The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23
FOR RIVERS lind RARBORS
ED IT'S WORK ON THE
MEASURE
TOTALS UP TO. $eo,OOo,ooo
Provision for the Mississippi BE-
tween st. Paul and st. Louis Pro-
vides 100000 Cash and
100000 Contracts.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The river and
harbor bill has been completed and
Chairman Burton gave out statement
showing the amounts appropriated The
total is approximately $50, 900 900, of which
about S23, coo is in direct appropriations
and about $37 900 in the authorization
of contracts for continuous work. Com,
pared with former bills the present one
is the second largest on record and after
the senate has added amendments it is
expected to be we'll up to- If not ahead
of all previous records. The bill Of 1900
carried $50, 95S, 165, and that of 1897, which
was the largest on record, carried Sc, 275,-
954
The appropriations and contracts over
SEE, coo for the Western states, and the
largest items shown for the Eastern
states in the statement are as follows:
HarborS-
Massac harbor, new
project, cash $500, 900; contract, $SOQ0,0OO
- Boston harbor, general Improvement
$4,000.
ara river cash $257, 100; Butternilk chan
mel, cash 100000; contract, 81, 100000.
Buffalo, at Erie basin and Black har-
Dor, cash 200, 000; contract, ssh, SAB
Pennsylvania-Erie, cash $4,000.
Maryland = Spring Garden, Southwest
Baltimore, cash sS8 900; contract, $221, coo.
XirginGi ia ~ ooo Norfolk. Naval Hegpital
Ground bar, Newport News, cash SO, 900;
contract, $215 900.
Georgia a. new project, con
AiabamaEMooiIe, cash 5000
Lousianaa-Southwest Pass, Mississippi
river, cash $550,500; contracts, 81, $50, 900
Galveston harbor, cash $5G060O;
Sabine Pass cash 100000; Arkansas
Pass, cash $3.50 900; Sabine Pass extern
oRio~AshtabUIa cash $4,000; Cleveland,
cash $63O,0OO; contract, s. 100000; CIeve-
land harbor dredging. cash $125, 800; Fair
port, cash $3.50, 900; Huron, cash, G@5 SEQ;
Sandusky, cash $10G,O9O; Conneaut cash
$4,000; contract 1912, 0j0
1llinois.W aukegan, cash 100000; con
Michigan : Frankfort, $4,000 cash;
Grand Marais harAor of refuge, cash $70,-
0O0 Manistee, cash $4,000; Holland, Black
Lake. cash $4,000; Muskegon, cash SIS
Coo; Portage Lake refuge, cash S33,St0;
Marquette, cash $4,000; contract, $8DOC0;
Ludington, cash $4,000; contract SlS5,GCO
isconsin-Milwauixee, harbor of ref
Milwaukee harbor, cash SOL 090
Sheboygan, cash $50 200; Sheboygan,
new. project, cash $4S, 100; Ashland, cash
Sturgeon Bay & Lake Michigan ship
canal, cash $73,500; contracts, $178 900.
Manitowoc breakwater, cash $37, 000
Port Wing-Cash, $4,000.
Mimi Observation-Disclosures Bay cash. $780,
coo; contract, $217,S50; San Luis Obospi,
cash, $4,000.
oregon-TiIimocl. bay and bar, cash,
$4,000.
bington-Olympia harbor, cash, s25,-
Geo; Tacoma, cash, $4,000.
New York-Hudson river. cash. 5000 400.
E8s river and Hellgate, cash, $200, 600
Observation-Disclosures River, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, cash, 5000 600;
cash, 100000; contract, 81 900
$4,000
Dirglnia7 James river, cash, $4,000
and Alabama, below Columbus, $S5 00O
Florida-St. JOINTS river, from Jack
sonville to Ocean Springs, cash, 3250, 900;
contract, $3.50, 000
TeXas-Galyeston ship canal and Buff
falo bayou, $4,000 cash; contract, S30G, 900.
RTaZOs river, between Velasco and Rich
mond, cash, $4,000.
Grand River, $125,0l0 cash; Detroit, cash,
100000: contract. 81, 250, COO; st. Clair at
canal, cash, $3.50, eco; West Nebish, cash,
$500, 600; contract $4,000 0G0
Wisccnsin-Fox river, cash, $50 900
lllinoiS-Calumet river, Illinois and In
diana cash $4,000; Illinois river, cash
$4,000; survey, deep waterway, cash $780,
Mississippi NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at Head
waters, cash 100000; river from head of
the passes to the mouth Of the Ohio, cash
81, O0,000; contracts, $5,000,000
Harbor at New Orleans, cash $4,000:
harbor at NatcheZ, Miss, cash 1890;
1ectification Of Red and Atchafalaya riv-
ers, cash, S25, 600.
BBarbor at Memphis, Tenn, $1,000.
Between Missouri river and St. Paul,
Mimi, cash $1,000, 900; contracts, 81, geo O0O'
Missouri River-General Improvement
between Sioux City and the mouth, cash
$500 coo.
Removal Of distractions above Sioux
City, cash $4,000
oregon-columbia river at The Cas-
cades, cash $30OO0 mouth Of COLUMBIA
river, cash $400, GOO; contract 81 500. COO.
Lower Willamette and Columbia riv-
ers below Portland, cash $225,Qo0; Villa
mette river above Portland and YamhilI
river, cash $4,000; Coquille river, general
Improvement, $4,000; SinsIaW river,
mouth, cash $26, 600
Examinations, surveys of rivers and
harbors, inspection Of bridges, ETC., cash
$200, 600.
The statement does not cover in detail
the surveys to be authorized and general
provisions of legislation, as those features
are not yet completed and probably will
be given out tomorrow.
The provisions made for the Galveston
ship canal and Buffalo bayou are not to
be expended unless the projects receive
the approval of a board, of engineers to
be appointed to examine and report on
the projects.