The Detroit times., 1910-11-28
MICHIGAN TO SET
s1,S84,O00 FOR
WATERWAYS
Gen. Bixbey, Chief Of Engineers, ..
s. A., Submits Its Estimates for
River and Harbor Improvement
for 1911.
Appropriation of $3.50, 900 Il Recon-
mended for the Livingston
Channel.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-Esti-
mates for river and harbor improve
ments, for the fiscal year to end July
d, 1912, as submitted In the annual
report OF Gen. w. II. Bixbey, chief
OF engineers. U. S. A., made public
today, aggregate $22,227, 1861.
The estimates, the report states,
are made particularly low as 1t 10
expected that In the future this work
will be provided for by a fixed an
nual appropriation. Only I'll pro-
jects are selected by Gen. Bixbey a.
worthy OF an appropriation next
year. or the total estimate made, II
Is proposed to spend ten per cent on
the restoration and maintenance or
completed works in 1876 localities.
The bulk of the remaining money
Is to go largely for work on the
Ohio, Mississippi, Detroit, Hudson,
Delaware and Columbia rivers, and
to eleven OF the most important har-
bors.
Among the more important esti-
mates are:
For the Ohio river: for work on
locks and dams, $1,550,000; for OPP
Grating expenses, maintenance. ETC..
81, 100000. Besides this congress- 10
asked to authorize the placing OF con-
tracts for future work amounting To
SIS, 900. 900. There are two special es-
Inmates, one of $155,000 for lock and
dam No. &c, and one of $229,O00 for
open channel work.
The Mississippi river, between st.
Paul and Minneapolis, $250,000: be-
tween Minneapolis and the Missouri
river $1,25O.000; between the Ohio
and Missouri river, 100000; i'm
provement of the southwest pass OF
the Mississippi, $450,000, and preser-
walton work on southwest pass, $780,
000
Detroit river, Livingstone Channel,
$3.50, 900; general Improvement, $275,-
900: Columbia river, above Celtic
Falls, to Snake river. $4,000: Celtic
Falls to the Dales Rapids. 100000;
below Portland, Oregon, $4,000;
Mouth of the river, $950,000.
The following appropriations are
recommended for other Michigan wa
terways:
st. Marys river, 100000; Sag.
NAV river, 100000; Ludington har-
Dor, $229,O0O; Marquette, $4,000:
Manistique harbor, $13s,462; South
Haven, $198,0O0; Grand Haven, $34,-
900; Saugatuck, 100000; Muskegon,
$40 900; Manistee, 10000; Frank
fort, $4,000; Alpena, $4,000; Rouge
river. $4,000; Monroe harbor, $1,000;
and Clinton river, $4,000.
T. Here are some other estimates:
Galveston harbor. $155,000; chan
mel, $125,000; channel to Texas City,
$4,000; to Port Boliver, $4,000;
Cleveland harbor, Ohio, 100000:
Fairport harbor, Ohio, s150,000; Fox
river, Wisconsin, $4,000; Ashtabula
harbor, Ohio, $376,430; Conneaut har-
Dor, Ohio, 100000; Black Rock har-
Dor, New York, 100000; Osweg0
harbor, N. ", $4,000; Los Angeles
harbor. California, $270,000; San
Luis Obispo harbor, California, $780,
900; San Francisco harbor, $4,000:
Oakland harbor, $4,000; Humboldt
harbor and bay, CAL, $2S5,000; Gray's
Harbor Washington, 100000; Sno-
homish river, Washington. $4,000:
no specific appropriation is asked for
the lakes-to-the-gulf project nor for
the Houston, Texas, ship channel;
Black Warrior, Warrior and Tombis-
bee rivers, Alabama, $4,000: To
ledo harbor, Ohio, $4,000; San Joe-
quin river, Cal, $4,000; Coal Bay
and harbor, Oregon, $4,000.