; light and fog signal sta
ton. mouth Columbia river Oregon
$4,000; same, Burrows Island, Wash
ington $4,000 same Semlahmoo,
Washington, S25 OO0
Important Increases IN appropriations
are asked for Improvements and exten-
slons Of the following navy yards and
naval stations;
For the navy yard at Portsmouth, n.
H., $500 900. increase, nearly $500, 900:
navy yard at Boston, Sl91S,30O. increase,
about $4,000; naval station, New
London, $4,000, increase $4,000; navy
yard Brooklyn, A,977O0O, increase near
ly 100000, navy yard League Island,
Penna. 81, 963O92. increase, Sl.663, 600.
navy yard Washington, 1876. OH increase,
$50 900, navy yard Norfolk, Va, $780,
900, increase. $1,000 900. naval station
Port Royal, 5. G., $3.50 900, increase, SS5, .
900; naval station, Key West $4,000;
naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico,
S525,OOO; navy yard Pensacola, Fla,
s2eboO; naval reservation, Algiers, La,
$4,000: navy yard, Mare Island. Cal.
Sll52,700, naval station. Puget Sound,
Wash, S22S,065; dredging Dry Tortugas,
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Havana, Cuba. $1,000. dry dock al AL
giers, La. S650.0o0; toward completion
OF dry docks at Portsmouth, y. H.,
100000 Boston, 100000; League Island,
100000; Mare Island 100000
For buildings for cadets quarters at
the naval academy at Annapolis, not 10
exceed In total cost 1855 0OO-sS50, 900
power house naval academy; 100000
storage warehouse. work shops. etc, at
naval academy, S2O0,0 600. continuation Of
sea wall at naval academy, 100000
foundations for gun battery and bea-
cons. $4,000; brick subway, $1,000; for
purchase of land adjacent TO academy.
$1,000; for four new double houses,
ST. 900.
For purchase OF additional land ad-
jacent 20 government hospital for in
sane at Washington s2i5,OOO, construc-
ton OF gun and mortar batteries in
Guiding works. defense OF ports at
Porto Rico. pneumatic dynamite bat
teries, etc. S5.9s0O00. installation Of
range and position finders $4,000:
sites for Notifications and sea coast
100000; armament OF fortihcations ST.
ele.OSs: total amount asked for fortihca-
lions and other works OF defense ST.
72S.9SS, for the construction OF build
ings az military posts, barracks, etc.
for artillery in connection with project
for sea coast defense s., 900. 600; for con-
struction OF ice plants at military posts
In Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines 100000; Improvement OF
Yellowstone National park $4,000
Chickamauga and Chattanooga Ma
tional parks 100000; Gettysburg Ma
tional park 100000: Shiloh National
Military park $4,000; Vicksburg Ma
tional park $4,000.
Among the river and harbor improve
ments estimated for under continuous
contracts on which the sum asked for is
100000 or more, are the following.
Oakland Cal. harbor $4,000: San
Francisco harbor $4,000 San Pedro.
Cal, harbor 100000, Everett. Wash,
harbor $4,000; Grays harbor, Wash,
s3i5OOO.
Also the following river and harbor
Mouth OF Brazos river,
Texas, $500 900: Lower Willamette river
below Portland, Ore, 100000; Columbia
river at the Cascades. ore, $4,000:
water way connecting Puget sound
with Lakes Union and Washington,
100000.
Also ha.bor Improvements as follows:
San Diego, Cal, 100000; San Luis Obs
pc, Cal, $685.
The total amount estimated for under
the title OF public works is SIC, il6, 225, as
against $40, 603, 46G, the amount Of the
current appropriations.