Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
PLANS FOR
SHIP CANAL FROM
BAY TO DELAWARE
Resolution Providing for Pur.
chase of Right of Way to
Be Presented.
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TRENTON, Jan. 2o.-Belieying that
by the display of a proper spirit Of CO.
operation on the part of New Jersey
the Federal government can be per
suaded to undertake the construction
of a ship cam across the State. the
Deeper Waterways Commission Will
ask the Legislature TO appropriate
100000 for the purchase of property
for q right of way. The commission
was appointed by Governor Fort about
four months ago as a result of a con-
ference Of the Philadelphia Trenton
New York Deeper Waterways Asocia-
ton. at the State House, which the
governor was requested to appoint a
committee OF five to cooperate with a
committee of fifty of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association looking
toward the construction of the proposed
mi and the development of the in
land waterways of this and other coast
States.
Resolution Ia Drafted.
Governor Fort named David Baird,
of Camden; Peter Campbell, of New
ark; Samuel Heilner, OF Matawan;
Benjamin +. s. Brown and Frederick
Donnelly, Of this city. The commits
sion met here yesterday and after a
lengthy conference called in Assistant
Attorney-Genera Nelson B. daskill,
who drafted a joint resolution, which
will be presented to the Legislature
next Monday night.
The proposed canal, surveys for
which have been drawn by United
States army engineers, is to connect
New York bay with deep water In the
Delaware river at B~ordentown, and
will act as a link in the intra-coastal
system of inland waterways extending
from Maine to Florida.
In order to bring about the construc-
ton of this mi Its completion
within as short a time as possible, the
joint resolution provides that when the
Federal authorities shall finally settle
upon a route and mako provision for
its construction by suitable appropria-
ton. New Jersey shall acquire tho
necessary right of way. by purchase or
condemnation, and cede the property
thus purchased to the United States
government, upon condition that IL
shall construct and maintain the canal
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world, without tolls or charges. for the
passage of vessels or freight.
Cost Not to Exceed s5O0,Oo
There is a provlso In the resolution,
however, that the cost of acquiring the
requisite property shall not exceed
$500, 900, "or such sum as may be APP
p~ropriated by the Legislature for that
purpoS at the time when such an
preparation and other legislation neces-
sary to carry into effect the imposes
Of this resolution snail become neces-
sary and appropriate"
In discussing the proposed canal the
commission asserts that Upon informa-
ton received from the chief of en-
gineers of the army, under whose direc-
ton the survey wal made, the right OF
way will require about 1000 acres of
land, the cost OF which, including dam
age claims for water rights ex-
tinguished, is estimated to be about
$500, 900.
The commission says that the bene-
fits which will accrue to the State by
reason of the construction of the pro-
posed canal would be sufficient TO war
ram this expenditures; that 1t will en-
courage various industries of the State
by affording a more ready method of
communication and transportation be-
tween points within this State and
other points In this country and
abroad, and tina 1t will be a particu-
larly important part of the other inland
waterways proposed along the Atlantic
coast States.