The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-23
Appropriations Made
=: / for Rivers and.
iarbOrS Improvement
by Associated Press


Washington, Nov. 23.-Estimates
TOR continuing the work OF river and
harbOr improvement throughout the
country. made public at tho War De-
partment today and covering the lis
cal year ending June 80, 1913, show
a strict adherence to the new ad-
ministratiOn policy of asking Con-
gress to appropriate only for those
Improvements which have received
the approval of the Army Corps Of
engineers after the most thorough in
vestigation. No new projects Of any
great Importance are provided for 10
the estimates and unless Congress
takes the bit in its teeth and disrc-
CARDS the recommendations of Gen
eral W. H. Bixby, Chief Of Engineera
the pork barrel" method Of river
and harbOr work will have been elm
mated for second year.
The appropriations asked fer ae-
gregate $2Y,63S,6yS as against $780,
1884, Tor the current year. The
estimates viii be sent 10 Congress
by the secretary OF the Treasury ana
president lat in ms message VIA
urge that they be strictly .,d'.Creu
to. Appropriations asked ior m the
southern states follow:
FLORIDA rernandlna harbor. sl5,-
900; ST. JOINS River. ba: to Jack
sonvillc, $GOO.O0O; Jacksonville 10
Palalka, $1,000; Palatka 10 Lake
uarney. 1000; Oklawaha River,
$o,VUU; hey West harhOr aud Ell
trance $4,000; Caloosahatrhce Rl.-
er. puntarasa to For, Thompson,
s., 900; Sarasota Bay, Sl:."o0; MALI
aztec River, $4,000; Tampa Bay,
$4,000; Hillsboro Bay. 100000;
Withlacoochcc River. $1,000; Apa-
lachicola River, $1,000; Holmes
River. $1,000.
Alabama & haltahOochee River,
Columbus to Apalachicola River soo,-
600; channel from ApalachicOla Xiv
er to st. Andrews Bay. $4,000,
ihoctawatchee River, $4,000; Es-
Gambia and Conecuh Rivers. 5000;
Alabama River, $4,000; Coosa Xiv
er, Rome, Ga, to Lock No. I, Ala.
$40. 900; Lock No. 1 and Dana NO.
}, $l.4,OU0; Mobile Harbor, $l0O,-
VO0: removing distractions IN Mo-
bile larbor, $4,000; Mobile Ear,
$40 900: Black Warrior. Warriar
and Tomborgbecs Rivers. Locks and
Dams, $500. 900; TOmbigbee River,
mouth to Dcmopolis. $4,000; De-
mopolis to Columbus, Miss, $4,000;
Tennessee River below Riverton'
$4,000.
Mississippi Pascagoula River
$40. 900; Horn Island Pass, $1,000;
Biloxi Harbor, $4,000; Gulfport Har-
Dor and Ship Island Pass 100000;
Wolf and Jordan Rivers. $4,000;
Pearl River. $4,000; Mouth OF
Yazoo and Harbor at vicksburg. So
900; Yazoo, Tallahatchie, COldwater.
North Carolina -Scuppernong Riv-
er. $4,000; Shallowbag Bay, $1,000;
Fishing Creek. tributary of Tar Riv-
er. $1,000; Pamlico and Tar Rivers,
$4,000; Bay River $1,000; Content
mia Creek. $4,000: Neuse ard Trent
Rivers, $4,000; Swift Creek, $500;
Pamlico Sound Beaufort Inlet inland
waterway, $4,000; Beaufort Earbor.
$1,000; Beaufort Inlet, $1,000
Morehead City harbor $l."OO; New
River, including inland waterways
between beduIOIl IL WI az" - :"
River and between .\ew ci": and
Swansboro, $500; Nor'h'as' ~.
Black Rivers, and Caoe Fear Rive
above Wilmington, si2p"o' zap"
Fear River. above W.'min ,'on 30 k
and dams). $4,000,
South CarOlina-Waccamaw River
$4,000; Great Pedee River, $40
900; Winyah Bay, sll2.0"o; San
tee, Wateree, and Congaree Rivers
and Estherville Minim Creek Canal,
$4,000; Inland waterways between
Charleston and Alligator Creek. sl',-
900.
Georgia Savannah harbor, $500,
OO0; Savannah River below Augusta.
100000; above Augusta, $1,000;
Altama Oconee and Ocmulgee Rivers.
$50, 900; Brunswick harbor, s33,23o;
Inside water route between Savan-
nah and Fernandina $4,000; Flint
River $4,000.