The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-06
SIXTEEN MILLION
 DOLLARS NEEDED That Sum Required to Finish
 Sea Coast Detenses WORK WELL UNDER WAY Permanent Projects at 31 Points Have Been Accepted-The Sum of
 $28,6s3,434 Has Already
 Been Appropriated.
WORK WELL UNDER WAY

Washington. November 5.-Sixteen mil lion dollars will be necessary to complete the engineering work of the sea coast Notifications of the United States under the plan of the Endicott board, according to the report of Brig. Gen. Alexander Mackenzie, chief of engineers. There has already been appropriated for this pur- pose S2S, ,693, lS4 Permanent projects at thirty-one different points have been adopted, and most of them are well under way. These points are:
 Frenchmans bay, Maine; Penobscott river, Maine; Kennebec river, Maine; Port land, Me, Portmouth, N. H., Boston, Mass, New Bedford, Mass, Narragansett Island sound, New York, N Y, Delaware river, Baltimore, Md, Washington D. C., Hampton Roads, Va, entrance to Chesa- peake bay at Cape Henry, Cape Fear river, North Carolina. Charleston, s. C., Port Royal, s. C., Savannah, Ga, St. Johns river, Florida, Key West, Flap Tampa Bay, Fla, Pensacola, Fla, Mobile, Ala, New Orleans, La, Galveston, Iex.' Sandiego Gal, San Francisco, Cal, Co., lumbia river, Oregon, Puget sound, Wash- ington, Lake Champlain. The defense of the great lakes and the St. Lawrence river is under consideration. The estimate for the completion for these Notifications does not contemplate any thing more than the projects outlined by the Endicott board. Modern appliances and additional projects which may De adopted by the Taft board appointed last summer and the Qualifications of the insu- lar possessions may increase the estimates when additional work is approved by Con gress.
 Cost of Sea Coast Defenses. If Is estimated that $4,26S364 will be re- ouired to nut into execution by the en- cheering department the schemes of the artillery and signal corps for nre cohtroi of the sea coast defenses. If Is stated that the reconstruction or the works destroyed by the storm or l9oo at Galveston are nearly completed pu. the barracks and quarters and other post huildings which must be located at Forts Tra,Jis and San Jacinto are unprotected, as well as range finder stations and other enoineering accessories. Very heavy sea walls and extensive sand-flling Will pc essential to making protection cohpiele at those points. s., Work has been progressing on the ioru- fications for the defense of Manila Bay and Subig Bay, P. l., Cuba and Of the pur- chase of sites for Notifications in Hawai-. Neeotiations have been continued Tor tbe acnuisition of one site at the eastern entrance to Long Island Sound, and or
 tract at Mobile. Ala. A tract on the Kennebec river. Maine, one near charies- ton. S. C., and on the Columbia river Narra gansett bay and Puget sound were acquired during the year Total Estimates Made. The total estimate for fortihcation works under the engineering department for the fiscal year 1907 amount to sll,-
 424 153, divided as follows: Construction of gun and mortar bat teries, $4,000,000.
 Modernizing older supplements, s4s4,- 800
 Sites for notifications and sea coast de- lenses, $50000O.
 Searchlights for harbor defenses, $500, ,000
 Protection, preservation and repair Of Qualifications, $300,OOO
 Preparations of plans for Notifications s5OoO
 Supplies for seacoast defenses, $i0,0O0.
 Seawalls and embankments, s215.000
 Seawalls defenses of Galveston, Tex, $1, ,433,S53.
 Classmates, galleries, etc., for subma- rne mines, $540,700.
 Preservation and repair of torpedo structures, $50.000
 Defenses insular possessions, sea coast batteries, Manila, P. l., S2,000,O00.
 Sea coast batteries, Subig Bay, P. l., $50 900.
 Harbor Hawaii, $520,O00
 Procurement of land for sites for de- lenses of the Hawaiian Islands, $326, 100 An estimate of $75OO0 is made for inn
 provements in the Yellowstone National park.
 Expenditures on river and harbor inn provements in the United States reached s223S3, 623. This does not include $2.265,- 073 under the Mississippi river commission
 and $S7.5 575 for enlargement of Governors 8 Island, N. Y. No estimates are made this year for river and harbor improvements. save those provided for under continuing contract. This amounts to ST. ,S01.