Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-30

$50 rapid fire guns n about 900 NOR
tars at an approximate total cost oil
$50, OOO, 900. Up to the present time pro-
vision has been made for the empiace-
ment of 800 heavy guns. 1858 rapid fire
guns and 372 mortars. The armameGs
placed during the war in temporary
em~placements will be transferred III
time to permanent works, but the tenn
porary work will be held in reserve
for an emergency.
Attention is invited to the urgent
need for an increase of the arttilery
arm of the service, which Is now TOO
small to take care of the costly ana
complex defense works. During the
past year negotiations have been Ill
progress for the acquiition of fortihca-
ton sites in Boston harbor, Narragan-
sett Bay 1.-TWO ~sites), New York harbor
extension of Fort Wadsworth). Pot
Royal, South Carolina, San Francisco
and Rich Passage, Puget Sound, but
the proceedings are slow, owing &c
legal difficulties. The most important
sites are those at Boston and II IN
New York harbor rendered necessary
by the construction of h propose
deep water entrance.
The second section of the report
treats of the river and harbor improve
ments of the country for which estl-
mates for the fiscal year ending 1907,
aggregate $50, 900. 900, are submitted, to
which are added 5000 900 for surveys
contingencies. IS, $50, 900 for the Mlssis-
sippi river commission. $1.O4O,ooo under
the Missouri river commission, Sl5.OoO
under the California debris commission
and SIS. 900 to prevent deposits in New
York harbor The expenditures for the
wear ending 1900, were $1S,4S 900, which
does not include s125, 900 paid the Eads
estate for maintaining the ~jetties at the
mouth of the Mississippi, and $4,000 fol
surveys and extensions for a canal from
the great lakes to the lan n
report is a review of all the work done
during the fiscal year and refers es-
pecially to a lumber of important sub
jects. including the Chicago drainage
canal and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. OF
the Chicago drainage project the report
says that all the interests affected can
not be satisfied and the subject must be
referred to ongres for ultimate settle
ment. AS to the lowering Of the water
level of the lakes, General Wilson says
that Investigations made under tine
direction of the deep waterway COM
mission any by other may furnish data
upoll ~ - AZ
question may be based.
Among the estimates abo re $25.000 for
the river and harbor works next year
are the following:
Missouri river, between Stubs Ferry,
Mont, and Sioux City, Ia, $50, 900: San
Diego harbor, Cal. $23S, 900: San Pedro
harbor, Cal, $3.50. 900: San Luis Otispo
harbor, Cal, $75. 900; Coquille river, Ore,
SCI. 900. SiuSlaw river, Ore, 1885, $50: canal
at Cascades, Columbia river. Ore $780,
OOO;O Willamette river, above Portland,
Ore, $50, 0OO; Columbia river III lower
Willamette, below Portland, Ore, 1925.
900: mouth of the Columbia river. Ore.
and Washington, $500 900; Grays Har-
Dor, Wash, 1926, 900; ~uget Sound and
tributary waters. $25. 900; Olympia har-
Dor, 2 5000; waterway connecting Puget
Sound with lakes Union and Washing
ton, 1925, 900: Snohomish slough, Wash.
$50, 900; Everett harbor, $50, 900.
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