The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-20
Are Being Spent and viii be Spent on
River Work at keokuk and in
Burlington Government
District.
THE LATEST RIVER DOPE
Fleets Are Being Put In Condition
For the First Signs Of Wealth.
err Opening to Get
Busy.

Figures give fair idea many times
Of the magnitude Of work being done
calculating in actual cost. When the
work is performed locally-the great
Ell the thrill of satisfaction.
More than s150,00O worth of gov
eminent work on new obstruction and
repair of partly new river apparatus, is
now being done at the dry docks OF
the second lock of the canal, by the
more than half hundred mechanical
employees.
Three new dredges that will alone
cost s9S.400 are under way of con-
struction at the present TING and will
be placed in river service Just as soon
as completed Other new parapher-
Malta used by Uncle Sam in dredge
work, shore protection and other de.
partments Of keeping the Mississippi
river in trim in this district are with
their cost, as follows:
Three quarter boats, $4,000 each;
three fuel floats, $1,000 each: thirty
dredging pontoons, 5000 each: one
fuel float, $4,000: five stone barges,
$1,000 each: one new quarter boat.
$4,000; one building steam boat,
$4,000; one grass hopper, $500.
Repairing the Fleet.
The steamer Lucia of the govern
ment feet is to be entirely rebuilt.
That boat. with several others, are
now at the dry dock where they have
been quartered for the winter and
with the opening of navigation and
first activity on river repair work, will
be out in the spring with their compile
ments of barges, getting busy.
On the Henry Bosse. $3.50 will be
spent for repairs. New planking,
Strengthening ad callSing will be the
work on the .Bosse. Dredga No. )
of the government feet, the "Etna'
which was builtfla season, will have
! $3.50 in repairs and overhauling gen
orally.
! The dredge "Hecla, will take ST.
| 500 in repairs. Ninety dollars will
be spent for repairs on office boat
! No. so. Coal fiat No. 81. will be re
paired to the extent of $3.50. In fix
ing UP the little motor slliffs used in
river work. $3.50 will be spent. TIC
| the government steamer Grace, over
hauling and refitting will amount tc
| $3.50.
Ten new steel pontoons that vii
compose the feet of barges used by
the dredge Hecla, will cost $1,000. The
new hull on one of the office boats
will mean an expenditure of $780, Tht
| Coal Bluff, zone of the government:
river steamers, will require $500 fol
repairs.
Repairs to the lighthouse launcl
will come to about $500. Two TOW
boats with steel hulls will cost $50,
600 each.
4 Yearly Allowance.
4 To begin the season on the rive
with the Burlington to Hannibal dis
trict has $4,000 with which to com
mence work This money will b
spent in restoration of dam and shor4
projections. Cotton Wood island. nea
Quincy, will be the first place of ac
tive work as soon as the river open
4 up.
i Dredging in the district from Burl
ington to Hannibal will cost some
thing like $4,000 and at Quinc.
alone, $4,000 will be used of the al
), preparation. For day labor between
Burlington and Hannibal, $4,000 vii
be paid.
!, Just what appropriation is to b
made this year for river work in th