Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-08
THE RIVERS and
HARB0RS ESTIMATES
Officers in Charge Ask Over
$50, 100000 for improvements
and Observation-Disclosures Is
$105,000 for Portland Harbor
and $4,000 for the st. Croix
River.

Washington, Dec. More than $50, 600 :
900 lis estimated for improvements and
maintenance of the nations waterways
and harbors during the fiscal yesr of 1915,
which begins July l, 1915.
The great waterways require the larger
part of the money. The total of the
works Is made up OF a comparatively
small number Of large items and a COM
paratiyely large number of small items.
The Mississippi river estimate Is $f0,-
500,eOo the Ohio. s9SS4.00O; the Hudson,
S3,670.0 600; the Tennessee, more than 5000,
0oo the Columbia and the Missouri. 81, :
5oe.eeo each; and the Delaware, $500. 0Oo
Estimates of appropriations for the
larger waterways are:
Mississippi River: Southwest Pass,
100000; South Pass. $4,000 passes to
mouth of orio dncludinE expenses of
Mississippi River commission), 5000, 900;
mouth OF Ohio to Minneapolis, 50, 1856, 900;
between Brainard and Grand Rapids,
MIMI; 5000; Mississippi and Leeeh Riv-
ers, Mimi. $4,000.
Hudson River: s3,67o,0oo.
Missouri River: Kansas City to mouth,
6-foot channel, 81, 200 00o; Kansas City to
Sioux City. $4,000 Sioux City to Fort
Benton, sl5o.O00s
Tennessee River: Above Chattanooga.
81, 7s2, 900; between Florence and Riverton.
$4,000; below Riverton, 1928. 900.
Cumberland River: Below Nashville,
81, 00o, 900.
Delaware River: Philadelphia to sea,
81. SOC, 900; above Trenton, $47,50o.
ST. Mary's River: Construction OF fourth
lock, 100000.
Columbia River: Mouth, s1,750,0o0; Col
umbia and Lower Willamette, $500, 900; at
Cascades. $4,000; at Three-mile Rapids,
$4,000; Upper Columbia and Snake
Rivers. $4,000.
Monogahela River: Reconstruction of
Lock and Dam No 6, $211, 200.
Allegheny River: ;i9,ooo.
Inland waterway. Rehoboth Bay to
Delaware Bay. $4,000.
Potomac River: At Washington, $4,000.
Estimates of harbors and smaller wat
erways:
Maine: Portland. 31o5.oOo; St. Croix
River, $4,000.
Vermont: Burlington, 5000; Narrows of
Lake Champlain, 5000.
Massachusetts: Boston. 35-ft. channel,
SOC. 900; Fall River aarbor. $4,000; New
Bedford and Fairhaven. $4,000; New
buryport, $4,000; Merrimac River. 5000;
Woods Hole Channel, SO, 900; Point Ju-
dith harbor refuge, $4,000.
Rhode Island: Providence river and
harbor, 1927, 800.
Connecticut: New Haven, 10000; Con-
necticut River. below Hartford, $50, 600;
Housatonic River, $1,000; Thames river,
$14, 500 49,. -sz
| New York; Buffalo, sls7,s75; Charlotte,
$4,000; Gowanus Bay a1ehannel. $3.50 600,
Great Sodus Bay harbor, 5000: New York
Hudson River channel. $4,000; oswego,
100000; Port Chester, $4,000. Mattituck,
$4,000; Huntington, 5000; Port Jefferson,
&c., 600: Mamareneck, s14, 500: Rondout and
Peekskill, 5000; Sheepshead Bay, $1,000;
Tarrytown, 5000: Bronx River, 5000. 900:
Browns Creek, 5000: East Chester Creek,
$4,000; Harlem River. $4,000; Newton
Creek, $4,000; Arthur XIII. $4,000
Porto Rico: San Juan, $4,000.
New Jersey: Absecon Inlet $4,000;
Keyport harbor, Raritan and Elizabeth
rivers, SIS, 500; Raritan Bay, $4,000 Coop
er River, 5000; Maurice river, $4,000; Pas
sale River, $l550Oo: Raccoon Creek. $4,000;
Salem River, 5000; Shrewsbury River,
| $40, 0G9 ;<Tuckertown Creek, $1,000.
Pennsylvania: Erie, $4,000; Pittsburgh,
$500.
| Delaware: Pier near Lewes, 5000; Will
mington, 500, 600; Appoquinimink, Murder
kill and Mispillion Rivers. $4,000; Broad
kill River. $4,000; st. Jones River, $4,000.
Maryland: Harbors at Rockall, Queens
! town, Claiborne and Cambridge and
Chester, Choptank, Warwick, Pocomoke,
La Trappe, Wicomico and Manokin riv-
ers, So, 500; Elk and Little Elk Rivers,
5000
District of Columbia: Inacostia River,
SIS, 600.