The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-12-07
$53,OOO,0 1000 ESTIMATED
FOR II. S. WATERWAYS
OF That Amount $4,000 Goes TO Burling.
ton Harbor and $1,000 for Earrows
of Lake Champlain.

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Washington, D, G.. Dec. 7.--More thai
$5S 100000 is estimated for improvement
and maintenance OF the nations water
ways and harbors during the fiscal yea
of 1915, which begins July !. 1915.
The great waterways require the larg
er part of the money. The total OF TN
works Is made up of a comparativel,
small number of large items and con-
paratively large number of small items
The Mississippi river estimate is sl05o0,
900; the Ohio, s9,ss4000; the Hudson
$3,6 900; the Tennessee, more than 3d.
000,000; the Columbia and the Missouri
900.
Estimates of appropriations for the
larger waterways are;
Mississippi river: Southwest pass
100000; South pass, $4,000; passes to
mouth of Ohio Including expenses o!
Mississippi river commssionl, S6,000,000;
mouth of Ohio to Minneapolis, $3,7S5,-
600; between Brainerd and Grand Rapids,
Mich, s6,000 Mississippi and Leech riv-
ers, MIMI, 100000.
Ohio river: Below Pttsburg, 1854 900.
Hudson river: $3,670,000.
Missouri river: Kansas City to mouth,
six-foot channel, S2,200,000; Kansas City
to Sioux City, $l50,000; Sioux City to
Fort Benton, $l5O,000.
Tennessee river: Above Chattanooga,
c. Ia@,
ton, $4,000; below Riverton. $2s7000
Cumberland river; Below Nashville,
81 100000.
Delaware river: Philadelphia to sea,
81 100000; above Trenton, $47,500
ST. Mary's river:' Construction OF
fourth lock, $l,0l0,000.
Columbia river: Mouth, $l,750,000; Co
lumbia and lower Willamette 100000;
at Cascades, $4,000; at ThreeMile Rap
ids, $4,000; upper Columbia and Snake
rivers, $65,000.
Monogahela river: Reconstruction of
lock and dam No. 8. $2ll 200.
Allegheny river: $4,000.
Inland waterway, Rehoboth bay to
Delaware bay, $4,000.
Potomac river: At Washington, $780,
900.
Estimates of harbors and smaller wa
terways;
Maine: Portland, $l050oo; St. Croix
river, $4,000.
Vermont: Burlington $1,000; Narrows
of Lake Champlain, $1,000.
Massachusetts,: Boston, 35-foot chan
mel, 100000; Fall River harbor, $4,000
New Bedford and Fairhaven, $4,000;
$4,000; Merrimac river.
$4,000; Woods Hole channel. $4,000;
Point Judith harbor refuge, $4,000.
Rhode Island: Providence river and
harbor, 1927 800.
Connecticut: New Haven, $4,000; Con |
necticut river below Hartford, $4,000; |
ITousatonic river, $4,000; Thames river,
Sl4,500.
New York: Buffalo, $ls7,375; Char
otte, $4,000 Gowanus bay channel, !
Sl50,000 Great Sodus bay harbor, So
100; New York Hudson river channel,
$3.50, 900; 0swego, Sl00,000; Port Chester,
$50, 900; Mattituck, $4,000; Huntington.
5000; Port Jefferson, $4,000; Mamaro-
leck, Sl4.S00; Roundout and Peekskill, /
5000; Sheepshead bay, $1,000; larry
own, $4,000; Bronx river S200,00O;
Browns creek, $4,000; East Chester creek.
10000; Harlem river, Sl50.000; Newton
reek, $4,000; Arthur Kill. S505,000
Porto Rico: San Juan, $4,000.
New Jersey: Absecon inlet, S4500;
leyport harbor, Raritan and Elizabeth
ivers, S25,500; Raritan bay. 100000;
copper river, $4,000; Maurice river, sl0,-
90; Passaic river, Sl55.000; Raccoon
reek, $4,000; Salem river, $4,000;
shrewsbury river, $4,000; Tuckerton
reek, 5000.
Pennsylvania; Erie, $4,000: Pittsburg,
7 500.
Delaware: Pier near Lewes, $1,000;
100000; Appoquinimink, !
lurderkill and Nispillion rivers, $4,000; ,
'roadkill river, $1,000; st. Jones river,
8 5000.
Maryland: Harbors at Rockall, Queens
own. Claiborne and Cambridge. and d
hester, Choptank. Warwick. Pocomoke.
a Trappe, Wieomico and Manokin riv-
rs, $4,000; Elk aud Little Elk rivers.
5 1000
District of Columbia; Blacostia river,
5000