The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-13
MacKENZIE'S ESTIMATES
SUMS FOR IMPRoyEMENT OF WA
 TERWAYs.
large sums Recommended for Expeu- ditures on Alabama Rivers and HarbOrs---Sea Coast Defences
 90 Per Cent Completed.

Washington, Nov 12.-Gen. A. Mac Kenzie Chief of Engineers of the Unit ed States Army in his annual report to the Secretary of War, presents an ex- haustive review of the work accomp- lshed by his corps during the fiscal year ended June 30th, last, and sub mits estimates of appropriations requir- ed for the fiscal year beginning July l., next.
 The report says that the seacoast de- fences of the United States are now somewhat more than 50 per cent com pleted, and that existing projects com prise 364 heavy guns, 1926 rapid fire guns and 324 mortars, while up to the present time provision has been made for emplacing 334 heavy guns, 5S7 rapid fire and 376 mortars. The most i'm portant of the sites to be acquired is the one at the southern entrance to New York harbor, rendered necessary, 1t is stated by the new deep water chan nels which are under construction. Improved methods of construction have necessitated modified tions of the earlier constructed fortifcations in order to modernize them. The new work con- structed in connection with seacoast defences with present times, represents an expenditure of $2S,OO0.0OO for engi- neer work alone.
 estimates oI hppIppI ldtlOuS re- quired for fertilization work are as fol- lows:
 Gun and mortar batteries. $4,000. 900 i; undermining old supplements. s942, 500; installation of range finders, $500. GOO; sites for fortifications, $65O, 900; searchlights for harbor defences, $500,- 900; preservation and repair of fortifi- cations, $300,000 sea walls and embank- ments. $300.0OO; easements, etc. for submarine mines. $500, 900; construction of seacoast batteries in insular pos sessions. $2,000. 900; sites for defences on Hawaiian Islands, $326.1OO.
 The expenditures for river and har- bor work during the past fiscal year have been made as follows:
 Under continuing contracts. $S,442.- 396; rivers and harbors, (generaD, S21,444,25T: examinations, surveys and contingencies. $2Oo, ,O0O; prevention of deposits in New York harbor. SS3260: enlargement of Governors Island, \. . Y. Sl00.0O0. The estimate of the Mis- sissippi River Commission has been re- duced by the Chief of Engineers to $2.575.0 GOO.
 General Mackenzie states that the following amounts can be practically expended in the next fiscal year in the districts named
 Chelsea Creek, Mass, $1OO. 900, under project for general improvements. and $9T0,OO0 under project for thirty five foot channel: Potomac River at Wash ington $2O0,000; Anacostia River. Dis trict of Columbia, S2O0,OO0; James River. Virginia. $175.0OO; Cape Fear River, above Wilmington. N. C.. $2OO.- 900 and at and below Wilmington. S150.OO0: Congaree River South Caro- lima SIS, 900; Charleston Harbor. South Carolina, S5O.000; Savannah Harbor, Georgia. $225.OOO; Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida. $70, 900; St. Johns River, Florida. $525.OO0; Harbor of Key West, Fla. and entrance thereto, $50.- OOO; harbor at Apalachicola Bay, Flor ida. S5O.OO0; Chattahoochee River. be- low Columbus. Ga. s6O.0OO; Pensacola Harbor. Fla. 5000, 900; Coosa, Oostena- lua and Coosawatts Rivers. Georgia and Alabama S125,0O0.
 Mobile Harbor. Alabama. S34I25O; Black Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers. Alabama. $625. 900: Pascagoula River. Mississippi $2OO,00O; Southwest Pass. Mississippi. $125O.OOO; mouth and passes of Calcasou River, Louisiana. $125.0OO harbor at Sabine Pass. Tex, $500, ,O00; Galveston Harbor, Texas, 345O,0o0; Galveston Channsl Texas.