The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-17

Riysr and narbor Projects 81 state.
washing ton. here are et,zne inter.
the statements In the reporx Of the
chief OF engineersof the United STATES
army for 1914 concerning North Caro-
lima river and harbor projects The
state gets her share Of the $40, 900 900
provided in the last river and harbor
Dill but many Of the projects already
commenced win suffer,1if additional
money is not provided soon
During the fiscal year, ending Juna
30 1914, the United States operated
the inland waterway from Norfolk to
Beaufort Inlet at a cost of 19,774.O1,
exclusive of outstanding liabilities.
The freight that passed through the
canal amounted TO 258,441 tons. The
total number Of passengers carried
We're $3.50. The vessels that passed
through numbered 5,342.
The scuppernong River project had
an unexpended balance of s32,487
July /, and the chief of engineers says
that $5,40O could be profitably expend-
ed in the fiscal year ending June@80,
1916.
Fishing Greek has available Tor the
year ending June 80, 1915, $1,467.54
and could use $4,000 the next year.
improvements in the waterway con-
Meeting Swan Quarter Bay with. Deep
Bay here rendered navigation safe
between Swan Quarter and Pamlico
River. The freight transported in
that waterway last year was 1881
tons more than that of the previous
year.
Bay River has $1,205.64 to run till
June 80 next and could use So, 400 the
year following.
The Neuse River improvements
were followed by an increase of traffic
last year of 60,820 tons in grain,
lumber, fertilizers and general mer..
chandise. The engineer has allotted
$4,000 for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1915.
The increase in tonnage in the
Trent River for year after the i'm
provements were made amounted to
1929 tons.
The inland waterway from Pam
completed.
A number Of new projects are plan
ned by che chief of engineers. It is
considered advisable to improve
northeast Cape Fear river for three
miles above Hilton Bridge; Manteo
Bay at a, cost of $4,000 with $4,000
annually for maintenance; Cape
Channel at cost of $1,000; Beau
fort Harbor by providing turning
basin in front of the town of Beau
fort for $4,000 and Thoroughfare
Bay, at a cost of 5000.
! The Cotton Fund Committee.
The North Carolina Committee for
the Wade Cotton Loan Fund appoint
ed by the General Committee in Wash
ington met here in organization and
made tentative appointments of local
committees in about 20 sections of the
state, whose duty it will be to receive
and turn in the applications for loans
! in administering North Cardinals por-
ton of the $4,000 cotton pool.
These committees will have to be ap-
proved by the General Committee at
Washington before they are announc-
ed. J. F. Wiley of Durham was made
secretary Of the North Carolina Com
mittee, Joseph G. Brown having been
designated as chairman by the Wash
ington committee.
Members of the committee partici.
pating in the meeting we're Chairman
Brown, Raleigh; Secretary j. F. Wiley
Durham; ]. Elwood Cox, High Point;
Neill Ellington, Greensboro. Absent
members were George Stepehns and
w. c. Wilkinson, Charlotte, and J. v.
Granger, Wilmington.
Deliver Opinions In II Appeals.
The Supreme Court delivered opin-
ions in II appeals as follows:
Weston VS.. Roper Lumber Com
pany, Pasquotank, petition to rehear
dismissed; Insurance Company VS..
Cherokee Lumber Company, Cumber-
land, affirmed; Edwards VS.. Chemical
Company, Mecklenburg, new trial;
Lummus VS.. Insurance Company
Mecklenburg, affirmed; Houser We.
Fayssoux, CASTOR, affirmed; State VS..
Dalton, Lincoln, reversed; State vs..
Harmon, Polk, no error; Britain VS..
Southern Railway, Burke, reversed;
State vs. Bailey, Burke, no error;
Howell VS.. Hurley, Montgomery, new
trial; Forney VS.. Seaboard Air Line,
Cumberland, reversed; Dunlap VS..
Raleigh, Charlotte & Southern, Ran
dolph, no error; State VS.. Heavener,
Catawba, nd error; Mundy VS.. Town of
Newton, Catawba, error; Glavenerand
Hogsed VS.. Glouster Lumber Com
pany, Pennsylvania, affirmed in both
appeals; Hyder VS.. Southern Railway,
Henderson, reversed; Land Company
VS.. Floyd, Henderson. new trial.
Western lnsance Hospital Report.
The principal matter of interest be-
fore the board Of directors Of the