The Washington herald., 1907-02-17
WATER WAYS GET AID
Appropriations for Rivers
and HarbOrS Increased.
SENATE DEALS LITERALLY
Various Amendments Added 10 Bill
as IL Passed HOuse-TOtaI sweIIed
to Over Ninety MilliOns-siississippi
Improvement Revamped - Water
way from Chicago Not Approved.

A total appropriation Of S92,72O,472 for
the improvement of rivers and harbors
is recommended in the bin reported yes
terday from the Senate Committee on
Commerce.
This is SS,519,234 more than was carried
in the bill as it passed the House. The
cash appropriations amount 10 SlO,OS1 ,9O3,
which is S46S5,296 more than in the House
bill, and the projects for which con-
tracts are authorized amount to $52,63s. 564,
IN increase Of S3.S34,03S
Among the amendments added by the
Senate are the following: Improving Hud-
son River, New York. by extending the
twelve-foOt project from below the Troy
dam TO barge canal entrance at Water
ford, 10000. with authority TO contract
for completion up TO 1924. 100 more; channel
north Of Shooters Island. 10000, with
authority to contract for completion up
TO S1S0.1l5 more; Bay Ridge and Red Hook
channels, New York harbor, are left as
IN existing law with the ultimate depth
Of forty feet.
Chicago Disappointed.
thorize the construction Of a deep water
way from Chicago to the Mississippi
River failed. The House refused TO grant
this authority, and the Senate Committee
followed suit.
Maurice River, New Jersey, gets $751;
200; James River, Virginia, $4,000; Big
Sandy River. West Virginia and Ken
lucky. constructing dams in Levisa Fork
and Tug Fork, 100000, with contracts to
complete up to $4,000 more: construct
ihg inland waterway from Pamlico Sound
70 Beaufort Inlet, n. c.. twelve feet deep
$7OiS75; Cape Fear River above Whining
ton. n. G. 10000 for locks and dams
The Senate Committee inserted in the
bill appropriations for dams Nos and
10. In the Ohio River at 100000. Each
of these was refused by the House,
Construction Of a sea-going hydraulic
dredge for the harbofs on the coast Of
Mississippi is provided with 10000; con
structing canal from Mermentau
River, Louisiana, 70 Sabine River, slS9, 600,
With authority 10 contract 10000 more;
constructing two dams near CatahOula
Shoals, Louisiana, and one near Frank
lin Shoals. Ark. in OuaChita and Black
rivers. S90, $50, with authority 70 contract
$560S23 more; Galveston channel. Texas,
$-U00J0; Mobile harb0r Alabama, 10000.
Trinity River.
Trinity River, Texas, $500 with au-
thority 20 contract $4,000 more; repair
ing damage TO the Great Miami embank-
ment OF ohio River east Of LawrenCebUrg,
Ind, caused by the recent food. $1,000
harbor at Duluth. MINI. and Superior. Wis.,
1929 900, OF which 10000 is to be expended
upon the Superior entry, and $4,000 on
the construction Of a breakwater at en-
trance OF ship canal at Duluth: Illinois
River, H., $4,000.
The Senate committee increased the (
for the Improvement of
the Western branch Of Norfolk barber,
Virginia, by adding 10000,
The House proposition for the improve
ment Of jhe Mississippi River from the
mouth OF the Ohio TO the mouth Of the
Missouri is rewritten To continue the
Improvement $3.50 90 is appropriated and
contracts 20 prosecute the work author
lied up 20 81 $4,000 more, this amount TO
be spread over three years The appro-
priation for improving the river from the
mouth Of the Missouri 10 Minneapolis Is
TO be spent TO maintain a channel six feet
deep at low water.
More for Missouri.
The amount for the Missouri river from
its mouth 10 Fort Benton is increased
from S3Q0.000 20 $4,000
Among the preliminary surveys author
lied by the bin IS one Of the harbor at
Gary, Ind, with a view to determining
whether a breakwater is necessary. This /
is the point at which the United States
Steel trust is building its immense plant
rear Chicago, and there will probably be
some opposition to the idea of the gov
eminent building a breakWater for the
benefit of the trust.
A survey was authorized for a uniform
depth of thirty-fve feet in Galveston har- /
Dor. and 10 remove a bar in the Potomac
at Alexandria. Va.
The Senate committee reported In favor
of authorizing a survey for a thirty-five-
foot channel in the Delaware River from
Philadelphia TO Delaware Bay