The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
FOR RIVERS
OF ALABAMA
Colonel Raymond Files
His Estimates.
|. s~.... t...+.rs t4sFsits
$4,000 FoR THE c0OSA
$t,f23,523 Needed for Com
.pletion Of the Project.
The Chattahoochee, Flint and Ala
bama Also Recommended for linz
Drovement-senator Cockrell
Declines to Talk Politics.
$4l3,ooo PoR THE COOSA

Washington, July 2s.-tSpeciaL) -Lieu-
tenant Colonel r. r. Raymond Of the En-
cheering Department of the War De-
partment filed his annual report today
upon the Flint River in Georgia, the
chattahoochee River in Alabama ana
Georgia. the Alabama River and the
Coosa River.
Colonel Raymond recommends that the
work on the Flint River be confined to
the section below Albany, connecting the
navigable sections by completing the im-
bridge. The construction Of q new dredge.
to be used on the Flint River alone. at .
cost Of $4,000. is recommended. The re-
port recommends $4,000 for the improves
ment of the river until the fiscal year
ending June 90, 1904. There Is now avail-
able $25100 for the work. and it is esti-
mated that $4,000 will be necessary to
complete the project.
For the Improvement of the Chatta-
hoochee in Georgia and Alabama the ex-
penditure of $4,000 is recommended for
the next fiscal year There is available
for the work $102, 273
There are no railroads paralleling this
river" reads the report, land the people
depend upon 1t for their transportation.
Columbus, with its magnificent harbor, Is
rapidly becoming one of the principal
manufacturing centers of the South
The report recommends that there be no
further improvements on the section be-
tween Geneva and Newton, as railroads
supply that section and the channel is
narrow and rocky and expensive to main
tain. Below Geneva, 1t is urged. the
river should be kept free from snags and
open to navigation.
Tho Alabama River. according to the
report, was too high during the year, to
| permit OF the snag boat working, and but
| little was done in Improvement work. II
Is estimated that $Ss,eOo will be needed for
tho work for the next fiscal year and that
S17e,251 will be required to fully complete
the project
For the Coosa River 1t is recommended
that lock No. be increased in height
so as to furnish a channel of six feet OF
water at the head of box shoals. and that
a dam without a lock be built at the pro-
posed site of lock No. s. This, the en-
gfneer stats, would furnish continuous
navigation for 191 miles below Rome. Ga.
The estimate for the fiscal year calls for
completio nof lock No. g. $4,000; dam at
Lock 5, SOS, 000 channel from Rome to
Lock 4, $4,000; building hull for lock-
Sc, 900; a total of $4,000 1t is estimated
that 8, 12s, 52S will be required to complete
this work as projected.
=, Cockreil the Clam.
Senator CoclxrelI of Missouri is one OF
the few Democrats of prominence who
has refused to be drawn into discussion
| of campaign issues. He deprecates the
amount of talking that has been IN
duIged in by certain Democratic leaders.
the net result Of which has been to en-
phasize the fractional differences In tho
| rarity. ''It has been my experience in
life." he said today, that when man
is not certain as to what is best to be
done, silence is the wisest course. But
will say one thing, l believe that public
sentiment will crystalize before the
campaignPof 1904 and there will be har-
me- NOUS action on the part OF Demo-
Gratis upon the vital Issues that the con-
ditions will then present"
Senator Cockrell absolutely declines 20
| be draw into any speculation as TO the
| Den ccratic candidate for 1904. He will
MT express any preference. He has moth
| ing TO say to the availability of German
or Hill or Bryan or Olney or any other
| prominent Democrat who has been men-
| toned He realizes that there are ex-
| tremists in the party who are isisting
| on conditions which other members or
the party win not accept but he oeheveS
| that these extremists will eventually
yield, enough of their views to work hand
in hand with the great mass of the DEM
ocratic party which desires to win IN
the next Presidential election. Neither
will Senator Cockrell discuss issues, all
| though II Is known that he has pro-
nourced ideas upon the proper method
for dealing with trusts. For many years
he has been urging legislation that would
prevent the enormous watering of stock
| by corporations He appreciates the ar
| htulty of reaching these corporations oy
| Federal law in as much as they are all
| chertered under State laws. 1t IS known,
how ever. that he will urge and support
any legislative proposition that promises
| to legally accomplish this purpose.