Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-28
APPROPRIATION FOR DEEP CHAN.
MEL FROM CHICAGO TO RIVER
NOT RECOMMENDED.
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS
MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS
Report Calls For Appropriation Total
ina $40 100000 For Rivers and Har-
bor.-Laros Part Of Sum 10 For
Work Now Under Way or For Pro-
teetina That Already Accomplished.

Washington, Nov. IS. - Approprla :
tions needed for river and harbor work
for the fiscal year ending June 80. l912'
azeregate $30,095, ,69s, according to es-
Inmates made public today by Secretary
of War Dickinson In the form Of re-
port made to him by Brig. Gen. w.
H, Eixby. chief Of engineers OF the
United States army. These figures will
be sent to congress by Secretary OF
the Treasury MacVeagh and legisla-
ton in accordance herewith Will be
recommended by President Taft in his
annual message. The estimates are
divided as follows:
Under continuing contracts. .$7,36s,0'1
Rivers and harbors general
including Mississippi river
commission :. Z2,o2 ''oo1
Under California debris COM
mission (expenses). ......... 10000
Prevention OF deposits in
New York harbor. so'2oo
Many Projects Omitted.
MANY pet projects calling for the ex-
penditure Of large sums have been
omitted from the estimates this year.
Among these are the 14-foot channel
from Chicago to the Illinois river, deep
hcannel for the Missouri river from ST.
Iouis to Kansas City and from Kan
g; CITY north, as we'll as many others
which have had as their champions
members OF both houses or congress
who insisted strenuously that these
projects be not forgotten.
The elimination OF many OF the I'M
oroyements which have formed parts
u river and harbor bills in the past Is
In accordance with the insistence OF
President Taft that pork barreE meas
ures shall be strangled. Instructions
.sra given to the engineer officers OF
we army to prepare estimates only for
( .uch projects as are absolutely needed
,r which give certain promise to reduce
The cost Of transportation by opening
IN new water routes and enlarStng
some Of those already existing.
Projects Benefited.
The general estimates aggregating
more than $22.000,000 are applied 10 I'll
works. OF this amount about 10 per
cent is for the restoration or mann
tenance of completed projects at lo6
localities. so as to secure the contin-
nance of benefits resulting from past
expenditures. Practically 20 per cent
is for the prosecution Of work on the
Ohio. Mississippi. Detroit. Hudson.
Delaware and Columbia rivers and at
eleven important harbors. The re-
manning 90 per cent is for the prosecu-
zion and completion of eighty-two otn-
er works.
General Bixby says in his report that
liberal appropriations are consloe1eu u
proper and desirable for snagglng anu
other work necessary to make natural
channels available wherever water
born commerce exists or is reasonably
prospective. Improvements adopted by
congress, and not provided for in the
estimates, have been omitted, either
on account Of sufficiency of funds now
available, on account of lack OF urgen-
cy. or of relative Importance. or on ac-
count Of defective projects which were
adopted many years ago and are m
need of denomination with view 10
revision or abandonment.
Included in the total Of $22,627,3
which the chief OF engineers believes to
be necessary for expenditures during
the year ending June 80. 1912, is a lump
sum OF 100000 for examinations, sur
yey and contingencies for which there
NAV be no special appropriation. The
estimates include the following Missis-
sippi river improvements:
Continuing improvements from head
of Passes to the mouth OF the Ohio
river. including expenses of Mississippi
river commission, $3.000.00O; from
mouth of Ohio river to the Missouri
river, 100000; from the Missouri
river to Minneapolis. $1.250.00O; con-
struction of lock and dam between St.
Paul and Minneapolis, $250.000.