Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-10-30
RIVER AND HARBOR
WORK IN THE SOUTH
Several Million Dollars to Be
Spent on improvements.
WILSON'S ANNUAL REPORT

First Section Deals With the Subject
of Commercial Defense-Second Es-
Inmates the Cost of Work on South
ern Streams and Ports.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The impor-
tant subject of commercial defense is
the one considered in the annual report
of J. M. Wilson, chief of engineers.
Generally speaking, he reports most
gratifying progress in the execution of
various projects during the last fiscal
year. Because the report included the
fiscal year only, the subject of the de-
struction of the Galveston defenses by
the September hurricane is left for
treatment in a subsequent report.
The second section of the report treats
of the river and harbor systems of the
country of which estimates for the fiscal
year ending 1909, aggregate 800, 900, 900.
The estimates above $4,000 for river
and harbor works next year are as fol-
lows:
Winyah bay, S. O., 1926, 900; Santee
river, S. O., $38, 900; Congaree river, S.
O., Columbia to CRANKY, $4,000;
Charleston harbor, $50, 900; Savannah
harbor, $1,000; Savannah river, $780,
900; Dobey bar, Ca, $50, 900; Altamaha
river, Ga, $26, 900; Ocmulgee river, Ca,
$4,000; Cumberland sound, Ca, and
Florida, $4OO, 900; St. Johns river, Fla,
$500, 900; St. Johns river, at Orange
Mills Flats, Fla, $4,000; Key West
harbor, Fla, 100000; Saratoga river,
Fla, $87 900; Tampa bay, Fla, $137, 900;
Hillsboro bay, Fla SITS, 900; Apalachi-
cola bay, Fla. $41 900; Flint river, Ga. +,
$50, 900; Chattahoochee river, Ca, and
Alabama below Columbus, $50, 900; Pen
sacola harbor, Fla, $4,000; Coosa
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail-
road, $45, 900; Coosa river, between the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad bridge and Wetumka, Ala,
$50, 900; Mobile harbor, Ala, $3.50, 900;
Black Warrior river, Ala, $50, 675; War
rior and Tombigbee rivers, 1856, 900;
Tombigbee river from its mouth to De-
mopolis, $2o0,000; Bayou Plaquemine,
Grand river and Pigeon bayou, La,
$4,000; mouth and passes of Cal
sieu river, La. $165, 900; harbor of Sa-
bine Pass, Tex, $4,000 Galveston
harbor, $4,000; Galveston ship canal
and Buffalo bayou, Tex. $500, 900;
mouth of Brazos river, $4,000; Brazos
river, between Velasco and Richmond
$3.50, 900; Arkansas Pass, Tex, $3.50, 000;
Red river, La, Ark, and l. T., $l35, 900;
Ouachita and Black rivers, Ark, and
La, $4,000; Yazoo river, Miss, $780,
900; mouth of the Yazoo and the Vicks-
burg harbor, Miss, $4,000; moving
distractions, Arkansas river, $50, 900;
improving Arkansas river, $50, 900; Up
per White river, Ark, 100000; Missis-
sippi river between Ohio and Missouri
rivers, $3.50, 900; Mississippi river be-
tween Missouri river and ST. Paul, MINI.
$500, 900; Mississippi river between St.
Paul and Minneapolis, 1857, O00reservoirs
headwater of Mississippi river 1922, 800;
Missouri river, between Stubs Ferry,
Mon, and Sioux City, Ia, 5000, 900:
Cumberland river, Tenn, and KY,
below Nashville, $500, 900; Cumberland
river, above Nashville, 100000; Ten
nessee river, above Chattanooga, $780,
600; Tennessee river, below Chattanoo-
ga, $50, 900; Ohio river, $400, 900; NOV
able dams, Ohio river, $525. 900; Big
Sandy river, w. Va, $2ll 200; Kentucky
river, KY, $150,000; the falls of the
Ohio river ct Louisville, Sal, 900.
The estimates under the Mississippi
river commission are SIS, 8Y0,000 and in
clude the following:
Harbor at New Orleans, $500 900; Red
and Atachafalaya rivers, $4,000; Nat
chez harbor and Vidalia harbor, $780,
600; Memphis harbor, 100000.