Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-17
CONGRESS TO GIVE AID TO Elk.
TENsIvE WATER TRAFFIC
IMPROVEMENTS.
GRAIN FROM DULUTH TO
ATLANTIC sEABoARD BY WATER
New York State Canals to Aid in Re-
dueins Price Of cereaI.-Reduetio
of to Cents May Result-other
Projects Call for Appropriation Of
$45,oooo 1000.
Especial correspondence.1
s45,ooo,ooo.

Washington, March lit is expect.
ed that the river and harbor bill
which the commerce committee Of the
senate has had under consideration fol
| the past month, will be reported this
week, carrying in the neighborhood Of
S46,000,00O for river and harbor i'm.
provements-an increase of four to six
millions over the house bill.
A careful canvass of the senate COM
mittee shows a divided sentiment as
to the appropriation, which is not an
appropriation, but recognition of the
lakes-to- the-gulf project, and it is ex-
tremely doubtful if the provision in the
house bill could be retained in it's pres
ent form if a vote We're taken today
When the bill is reported, however, il
is thought Senator Lorimer, of Illi-
nois who is the father of the project
may be able to muster votes enough
to hold the provision in the bill.
In all probability the committee will
generously provide for thirty five foot
channel with suitable width in the Del
aware river from Allegheny avenue,
Philadelphia to the sea, distance OF
some sixty-three miles but as there is
a stretch of eight miles where there
is an existing depth of thirty-five feet
at mean low water the length of the
river to be improved is only fifty five
miles the cost of which Is estimated at
100000.
A half million for Saginaw, Mich,
is being stoutly urged and the chances
seem good that this project will be
taken care Of in the bill, as will larger
appropriations for the Potomac and
Norfolk harbor.
From Duluth to the Sea.
Another project which will undoubt-
eddy receive favorable consideration is
the Improvement of the Hudson river
below Troy. The report of Colonel
Black, of the engineer corps of the
army, on the Hudson river project, was
not received by congress until two
weeks after the bill had passed the
house and under the law no appro-
priations can be provided for projects
which have not received the endorse
ment of the board of engineers.
The state is spending upwards Of
hundred million dollars to provide i
channel twelve feet deep for a dis
lance of about 300 miles from Buffalo
to Troy as well as from Lake Cham
pain 10 lue SdIic punt Will d COl.
lateral branch running northward to
the st. Lawrence river. When this
vast work is completed, which will be
within the next five years, there will
be continuous channel twelve feet
deep thru the entire state of New
York and what is Of equal Importance
this channel will be free as no tolls are
exacted by the state.
It is expected that when the bill is
reported to the senate it will carry an
item providing for this entire work and
something over a mil
lion for beginning the project during
the next fiscal year and will incident
ally provide that it shall be completed
by the time the pending Improvements
on the canals are finished.
Means Cheaper Grain.
This great work will enable vessel
drawing 10 or IL feet of water to
traverse the lakes from Duluth to Buff
falo and thence by the way Of the Erie
canal and the Hudson to New York
without breaking bulk, or the larger
vessels will simply have to transfer
their cargoes at Buffalo from mammoth
lake steamers to thousand barges
which can proceed without interruption
thru to the sea board. The combined
work of the state of New York and
the general government will, it is es-
timated, cheaper the price of grain
from three to five cents bushel.