New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-23
HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.
THE LAST YEARS WORK IN NETWORK
AND NEW-JERSEY
Inv TEIEGRApH no THE TRIBUNE. ]

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
Washington July 22-Colonel ]. w. Barlow. OF
the Corps of Engineers, reports the state or I'M
provements in the harbors and streams of parts OF
New-York and New-Jersey substantially as foi-
lows:
Examinations were made of Woodbridge Creek,
fTem @ Won nr' Rn N To or Ra Bay Passac
River, Taneytown Harbor and saugertles hare Sn.o
TroT e down stream to coxsacke to pro
vide navigation with twelve foot channel 100 ieet
Troy; thence gradually Increasing in width to 400
feet at the foot of Broadway, Troy thence 400
depth and width Of channel, No contracts were
W Il force at the g. on he
Kirk Drisco Co, Syracuse, for Iqrns mn go IuP
Of oe fed and casedn bikes began
on October "a and November Is, respectively , hairs
the winter all secured and passed through or m
the spring without injury Pile driving was c 200
and the driver is employed in making repairs on on
the New Baltimore and Barren Island dikeS ;,,, AT
Island dixie had been completed The details Of
this important work are too extended Tor adnd
channel is generally maint aiming its depth put , on
OF the bars there eca has eeH or @ ice dams
Between Casteton and Albany the channel IS Yen,
orally twelve feet deep and more S VII" deptb OF the
through channel has been reduced to 100 feet az
Willow Island shoal with width OF aDN Gib 1 oT
loo feet Between Albany and the foot OF Broad Broad
way Troy VIII two apglSg in Width from 80
feet In front Of the WateT r IGo f6 AfseP Nd
the is feet bse Win done er the Of
Broadway, Troy, and the State dam ana tne
ysaD Se f9Sn o IS / s SHne The dredrns
Albany and Troy seems TO be very M yeags
e eafrd Is E sSGs is a So IS fhs total oq%msTss
s. ss4 in 1885 s4O45s95 In addition. there were
77is6 passengers and through commerce down the
There was onIy a survey at Saueertes That In
dicated that the bikes maintain the channel put
since 1850 the expenditures on Rondout. Harbor
have been applied 70 maintenance simply No work
were received as to insufficient depth Of channel;
No work was done at Peekskill except to make
eept for an accident to the contractors plant
On the Passaic. preparations 10 resu June ouId
be obtained and specifications prepared chan;
mel Of the proposed width has been dredged az
OF operations The total Of appropriation Is siSS
on the channel between Staten Island and New;
Jersey no work was done. The width OF channel
has been reduced but depth of fourteen feet has has
been PRACTICALLY ms s tai Inc 10 adSpG so
900 for tonnage Of vessels brought to shipyards
along the waterway hauea out iba and @ no avail
able fund at Elizabeth There has probably been
a deterioration In the channel 49,
No work was done on the Raritan River or Mata-
wan Greek Keyport Harbor Shoal Harbor and
Compton Greek. on South River an examination
The only work Rartan BY was survey IN
the vicinity OF South Apboy and Seguine Point
the dredged channels to decide where the
available funds should be expended the tonnage
wan Creek were advertised for. and contract was
made with William II. Taylor. jr. OF Jersey CITY,
but at the close OF the year 1t had not received the
approval of the Department. The same statement
Is made as TO Keyport A contract for dredging
Shoai Uarbor and Compton Creek was sent to the
Department Shrewsbury River was surveyed be
low the Highlands bridge contract for redredg-
ing the channel had not been returned by the War
Department at the close Of the year. On the
pare specifications for the construction and repair
Of bikes.