The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-25
URGE MILLIONS
TO MAKE NEWARK
GREAT SEAPORT
Advisory Dock and Meadow
Commissioners Report Big Pos
sibilities to Board of Works.
TELL WHAT CAN BE DONE
WITH AVAILABLE 100000
Recommend Canal Through
Meadows and Reclamation of
Vast City Tract.
POPULATION 100000
IN 1850, THEY PREDICT
Estimates Given for StupendOus
Waterway and Docks Project.
Railroads IndOrse Plans.
POPULATION 100000
IN 1850, THEY PREDICT

Details of the plan to make Newark
a deep sea port wero submitted today
to the Board of Works by the Advisory
Dock and Meadow Reclamation Com
mission, and 1t is possible that the
dream of a century will soon be real
ized
The commission, in brief, favors the
digging of a canal through the mead
ows and using the dirt thus excavated
in filing in the meadows to make city
streets and blocks.
The commission predicts a population
fer Newark of 100000 in 1850.
Assuming that the area to be re-
claimed in the transformation of New
ark into seaport is 1,150 acres, the
commission proposes a canal 700 feet
wide and occupying 200 acres of sur
face. This leaves $50 acres to be re-
claimed from the meadows into serv-
iceable city property. Then, assuming
that the cost of filing this land by
dredging from the proposed canal to
be 16 cents a cubic yard, the cost of
improvement of a lot 25x100 feet would
be as follows: Filling LOLA cubic yards,
$16224; seweriag. water mains, pave
ments, Tagging, etc, s2Ss.S5; total cost
per lot, S45059 cost per acre, $5,4O70S;
for the Improvement of $50 acres, $5,-
1876, 726; cost of improving $50 acres
without using canal dredgings, $9,066,-
500; difference, $39S0,074.
"These figures would show that If the
land were purchased and merely canal
dug" the report reads, "and the ex-
cayated material used for filling the
lots, there would be saving of nearly
$4,000, 900 in the reclamation of about
1000 acres Allowing for the loss of the
land taken for the canal, and not TAX
ing into consideration any use Of the
canal for Industrial and shipping devel-
opments. it is, therefore, manifest that
the most economical treatment of the
meadows is by excavating such
canal"
Assuming, as a basis for development,
tha fact that the best aggregate eco
nonical result can be obtained by the
construction of a canal, which would
effectually reclaim the adjacent terri
tory. the commission outlines the fol-
lOWluS ESilSi III pan 80 N'Sfo N "
Oco, 900 now available
"a ssuming one acre of canal excava-
tion will approximately fill and reclaim
four acres of meadow land" the report
ssvs. 1--WE recommend that the territory
N he acquired be that extending from
the west shore line of Newark Bay,
westerly to Avenue A and bounded on
the north and south by lines parallel
from thn centre
~ Peddie street except at the north
west corner where the boundary would
he the right of way of the New York
po,y railroad. In addition to this, it is
strongly recommended that the present
,,;ar line of Newark Bay be moved
easterlv to conform to the extension OF
the existing pier line at the Lenleh
Valley Railroad. and the plan of devel-
opment is designed to be IN conformity
Herewith ,- D.,
Mil he greater than the minimum
width established by the Secretary OF
war for the Hudson River between the
citv of New York and the Jersey shore'
=. will be necessary to appeal to the
War Department for consent LOT TINS
ohonee and II is earnestly urged that
such an appeal De liiliIte"i"t'
Providing for the Future.
"The possibilities of continued in
orease of wharfage on upper New YORK
raw at a rate sufficient to care for the
nrobable increase in ocean tonnage
were Investigated. Aside from possible
alterations and the resulting addltlohs
IN the wharfage room on the Hudson
Diver only certain tracts of the Brook
ivn and Staten Island shores are avail
able without very great expense The
latter @ aggregate about 10000 lineal feet
Of water front, and could be made to
nrovide NJ 25O,OOO feet of wharfage This
tagether with what will be made avail
sbIe on the Hudson River, will prob
abIy provide wharfage room to care
for all requirements for the next NJ
teen years, but the railroad coniiec'ioi's
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