The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-11-29
REPORT or CHIEF or ENcl
NEERs CALLS FOR $780,,
le5,6e8 THIS YEAR.
CAIRO SOUTH s3,00O,OO0
From Cairo to Mouth Of Missouri
River ooo--ohio Riyer
$2,ooo,ooo For e-Foot
Channel to Cairo.

tions needed for liyer and harbof
work for tile fiscal year ending June
80, 1912, aggregate $30,095.69S, ac-
coraing to estimates made public to-
cay by Secretary Of War Dickinson
in the form of report made to him
by Brig. Gen w. H. Bixby. chief of
engineers of the nited States army.
These figures will be sent to con
gress by Secretary OF the Treasury
MacVeagh and legislation in accor'i-
ance Herewith will be recommended
ny President TAFT In his annual mes
sage. The estimates are divided as
follows
nder continuing contracts. $ 13GS,07i
Rivers and harbors (gen-
era, including Missis-
sippi river commission,
and examinations, sur
veys and contingencies. 22,G273G1
Under California Debris
commission (expenses) :. $4,000
Prevention of deposits in
Many pet projects calling Tor the
expenditure of large sums have been
omitted from the estimates this year.
Among taese are the IA foot channel
from Chicago to the Illinois river,
deep channel for the Missouri river
from st. Louis to Kansas City and
from Kansas City north, as well NJ
many Others which faye had as t'eTr
champions members Of both hc.l&os
OF congress who insisted strenHousIy
tt t4ese projects be not forgotten.
The elimination OF many Ct the i'm
rrovements which have formed parts
or river and harbor bills in the past
ia in accordance with the insstence
of President Taft that pork barrel
measures shall be strangled. In
structious were G ven to the engineer
officers Of the army to prepare est
1aates only for such projects as arc
absolutely needed or which give GER
tain promise to reduce the cost OF
Transportation BY opening up new
water FUul6S anu eHldl 5lHE Sblht VI
those already existing.
The general estimates aggregatine
more than $22,000,o00 are applied TO
21i works Of this amount about Il
rti' cent Is for the restoration or
maintenance Of completed projects
at 1875 localities, so as to secure th4
continuance OF benefits resulting
from past expenditures. Practically
seventy per cent is for the prosecn
ion OF work on the Ohio, Mississipp;
Detroit, Hudson. De-aWare and Co
hrmbia rivus and at eleven import
ant harbors. The remaining ~Wenty
rer cent Is for the prosecution and
completion of eightytwo othel
works.
General Bixby says in his repo.
that liberal ap opriations are con
sidered proper and desirable for snag
ging and other work necessary t
make natural channels available
wherever water-bcen commerce ex
lists or is reasonably prospective. Im
prC"----snents adopted by congress, an,
rot provided sor in the estimates
have been omitted, either on accoun
OF lack o. urgendy or of relative i'm
portance, or on account Of defective
projects which were adopted man,
years ago and are III need of reexami
nation with view TO revision D
abandonment.
Included in the total Of $22,G27,3G
which the chief Of engineers believe
to be necessary fcr expenditures dur
ing the year ending June so, 1912, i
lump sum of 100000 for examins
tlons, survey and contingencies TO
which there may be no special al
preparation. The estimates follow:
ALABAMA Mobile harbor, for
depth Of n feet, $505, 900; Mobfi
har, $500; Alabama river, includia
Coosa river mp to Wetumpka, SIS
600; Black Warrior, Warrior an
Tombigbee rivers, for locks an
dams 100000; Improvement to Ton
bigbee river $4,000.
MISSISSIPPI Gulfport harbo
$4,000; Horn Island Pass, $4,000
Pearl river $500; Yazoo river AN
tributaries, etc, $12,500.
LOUISIANA IMPROVING Sout
west Pass, Mississippi river, s45c
COO; Bayou Teche, 100000, removin
water hyae'nth in Louisiana an
Texas, $1,000.
ARKANSAS--Re river for mai
tenance below Fulton, $4,000, an
between Fulton and Denison, Texa
$4,000; Ouchita river and Blac
river. construction OF locks az
dams, Nos. Q. 4. 6 and s. s292,0i
Arkansas river at Pine Bluff, $3.50