The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

II Dams in the Ohio River hav'
cost the United States Government
i g. TAG. 7O2 55 during the past year
Government work is about closes
for the season, and report ISSUED
BY General Mackenzie, Chief o
United States Government Engi
neers. state that 81. oil SOP SO oil
the amount was expended on the
big dam and lock system just COM
pleted at Merrill.
Capt. Lewis Tanner has purchas-
ed the steamer Telephone from
parties at Parkersburg, and the
boat is now on the Kanawha docks
undergoing eight repairs.
The Neva WIS on the Kanswhe
docks Saturday being repaired, but
is now in the river again.
That Petersburg KY. prophet
who predicted that the rivers would
be at the danger line as early as
Thanksgiving. has hit it exactly if
he meant the line was dangerously
low.
AT the tenth annual meeting of
the Ohio Valley Improvement
Association at Huntington last
week the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year.
For President John L Vance;
for secretary and treasurer. j. F
Ellison; Vice Presidents, Pennsyl-
vania, George Henderson, w. B.
Rodgers. James A. Henderson, of
Pit.sburg; West Virginia, b. Quar-
rier. b. w. Peterson, of Wheeling;
Dan A. Mossman, of Huntington;
Ohio. Albert Bsttinger. Cincinnati,
81. A. Martin. Ironton, D. j. Sin
Clair. Steubenville; Kentucky, W.
w. Hite, Louisville. w. A. Patton,
Catlettsburg; Indiana, F. B. Posey,
Evansville, NJ. o. g 4rber.
The organization of a steamboat
company control through lease or
the exchange of stock all the steam
boat lines operating on the Ohio
river. between Pittsburg and New
Orleans will be taken up at a SER
les of conferences to be held in
Cincinnati. be held in Cincinnati.
beginning this week. The plan
was mapped out some time ago and
the first step in the negotiations
was taken week ago, when Com
modore F A Laidley sold to other
river interests all his White Collar
line boats plying up stream.
The new company will carry
about 81, 900. 600, of stock. About
500, 900 of this will be needed to
take up the property of the various
lines. known as the White Collar
line. Cincinnati and Portsmouth
Packet company and the Pittsburg
aud Cincinnati Packet company.
The remaining stock will bedevot-
ed to building warehouses and au-
tomato docks and a number of
light draft steam ers. The present
boats in most instances are of snch
heavy draft that they can only
operate six months in the year.
By building several smaller boats,
adapted to running in shallow
water, the coal carrying busin ess
can be maintained eight or ten
months in each year and the river
traffio can be kept intact. AT the
present time and for some months
past because of the low stage which
has prevailed in the Ohio river
traffic has suffered severely.
Among expenditures recon-
mended for river and harbor work
during the coming year by Chief
Engineer Mackenzie are the fol-
lowing: Cumberland river. below
Nashville, 100000; Cumberland
river. above Nashville. 100000;
Tennessee river, from Chattanooga,
Tenn. to Riverton, Ala, $685. 600;
Ohio river. 100000; Look and
Dam No. 81. Ohio river, $4,000;
construction of Locks and Dams
Nos. 2 to z inclusive, in Ohio river,
in Pennsylvania. 100000; Dem
No. 8, $500, 900; Dam No. IL. $780,
600; Nos Is and 1S, $593, 400;
Dam No. 10, 100000; Big Sandy
river and Loisa and Tug Forks,
West Virginia and l. Kentucky,
$685.. 600; falls of Ohio river at
Louisville, $250,0OO; Callmut river,
Illinois and Indiana. $250.000;
Toledo (O) harbor, $115, 900;
Sandusky co., harbor. $143. 600;
Black river .harbor. Ohio. BIG 600.