The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-11-15
MILWAUKEE, HARBOR
TO GET $4,000.
Gen. Mackenzie Also Suggests Sums for
Improvements in Many Other
Places,

WASHINGTON. d. c.. Nov. 12.-
| Especial. Gen. Alexander Mackenzie
chief of engineers, reports to the wal
department that $4,000 can be profit
ably expended for Milwaukee's harbor
including the harbor of refuge, during
the next fiscal year.
! Other amounts he recommends in this
section are as follows:
Reservoirs and headwater improvements
OF river from st. Paul to Minneapolis, OF
rivers In Wisconsin and Minnesota tripu
| taries to the Mississippi, of Warroad harpoI
and river Minnesota, ana or the hed river
OF the North, Minnesota and North Dakota
gauging at st. Paul, survey of Lake Mime
Reservoirs at headwaters between Brain
erd and Grand Rapids, 100000
Harbor at Duluth, Mimi, and Superior
| Manistique harbor, Michigan, 100000.
Chicago and Calumet harbor, surveys OF
! Illinois and Desplaiues rivers from wafer
way from Lockport, ILL.,, to st. Louis NO.
S250,OOO. 49,,
| Calumet river Illinois and Indiana, $11o,
900.
Michigan to Get Big Share.
| Holland BLACK lake. harbor, Michigan
S1O5, 400; Grand River, Mich, $4,000; Mus,
kegon harbor, Michigan. S1Oo,iU; Grand
River, Mich, $4,000; Muskegon harbor
Michigan, $4,000; harbor Of refuge at Har'
Dor Beach, Lake Huron, 100000; st. Mary $
river at the falls, Michigan, $5OO,Ooo; Hay
| lake and NeebiSh channels, st. Mary river,
s., 100000 Detroit river, Michigan, 100000.
! Mississippi river commissions estimates
head of passes to the mouth OF the ONO,
with salaries of commission, $3,ooo'Vo,
southwest pass, Mississippi river, Slooo,ooo
South pass, Mississippi river, recommended
that annual appropriations for maintenance
be increased from 100000 to Sl5oooO; MIS-
sissippi river, between Ohio and Missouri,
] hiGG
ST. Paul 100000.
In Distant Regions.
Harbor of refuge, Sandy Bay, Cape Ann
Mass, 100000; harbor at Boston, Mass
$143O,0Oo; Pawtucket (Seekonk) river, X. L.
100000; Providence river and harbor and
Narragansett bay and Green Jacket shoal
X. l., Sl02,7 IFS; breakwaters at New Haven
Conn, S15o,0oo; East river and Hell Gate
\. ", S25o,oOo: New York harbor, New
York, $4,000; channel i'll Gowanus bay
| Bay Ridge. and Red Hook channels, New
York harhor, 100000; enlargement of gov
| errors island, New York harbor 100000
Arthur Kill, or Staten island sound, New
| York and New Jersey, Sl0OoO; channe
| between Staten Island and New Jersey
100000; Delaware river, New Jersey and
| Pennsylvania, 1894 .4G3; Patapsco river and
channel to Baltimore, Md, S5oOOo0; Poto
mac river at Washington, ID. C., S2oo,oo"
For War Equipment.
Gen. Mackenzie has reported to the
secretary of war that $1,000 ,43l vii
be required to complete the engineer work
upon the Notifications projected by thu
| board convened under the Presidents
order of January 81, 1900.
| During the year the number OF guns
available for service was increased by
the addition of eight mortars, four L.
inch guns, and ninety-four rapid fire
| guns. so that altogether the status of the
requirements for which Congress has ap
Lproprated funds was 3I6 twelve-mcl
mortarS. 100 12-inch guns, 133 1O-incl
guns, 90 S-inch guns, and oSI rapid tir,
guns.
For continuing the construction of gur
and mortar batteries an estimate of 81,
! PAT. 400 is submitted; for undermining ole
requirements S3i2. 800 and for fire con
troll engineer works $l,5G4 ,S34.
Defense Plans Elaborate.
For the purchase of sites for the forti
! fcations to carry out the plans OF tn
defense board the estimate of S3.31O,oO,
is submitted and for searchlights ant
connections $2,3S7, 100; for preservation
and repair of Notifications, $500 900
supplies for seacoast defenses, $4,000
sea walls and embankments, S236,3l5
preservation and repair of torpedo struc
lures. $550,OOO; submarine mines, 81,
80, $40; construction of batteries in in
sular possessions, 1908, 900 (S250,0O
Honolulu and Pearl harbor, Hawaii
S344 900 to Subig bay, Philippine isl
ands, and 81 1853, 900 to Manila, Philip
pine islands; fire control at batteries il
these stations, S152, 800; fertilization
sites. Hawaiian islands, SIG, 100; sub
marine mines, insular possessions, $3S2
500.