The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-29
|BHlGlN TO GET
|5L,s84,000 FOR
WATERWAYS
0sn. Bixbey, Chief Of Engineers, o.
3. A., Submits. Its Estimates for
River and Harbor Improvement
y for 1911.
Appropriation of 10000 Is Recon-.
mended for the Livingston
\ Channel.

b WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-Esti'
mates for river and harbor improve
{nepts, for the fiscal year to end July
~, 1912, as submitted in the annual
REPORT of Gen. w. Fl. Bixbey, CHIEF
q OF engineers, U. s. A., made pupic
To-day, aggregate $22,227,S61.
The estimates. the report states
i are made particularly low as 1t Is
kexpected that In the future this work
! will be provided for by a fixed an
'lnual appropriation. Only I'll pro-
\ 1ects are selected by Gen. Bixbey as
EMorthy OF an appropriation next
syear. OF the total estimate made, IL
Is proposed TO spend ten per cent on
1.-THE restoration and maintenance Oh
lcompleted works in 1876 localities.
x The bulk OF the remaining money
- to 60 largely for work on the
Ohio, Mississippi, Detroit. Hudson
Delaware and Columbia rivers, ana
10 eleven of the most important har-
,bors.
Among the more important esti-
MATES are:
For the Ohio river: for work on
locks and dams, 81 100000; for OPP
Grating expenses, maintenance, etc.
4 ~ ,OOO, 900. Besides this congress Is
(. asked to authorize the placing OF COLI
tracts for future work amounting 10
IS 900, 900. There are two special es-
fimates, one OF $155,000 for lock and
dam No. &c, and one OF $229,OOO Tor
open channel work.
The Mississippi river, between st.
Paul and Minneapolis, $250,OOO; PC
tween Minneapolis and the Missouri
river $1,250,000; between the Ohio
and Missouri river. $1,0O0,OOO; I'M
provement OF the southwest pass OF
the Mississippi. $450,000, and preser-
ration work on southwest pass, $4oO,-
Detroit river, Livingstone Channel.
$4,000; general improvement, $215,'
600: Columbia river, above Celtic
Falls, to Snake river, $4,000; Celtic
Falls to the Dales Rapids, 100000;
below Portland, Oregon, $loO,OOO;
Mouth OF the river, $950.000.
The following appropriations are
recommended for other Michigan wa.
terways:
st. MAry's river, 100000; Sag
inaw river, 100000 Ludington har-
Dor, 1229,000; Marquette, $SS,0OO;
Manistique harbor, S13S,462; South
Haven, $4,000; Grand Haven, 1884,
900; Saugstuck, $4,000: Muskegon,
$4,000; Manistee, $4,000; Frank
fort, $4,000: Alpena, 10000: Rouge
river, $1,000; Monroe harbor, $4,000;
and Clinton river, $4,000.
Here are some other estimates:
Galveston harbor, $155,000; chan
mel, $126,000: channel to Texas City,
$4,000; to Port Boliver, SEE, 1000;
Cleveland harbor, Ohio, 100000;
Fairport harbor, Ohio. $4,000; Fox
river, Wisconsin. $4,000; Ashtabula
harbor, Ohio, $376,4S0; Conneaut har-
Dor, Ohio. 100000; Black Rock har-
Dor, New York, 100000; Oswego
harbor, N. ", $4,000; Los Angeles
harbor, California, $4,000; San
Luis Obispo harbor, California, $1l0,-
900; San Francisco harbor, 100000;
Oakland harbor, $4,000; Humboldt
harbor and bay, CAL, $2S5,000; Gray's
Harbor washington, 100000; Sno-
homish river, Washington, $4,000;
no specifc appropriation is asked for
the lakes-to-the-gulf project nor for
The Houston, Texas, ship channel;
Black Warrior, Warrior and Tombig-
bee rivers, Alabama, 100000: To
nedo harbor, Ohio, $4,000; San Joa-
Quin river, Cal, $4,000; Coal Bay
and harbor, Oregon, $4,000.