The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-08

purpose OF enabling the Department OF
Agriculture to continue its experiments
in reference to the boil worm and for
the further purpose of enabling the De-
Fartment of Agriculture to conduct IN
investigation of the cotton with disease
commonly known as cotton rot"
The bin providing for the conjunction
OF lighthouse and fog signal at Dia-
roond Shoals, of Cape Hateras, on the
ccast of North Carolina, which was
passed by the Senate just before adjourn
ment for the holidays. IS now before the
House committee on interstate and for
I eiQn commerce. As w2s stated in this col
umn at the time Of its Introduction in
the Senate. the bill authorizes Albert F.
Elks, of Boston 20 construct the light
house and fog signal together with sU"'
auxiliary works as will &c necessary to
maintain the same permanently at the
outer Diamond Shoal." The construction
to begin within twelve months from date
of approval of the act. The bill further
PROVIDES: etn
That the said light house and Jog sig
nal shall be constructed and placed where
the water is thirty feet in depth, mean
| high tide, or IS me- said depth as may
! q" practicable.
That the foundation and base OF said
structure shall be sunken not less than
| fifteen feet into the sea bottom, unless
solid foundation shall be found nearer
the surface, and shall be inclosed in
steel caisson, filled with masonry and
concrete, extending from the bottom ther-
OF to a heiSkt of not less than twenty
| feet above @.ean high tide.
THAT the foundation and base of saTd
! structure shall be not less than seventy
| feet. in diameter at the bottom and thir-
| ty feet in diameter at the water line,
mean high tide, and that part of the safc
structure filled with masonry and con
crete and extending twenty feet above
mean high tide shall not be less tnan
| twenty-seven and one-half feet in diam
eler at such height. Sufficient space
shall be provided in said solid masonry
above mean high tide for the storage of
| fresh water and other articles. Above
| said structure, beginning at a height of
twenty feet above mean high tide, there
| shall be erected a circular steel strIc-
| ture, containing suitable apartments for
| living and storage rooms, and extending
a height of not less than twenty feet.
or as much more as may be necessary.
and making a total height of not less
| than forty feet in all above mean high
tide, and which said circular steel str1ic-
ture shall be twenty-seven and one-haK
| feet in diameter at the base and nos
less than twenty-five feet in diameter
at the top; and the said superstructure
for living apartments and storage room
as above provided shall he fully equal
in space and accommodation to the living
apartments in the light. station at Minots
Lodge, on the coast of Massachusetts.
There shall be erected above said
circular steel structure. as aforesaid,
circular steel tower or mast of sufficient
diameter to contain a spiral stairway
and which shall extend sufficient height
50 that the light to be placed thereon
shall be at least two hundred feet above
mean high tide, all to be substantially
und securely constructed.
That said Eells shall make his own
plans for the construction herein provided
Tor.
That the lens and equipment for the
said lighthouse and for signal shall he
furnished by the United States, under
the direction OF the Secretary of the
said structure shall be sufficiently COM
pleted to place the same in position.
without expense to said Eells or his as
8cciates.
THAT the Secretary of the Treasury
shall designate suitable and proper
place for the construction of said pro-
posed lighthouse and fog signal within
sixty days after written request from the
said Eells or his associates During the
progress of the construction of said light
house the same shall be inspected from
time to time under the direction Of the
Secretary of War.
THAT when the said lighthouse snail
be placed in position, in accordance with
the conditions herein specified, ana ready
to be lighted, the same shall be subject
to the approval, on behalf OF the gov
eminent of the United States, OF the Sec
rotary of War That at the end of one
year after the said lighthouse shall have
been so approved the Secretary of
the Treasury be, and he is hereby, au-
thcrized and directed to pay to said Al
bert F. Eells, or his assigns or legal rep
resentatives. the sum of three hundred
thousand dollars, and at the end OF TWO
years after said approval the additional
sum of two hundred anc seventy-fve thou
sand dollars. making in all the sum nj
FIVE hundred and seventy-ive Thousand
dollars: Provided, That the same shall
have remained in a substantial and good
condition during the period OF one ane
two years, respectively
FRED L. MERRITT.