The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28

teen feet; the project depth, twenty three feet. can De carried to opposite all the principal docks by approach from the east end Of the ship channel.
 In the fiscal year ending Jue 30. 1906, s32,7l2.06 can profitably be expended.
 On the Thames river project, that is to dredge and build training walls n se- cure a channel two hundred feet wide, with depth Of sixteen feet from above New London to Allyn Point and four teen feet thece to Norwich, also to dredge ShaW's Cove at New London to a depth of twelve feet, there had been expended up to June 30 s414 4,24sss, and sls.00o can be adyantageously expended in the fiscal year endinge June 30, 1906.
 NEW HAVEN.
 On the New Haven harbor improve ment the amount expended up to the close Of the fiscal year was s273, ,162. .21, and resulted in completion of the pro- jects. The maximum draft which could De carried. June 90, 1904, through the main channel to Tomlinson bridge Is seventeen feet at mean low water; this is on account of a newly made shoal in the channel opposite the twelye-foot anchorage; eleWhere the main channel has depth of twenty feet. 4 considera- ble number of vessels drawing rom tWenty-two to twenty.three feet entered the harbor during the past year The maximum loW-water draft which can be carried ID Quinnipiac river to Ferry street bridge is twelve feet, and from Ferry street bridge to Grand avenue bridge eight feet: up Mill river to Grand avenue bridge twelve feet in both branches. The mean rise Of tide is 5.7 feet at the entrance to the harbor and 6.2 above Tomlinson bridge.
 the mouth or the harbor the total
 On the brealwater Improvements at the mouth of the harbor the total ex- penditure to June 90 was sS77. .1SO. is, while to complete the existing project It is estimated that $1,272,134 more win be required. The additional work pro posed is for extension Of benefit to com merce.
 BRANFORD HARBOR,
 No work was conducted on Branford harbor Improvement during the year, as the amount appropriated was insuf- fieiellt. About eight thousand dollars can well be expended. On Milford har- DOT work nothing was done either, but twenty-five thousand dollars could be used used to advantage. At present a low water draft or from eight to eight and half feet can be carried over the bar and up as far as Merwin's wharf. Above this about four feet can be car ried to the town wharf,
 HoUsATONIC RIVER WORK. The Housatonic river improvement has been carried on to an expenditure of S22S,617.61 up to June 30. At that date the project had been completed, except that the dike below Stratford was not built to the projected length and hreakwater at the mouth to full protected cross section, and channel of project dimensions existed from the mouth or the river to Derby. On June 30, at least seven feet draft at low wa ter could be carried across the bar at the mouth of the river and thence about six feet to Derby, but the chan nels in places had become marrow. The work done has enabled vessels to enter the lower river in safety, instead of waiting for high tide in an exposed situation outside of the mouth; large part of the commerce could not have been carried on without the improved channel. About thirty thousand dollars more could be well used and the addi- tional work proposed is necessary to maintain the improvement and extend its benefits.
 BRIDGEPORT IIARBOR.
 On the work at Bridgeport harbor the amount expended on the existing pro ject to June 30, 1904, is $7S,224.ss. The net results are: A main channel two hundred feet wide and eighteen feet deep rom Stratford avenue bridge to the inner beacon; outside thereof the main channel has been dredged for about thirty seven hundred feet; two hundred and twenty-five feet wide and full depth for about eight hundred and fiftp feet, and two hundred feet wide and full depth for the A.emaining 1, 45O feet to the outer end; the twelve-foot anchorage, and portion of the eigh- teen-foot anchorage about one hundred and thirty feet wide. adjacent to the channel, dredgeds the Pequonnock riv- Ter channel twelve feet deep and one hundred feet wide completed to within about five hundred feet of its up stream end; Yellow Mill channel twelve feet deep and one hundred feet wide compile ted to within one hundred and fifty feet of the Stratford avenue bridge; the Johnsons river channel nine feet deep and one hundred feet wide completed to the turn above the shipyard, the ninerfoot channel one hundred feet wide in Black Rock harbor and up Ce- 3dar Creek completed; and the Burr Creek channel of the same projected dimensions dredged from the main channel to Dundon's dock, but owing to ledge rock full project dimensions were not obtained, and portions of this chan mel have subsequently, filled in so that the available width is only about fifty feet in places and the limiting depth about i've and one-half feet; also the east breakWater repaired and extended three hundred and eighty feet; four jet ties built for shore protection on the west side of FayerWeather Island and the sea wall at the south end of the is- land repaired.
 The maximum draft that could he