Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-12
nAcKENzlE's REPORT
Work Done BY the United States
 Army the Past Year.

Washington. Nov 12.-General A. Mackenzie, chief of engineers of the United States army, in his annual re- port to the secretary of war, presents an exhaustive review of the work ac- complished by his corps during the fiscal year ended June Both last, and submits estimates of appropriations required for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next. The report says that the seacoast defenses of the United States are now somewhat more than 90 per cent completed and that existing pro jects comprise 364 heavy guns, 1,29e rapid-fire guns and 524 mortars, while up to the present time provision has been made for emplacing 334 heavy guns, 5S7 rapid-fire and 376 mortars.
 The most important of the sites to be required is the one at the southern entrance to New York harbor, renereo necessary, it is stated, by the new deep water entrance under construc- ton. Improved methods of construc- tiou have necessitated notifications of the earlier constructed fortifcatiOns in order to modernfze them. The new works under construction in connec- ton with the scheme of seacoast de lenses to the present time represent an expenditure Of S2S,OO0,O00 for en- gineer work alone.
 The estimates of appropriat tions re quired for fortification work are as follows: Gun and mortar batteries, $4, ,OOO, ,OOO; modernizing old emplace- merts, $942,OOO; installation of range finders, $500, ,O00; sites for fortifica tions, $650, GOO; searchlights for harbor defenses. $5OO,0O0; sea walls and en bankments, $300,000; easements, etc, for submarine mines, $60O, ,OOO; con, struction of seacost batteries ill in- suIar possessions, $2,000,O00; sites for defenses on Hawaiian Islands, S326,- 100.
 The expenditures for river and ha1s bor work during the past fiscal year aggregated $23, ,O94. Estimates for the ensuing fiscal year have been made as follows: Under continuing con tracts. $, AZ asae; rivers and harbors general, $21, A. .257; examina tons, surveys and contingencies, $S300, eco, prevention of deposits in New York harbor, $85,26O; enlargement of Gov ernor's Island, New York, S1OO,OOO. The estimate of the Mississippi riven commission has been reduced by the chief of engineers to $2,575,oO0.
 General Mackenzie states that the following amounts can be proitably
 
 the districts named:
 Newburyport harbor, Mass. $50,- GOO; Merrin.ac river, Mass, $5O,000; tharbor of refuge, Sandy Bay, Cape Ann. Mass. $3O0,0O Rockport harbor, Mass, $67 ,083; Mystic river, below the mouth of Island End river, Mass. $50,- GOO; Chelsea creek, Mass, S10O,000, un- der project for general improvements, and So70,000 under project for thirty five foot channel; narbor of efuge. Nantucket. Mass, $SO,O00; Woods channel, Mass. $7O,OOO for the removal of Green Jacket shoal; harbor of Prov idence, $125, ,OOO; breakWaters at New Haven, Conn, $150,00O; Sag Harbor, Long Island, $5S,oO0; East river and Hell Gate, New York, $250.0OO; lHar- lem river, New York, S200000; Hud- son river, New York, S25O. 900; New York harbor. $75, 900 under general i'm provement and $5O0,O0U for Ambrose channel; Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, $251 GOO; Passaic river, N J.. $95, 900; channel between Staten Island and New Jersey, S11O,000; Rari- tan bay, N. j., S5O,000.
 Among the numerous other expendi- lures suggested are $2, ,793,4 400 for locks and dams of the Ohio river in Penn. Sylvania.