The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-25
ALABAMA
 WATERWAYS
STATEMENTS BY WAR DEPART
 MENT ENGINEERS.
Captain Cavanaugh Asks for e20o.00O te
 Be Expended on the AIabnma !. Rfver Next Year--0<her State Projects.

Washington, July 24r--(s Especial. J-- The War Department today made pub lie the reports of the engineer ofnce in charge of the improvement of the rivers and harbors In Western Alabama and Mississippi for the last fiscal year. As to present conditions of the work on the Black Warrior River the ofh- cer says that four locks have been completed and open for traffic. Six or seven locks, depending on the height of lift for the locks on Squaw Shoals have not yet been begun. A survey Tor two of these locks is completed. Win available funds 1t is proposed to com plete the grading of locks and grounds at Lock 13. and build additional lock houses, and with future appropriations
 the work p tbs qt i9sk riysr ana dam On the Warrior below Tuscaloosa, on account of the small amount of money available for maintenance, the only work that could be done was the op- eration of a snag boat for about threC months In the year for the removal of the worst of obstructions between Lock 8 and the mouth of the Warrior River. Funds for this work were exha usted Considerable dredging Is needed at the upper end of each pool and numerous snags and oyerhanging trees should be removed. The officer states that the present conditions of the work to be Three locks have been completed, are I in operation and the other three locks begun under continuing contract are now under construction with hired la- | bor. These three last locks are about | 50 per cent. completed.
 Regarding the work of the past year on the Tombigbee River he says. Lock Is about two-thirds completed, while Locks ? and and necessary
 work of dredging are not yet com menced.
 n the matter 2. Of appropTt,sstio2ns; 2, the rior. the Warrior and Tombigbee have
 had since the, first appropriation was
 made an aggregate for improvement Of over $f0a0,000. For the calendar year of 1905, the Toinbigbee from It's mouth | towards Demopolis had a commerce es- fimated at about S5,000,000. The ofii-
 cer in his statements gives the follow
 Mobile harbor-AvaiIable balance
 July 1. $1o1.se9; required to complete project, $560.000.
 Mobile bar--ss,4l6 on. hand. s5o.ooe Black Warrior river general protect l Available July 1, $1,674; amount re-
 quired for completion of project, in.
 the oflcer could be profitably expend-
 Warrior river below Tuscaioosa---
 5ect 5tot to June 30, si.iSi,2 PSI, of which | $15,000 was applied to maintenance.
 Warrior river general project to July 1-Balance available, &13S.20S. Nc
 estimate for next years work.
 Warrior river, Tuscaloosa to Dem | opolis-Maintenance, S10s000 asked toi | next year. Tombigbee river mouth to | Demopolis-t-Available balance July i | S433,717; amount required for compile | ton, s7l6.00O. The officer believes | that amount could be profitably ex- | pended next year.
 Operating and care of locks on bIacs Warrior---The officer states that gem | eral repairs to all the plant have been | kept up. Total expenses during the fiscal year for the seven locks amount l ed to $24,60S. The commerce during the fiscal year amounted to 2.262 tons of coal, 1884 tons of stone. 40 tons of steel. 2,454 tons of logs, 1,254 tons of lumber. 34H tons of cotton seed. 2Ss
 tons of fertilizer, 76S tons of general merclfandis@.
 Capt. James B. Cavanangh. station.
 ed at Montgomery Is also sending 1T o money statement as to operations or the Alabama river during the pas year. Ten thousand dollars was spen for works of improEement and $2S, 900 for maintenance of Improvements
 July 1. there was an available balance
 900 to be spent on the river during thu next year.
 Congressman Wiley, as previously reported in these dispatches, will tr, to secure in next sessions River anC
 Harbor bill an appropriation of $500.
 900 on the Alabama river. Rrepresen } tative Burton. of the House Rivers ant
 Harbors Committee. expects to visi
 Alabam after his return from London
 and make a trip with Colonel Vile, | down the river to look into It's needs.