The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-06
NEWARK AN OCEAN
PORT DEEP SEA
CHANNEL IS READY
Engineers Report to This Effect
Has Been Filed in WASH
ingtOn.
OPEN AS FAR
AS PLANK ROAD BRIDGE
When Docks Are Completed This
Fall Big Steamers Will
Tie Up Here.

According to an engineers report
just filed in Washington, the deep sea
channel from Newark down the Pas
sale and lower bay to New York har-
Dor, making Newark an ocean port, is
now ready for use. Ocean-going steam
ers will not be seen entering the city
until this fall for lack of docking facili-
ties.
Newark manufacturers have long
looked forward to the day when their
wares could be shipped direct from
their home city to all points of the
globe, when deep sea vessels flying the
flags of all nations would empty. their
raw materials at the doors of their
mills, and that vision is now on the
verge of becoming a reality.
Channel Half Completed.
The report, just made public, shows
that the sixteen-foot channel author
lied under an act of the Federal Wal
Department a year g this month to
be cut from Twenty-third street, Bay
onne, up the lower bay and Passaic
river to Newark, a stretch of ten miles,
has just been half completed, the deep
waterway now extending into Newark
far as the Plank road bridge. When
finished, the new channel will reach to
the Midland bridge of the Erie Rail
road, passing through the entire length
of the city.
The engineers report that they ex-
pect to complete the work in another
year, although the dredging will be
much more difficult in the last five
miles than in the first. To date the
d%redgers nave encountered only mud.
sand and silt, but from o on 1t is
that much clay and rock will
be met with. This, however, is not ex-
pected to reduce the average monthly
of 100, 900 cubic yards which
has been maintained so far.
While the contract for deepening the
Passaic calls for only a s~ixteen-foot cut
at high tide, the channel will actually
be eighteen feet deep, owing to a two
foot overcut along the entire distance.
This will make 1t possible for craft reg
istered at something more than 1000
tons to unload at Newark without re-
lucing their cargoes. The channel will
rave a uniform depth of 300 feet for
4 distance of nine miles and 200 for the
The first of the new docks needed TO
make deep sea navigation up the PAS
sale a reality will in all probability be
early this coming fall and
will be located just north of the Plank
Road bridge. The Newark Lime and
Cement Company last week began the
construction of a 500-foot dock at this
point. The same company will also
erect a large plant here.
Increase In Land Values.
Real estate operators report that land
llong the river near this bridge Is being
sought after for a similar pur-
bose by many manufacturing COM
Directly across the river from
cement company's works the La
lew Leather Company is to build an
extensive plant. and other concerns are
follow suit.
Three dredges are in operation at the
present time on the new channel,
If them, the Onondaga, the largest In
existence, being engaged In cutting a
new section opposite the Lister ferti-
izer plant. A new pump has been in
at the pump basin above the
road bridge, and the "Glp' is
sucked up on the meadow at the
ate of 5000 cubic yards a day. A con-
siderable area of frontage along the
has been built in this fashion,
affording excellent ground for docking
n manufacturing purposes.