The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-06
SEA COAST WILL
BE FORTIFIED
Permanent Projects at Different
Points Under Way.
WILL COST MANY MILLIONS
FIGURES GIVEN BY BROADER
GENERAL MCKENZIE.

Washington, Nov. 5.-SiXteen million
dollars will be necessary to complete
the engineering works of the fortifica-
tions of the seacoast of the United
States under the present plans Of the
Endicott board, according to the re-
port of Brigadier General Mckenzie,
chief of engineers. There already has
been appropriated for this purpose S2S,-
963,434. Permanent projects At thirty
one different points have been adopted
and most of them are we'll under way.
Among these points are San Diego,
Cal; San Francisco. Columbia river
and Puget sound.
The defense of the great lakes and
the st. Lawrence river is under con-
Sideration.
May Be Increased.
The estimate for the completion of
the Notifications does not contemplate
anything more than the projects out
lined by the EndicOtt board. Modern
appliances and additional projects
which may be adopted by the Taft
board appointed last summer and the
Notifications of the insular possessions
may increase the estimate when addi-
tional work is approved by congress.
1t is estimated that 81. 263, 364 will be re-
quired 10 put into execution by the en-
cheering department the schemes Of
the artillery and signal corps for fire
control Of the seacoast defenses. The
report says:
While the general principles of the
fire control system have been satisfac-
toTily determined and adopted, the ac-
tual details on which costs largely de-
pend are still In d condition of expert
mental development by the artillery,
and il is anticipated that the cost OF
actual construction will probably
largely exceed the above sum when
such development is complete
Work on Fortifieatlons.
Work has been progressing on the
fortihcations for the defense of Ma
Mia bay and Subig bay and on the
purchase Of sites for Notifications in
Hawaii. 4 tract on the Columbia river
and one on Puget sound were acquired
during the year. The total estimates
for fertilization works under the en-
gineering department for the fiscal
year 1907 amount to silica, l5S, divided
as follows:
Construction of gun and mortar bat
teries, $4,000, COO; undermining older EN-
tiOns and scacoast defenses, $500, COO;
searchlights for harbor defenses, $780,
600; protection, preservation and repair
for fortified tons. $500 600; preparation
of plans for forJfications, $1,000; sup
plies for seacoast defenses. $4,000; sea
walls and entertainments, S215, 000; sea
walls, defenSeS of Galveston, Tex. $433,-
S53; classmates. galleries, etc, for sub
marine mines. $540 zoo: preservation and
repair of torpedo structures, $50.0OOJ
Defenses of insular possessions:
Sea coast batteries. Manila, p. l.,
s., 600, 000 sea coast batteries. Subig
bay. F. T.. $4,000, 600: harbor Hawaii.
S520,O00; procurement of land for sites
for defenses of the Hawaiian islands,
1896, 100.
Rivers and Harbors.
An estimate of $4,000 is made for i'm
provements in the Yellowstone Ma
uonal park.
Expenditures on rivers and barber
Improvements in the United States
reached $22, 32S, 623. This does not in
clude 81, 265.073 under the Mississippi
river commission. No estimates are
made this year for river and harbor
improvements save those provided for
under continuing contracts. This
amounts TO 81. 456,S01 to which is added
$4,000 to be expended under the Cali
fornia debris commission and also an
estimate of $2,O00000 for the Mississippi
river commission. Among the esti-
mates for continuing contracts are the
following:
San Pedro harbor, Cal. $500. 900;
mouth of Columbia river, $500 900; Ho-
nOlulu harbOr, Hawaii, $500 600; VIII
mington harbor. Cal, 100000; Oak
land, Cal, harbor, $250,O00; San Pedro
bay, California, $81, 600: Columbia
river, at The Dalles. Ore, $250,000; Co
lumbia river. between Vancouver,
Wash. and the Willamette river, Ore
gon, 10000; Columbia and lower VIII
lamette rivers, below Portland, $l25 900