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
er the thrill of satisfaction.
More than s15O,000 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 ssS,400 are under way of con-
struction at the present time 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, $500 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, $780,
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
I On the Henry Bosse. $3.50 will be
spent for repairs. New planking
Strengthening ad calking will be the
| work on the Posse Dredge No. {
Of the government fleet. the +Etna.''
which was built last 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. 80. Coal fiat No. "a. will be re
paired to the extent of $3.50 In fix
/ ing up the little motor slliffs used III
river work, $3.50 will be spent. TIC
the government steamer Grace. over
hauling and refitting will amount te
| $3.50.
| Ten new steel pontoons that viii
| bn of |, NV
the dredge Hecla, will cost $1,000 The
new hull on one of the office boats
will mean an expenditure of 5000. The
Coal Bluff, zone of the government
river steamers, will require $500 fol
repairs.
Repairs to the lighthouse launch
will come to about $500. Two tow
boats with steel hulls will cost $50,
| 600 each.
Yearly Allowance.
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 BIZ
spent in restoration of dam and shor4
projections. Cotton Wood island, nca
Quincy, will be the first place of ac
| tive work as soon as the river opens
up.
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 ap
preparation. For day labor between
Burlington and Hannibal, $4,000 viii
be paid.
Just what appropriation is to b.
made this year FOR river work in th,
/ BURLINGTON district has NOT vet hnel