The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-28
Appropriations Needed For River
and Harbor Work For Next
Fiscal Year Total
$30,095,698
s2,O24,54s FOR MICHIGAN
President Taft's insistence That "Pork
Barrel" Measures Shall be Stran-
eIed is Followed by the
Engineers.

washington Nov. 2S.-Appropria-
tions needed for river and harbor work
for the fiscal year ending June 80
1912, aggregate $3O095,69S, according
to estimates made public today by
Secretary of War Dickinson in the
form of a report made To him by Brig
Gen. w. III. Bixby, Chief of Engineers
of the United States Army. These
figures will be sent to Congress by
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh
and legislation in accordance there
with will be recommended by Presi-
dent Taft in his annual message The
estimates are divided as follows:
Under continuing contracts.$ 7,36S,077
Rivers and harbors (gener-
al, including Mississippi
River Commission, and
examinations. surveys and
contingencies ............ 22,627 1861
Under California Debris
Commission (Expenses).. $4,000
Prevention of deposits in
New York Harbor .... S5,260
Many Pet Projects Omitted.
Many pet projects calling for the
expenditure of large sums have been
omitted from the estimates this year.
Among these are the fourteen-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
as many others which have had as
their champions members of both
houses of congress, who insisted siren
uously that these projects be not for
gotten.
The elimination of many Of the i'm
provements which have formed parts
of river and harbor bills in the past
is in accordance with the insistence of
President Taft that pork barrel
measures shall be strangled. lnstruc-
tions were given to the engineer Off
GERS of the army to prepare estimates
only for such projects as are absolute
ly needed or which give certain prom
Use To reduce the cost of transportation
by opening up new water routes and
enlarging some of those already exist
ing.
Work That Will Be Done.
The general estimates aggregating
more than $22,00OO00 are applied to
211 works. OF this amount about 10
per cent is for the maintenance OF
completed projects at 1876 localities, so
as to secure the continuance of bene-
fits resulting from past expenditures.
Practically seventy per cent is for the
prosecution of work on the Ohio. Mis-
sissippi. Detroit, Hudson, Delaware
and Columbia rivers and 1T eleven inn
portant harbors. The remaining twen-
ty per cent Is for the prose tion and
completion of eighty-two otler works.
General Bixby says in his report
that liberal appropriations are consid-
cred proper and desirable for snagg-
ing and other work necessary to make
natural channels available wherever
water-born commerce exists or Is rea-
sonably prospective. Improvements
adopted by congress, and not provid-
ed for in the estimates. have been
omitted either on account of suffi-
cheney of funds now available, on ac-
Importance or on account of defective
projects which were adopted many
years ago and are in need of re-exam-
ination with view to revision or
abandonment.
Included in the total OF s22,627,S61.
which the chief of engineers believes
to be necessary for expenditures dur
I'm q n
lump sum OF 100000 for examinations,
survey and contingencies for which
there may be no special appropria-
tion.
Mississippi River Work.
The estimates for Mississippi river
work are as follows:
Continuing improvements from head
of Passes to the mouth of the ohio
river, including expenses of Mississtp-
pi river commission, s3.O00,000; from
mouth of Ohio river to the Missouri
river, 1000. 900: from the Missouri
river to Minneapolis. s1.250,000; con-
structlon CT lock and dam between ST.
Paul and Minneapolis S250,000.
Michigan Estimates.
The estimates for Michigan are.
Har'bor at Alpena, 10000; Frank
fort, 10000; Grand Haven, $4,000;
Grand Marais. 10000; Holland. $i6,-
900; Ludington, 10000; Manistee,
$4,000: Manistique, s13s.462: Mar
ouette Bay, $4,000: Marquette. sSs.o0o;
and Muskegon. 10000; improving Ka-
iamazoo river $4,000; BLACK river.
$4,000; Clinton river. $4,000; Detroit
river. $4,000; Rouge river, $4,000.
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