The Cairo bulletin., 1910-02-12
p r 0 { CTS COSTING $42.355, ,276
PROVIDED FOR IN THE
BILL
CAIRO'S BIG BENEFITS
S17,5ol $50 for Mississippi fro m
Mouth CT Missouri to Cairo
Canaixation of Ohio
Rj.er

projects costing $42355,276, of which
81 26S,320 is for continuing con
tracts, are provided for in the rivers
and harbors bin, reported to the house
today 1t will be considered Monday
and pressed expeditiously
All the projects already under i'm.
Iprovement aggregate $2520l7,400 in.
Guiding the Mississippi river from
Cairo to the head of the passes. There
are further projects favorably report
ed by the engineers, not yet adopted
| by congress, amounting to $685.
coo.
The amount required to complete
the adopted projects, except the Mis-.
sissippi river totals $7S29,10 for
the Mississippi from the mouth of the
Missouri to Cairo, $11501,6 $50, from
st. Louis to st, Paul $1S,500o00, and
$59,550 for Minneapolis and St
Paul
Besides this, the cost Of projects
which congress presumably intends
to complete, having started them, is
estimated at $9,3i6, 800, and the
eanalization of the Ohio. for a nine
foot depth, adopted in the bin ap-
proved last March, is placed at $780,
$50, 900, making eotal of $l77,617,4oO
which congress may be considered
as committed to-
The bill provides not only increased
appropriations for the various tribu,
taries of the Mississippi, but fixes the
time limit when such permanent i'm
provement of the channels shah %
completed.
The policy adopted in the bill fol
the Mississippi between Cairo and the
Gulf anticipates the expenditure ol
100000 yearly for twenty years
which will complete a permanent i'm
proved nine foot channel from Cairs
TO the Gull
OF the $4,000,000 this year, half IS
carried in the sundry civil bills, Tho
middle Mississippi from the mouth o
| the Missouri to the mouth of the Ohit
Lat Cairo will have a permanent eight
| foot channel $500 feet wide ia twelv,
years, under the bills provision TC
enable the completion in twelve year
| of a six foot channel in the upper
| mississippi from the Missouri river q
st. Paul, the bill carries half mil
| lion in addition to a like amount In
the sundry civil bill
The Missouri river gets a million
and for the Ohio approximately s5,
100000 a year, for the twelve year;
work contemplated.
The bill provides for a board o
engineers to consider in cooperation
with the Illinois authorities for {
waterway from Lockport to the moutl
of the Illinois river, though the pro
posed appropriation of q million fo
this waterway has not yet been mad,
available, pending further affirmative
legislation by congress.
| hiibh6 LlI iAtlllo VI tliC hili diE tH'
following; Marquette 100000; Du
luth and Superior 100000; Chicago
harbor $4,000; Chicago river SITS
600; Calumet river and harbor, $12S,
600; Illinois and Missouri canal SIS,
coo.
Mississippi river between the Ohl'
and Missouri half million: head o
the passes to the mouth of thG Ohio
two million; experimental barges
half a million: between the Missouri
and Minneapolis and st. Paul, half :
million. The fourteen foot waterwa,
from the Lakes to the Gulf, sl,050 00c
| The Missouri river from the moutI
to Sioux City, one million. from the
mouth to Fort Benton, Mont, SITS,
600; at St Joseph, to prevent cut off
$4,000.
The s1.050000 cited in the river;
and harbors projects s the same re
ferred TO in connection with the Lock
! portIlinois river project 1t is no'
available now under the treasury rul
| ing 1t is introduced in the bin to in
dicate the committees willingness K
improve the Illinois river whenever
congress can, by cooperation with tht
state of Illinois.