The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
For the Improvement Of Rivers and
Harbors and Notifications Dur
Ing the Coming Year,
Says Marshall.
THE ANNUAL REP OR T
TWO Million For the Work Proposed
by the Mississippi River Com
mlssIon-other Recon-
mendations Made.


million dollars Is the aggregate APP
preparation commanded by Brigadier
General William L. Marshall, chief OF
engineers, U. s. A., for work on rivers
and harbors and fertilization during
the coming fiscal year, in his annual
report transmitted to the secretary
of war today.
OF this sum, approximately 100000 !
900 is for existing contracts on river
and harbor improvements, $2l,000o00 |
for general work on rivers and har-
bors, including examination surveys,
and contingencies, and $2,OOO,O00 for
work proposed by the Mississippi riv-
er commission.
The amount recommended for forti.
flcations Is $7,732,233, Of which the
most important estimates are $780,
600 for seacoast batteries at Manila,
and s449,4O0 at Honolulu and Pearl
harbor; sea walls and defenses OF
Galveston, Texas $4,000; repair and
protection of defenses at Pensacola,
Fla, $5o7, 100; for undermining older
emplacements generally $500,000; for
electric installation $9s4,253; and for
search light 100000.
Commenting on the Notifications of
our insular possessions, the report re-
fers to the every necessary additional
defenses at MANILA and suggests that
if the amount recommended cannot be
fully appropriated at least 100000
should be made available curing the
coming year, $50 that substantial
plant can be provided and work be
conducted in an effective and econo-
mical manner"
A considerable proportion Of the
suggested appropriation for search
lights is recommended to be expended
in the Philippines and Hawaii. b
Some Of the more important esti-
mates for the year, for river and har-
Dor work, in General MarshalBs re-
port, follows: a3tF
enthusiastically Bay llarbo-,
| Cape Ann, $575,000; Boston harbor,
| 81. 100000; New Bedford and Fair
Haven, 1927 1000; Provincetown, $780,
900.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES at New
Haven 100000; New Haven harbor,
/ S2O,O00 Bridgeport harbor, $4,000;
Connecticut river below Hartford, $40,-
4 600.
/ New York-East river and He'll
Gate, 100000; Harlem river, 100000;
Hudson river, $4,000; New York
harbor, $685., 1000; Gowanus bay, $780,
| 600.
New Jersey-Passaic river, $4,000;
Staten Island Sound, 100000; Staten
Island channel, 100000; Cold Springs
inlet, s265,00O; Raritan bay, $4,000.
Pennsylvania-Dela river, $780,
900.
Delaware Wilmington harbor, $751;
900.
Maryland-Patapsco river and chan
mel to Baltimore, s965ooO; Harbor of
Southwest Baltimore, $4,000.
virginia-Jame river, 100000;
Carriers creek, s66,4oO; Rappahannock
river, $4,000
North Carolina-Cape Fear river,
$500 900.
Georgia-Savanna harbor, $40o,-
600.
Alabama Mobile, $4,000; Tom
Bigbee river, $1,oOO,0OO.
Florida-St Johns river, 1867 900;
Jacksonville, $215,0OO.
Texas-Galveston harbor, $270,000;
channel 100000; ship channel, $780,
600; Port Arthur canal, 100000.
Mississippi-St Louis district Mis-.
sissippi river, s25o,ooo; Mississippi
river between st. Louis and Mime
apolis 100000.
Minnesota-St. Paul district $685.
600; upper Missouri river, 100000;
Cumberland river, $345,000.
Ohio-Cleveland harbor, SITS 900;
Fairport harbor, s25o,oOO; Ohio river
600: lock and dam Number 81, $780,
600: locks and dams between Penn
sylvania state line and Cincinnati, ST.
GO4000.
Kentucky-Kentucky river $450,0O0
Minnesota-Duluth harbor, $797, 900.
Observation-Disclosures, $2SS,462.
Illinois-Chicago tunnels under Chi
cago river, 100000.
/ Northumberland Haven harbor,
1894, 600; Detroit river, s2,75o,oOO.
California-San Diego harbor, $780,
600; San Pedro bay, $100,000; Oak.
land harbor, $521,000.
| Oregon and hington-Columbia
river, $1,164,O0O; Columbia river
/ (mouth) $450000.
| Washington-Gray's harbor, $751;,
900; Puget Sound, $4,000; Tacoma
harbor, $4,000
Hawaii Honolulu harbor, 100000;
Hilo harbor, 100000.
i Pennsylvania-Mon river