Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-07

meadows will offer more advanta-
geously situated factory and ware
house sites in the next twenty-five
years (While the area within a radius
of twelve miles is increasing its pop
ulation by 10000 per Year and the
value of its manufactured product by
$lS,000,000 per YEAR, than can any 9TH
er spot in the United States
And, second, that proper develop
ment can be carried out only under
the direction of State authority
which recognizes the common inter-
ests of all communities affected by
the developments.
Bay and River improvements
The government has undertaken 1--WE
projects for the Improvement of nav
igation in Newark Bay for the Pas
sale river, as stated in the annual re-
port of the chief of engineers of the
United states Army I9l1-l912.)
The first project, authorized by the
river and harbor act of 1872, provided
for the construction and maintenance
of a channel from Newark to Passaic
from six to seven and one-half feet
deep and from fifty to two hundred
feet wide. When this law was passed
there was naVigable passage seven
feet deep to Newark and three feet
deep from Newark to Passaic. The
first project is now complete. there
being a channel 100 feet wide and six
feet deep to Passalc. The cost of
this Improvement to June so, 1911.
was $222 1850. including maintenance
of $4,000 annually.
The second project, provided for in
the river and harbor act of 1880. was
for channel 200 feet wide and ten
feet deep up to Centre street bridge
in Newark. This project is now COM
plete, total of $512, 293,l9 having been
spent to June 30, 1911,
The third project, provided for in
the river and harbor act of 1902, was
for a channel from Staten Island
Sound to the Montclair and Green
wood Lake railroad bridge. a distance
of 10.S miles, the channel to be 200
feet wide with a depth of twelve feet
to the Nafn Linoleum Works and
ten feet from that point to the rail
road bridge. This project is now COM
plete. having cost 1901, 461.75 to June
80. 1911
The fourth project, provided for In
the river and harbor act of 1907. was
for a channel 800 feet wide and six
teen feet deep from deep water in
Newark Bay to the Marin Iinoleum
Works, 200 feet wide and sixteen feet
deep from the latter to the Montclair
and Greenwood Lake railroad bridge.
This project is now nearing compile
ton. $46f,544 having been spent to
June 80. 1911. of SS50.000 provided.
The fifth and last project, provided
for in the river and harbor act of
1912, il for a channel 300 feet wide
and 20 feet deep from deep water in
Newark bay to the Montclair and
Greenwood lake railroad bridge-S1,-
O65. 900 was authorized for the COM
pletion of this work. The contract
was awarded and the work has been
under way since October 1, 1913. The
spoil taken out of the channel is be-
ing pumped into adjacent meadows,
thus accomplishing a double benefit
in the deepening of the channel and
in the reclamation of land
All depths in these projects are
considered from mean low water,
there being n tidal range of Al feet
at the mouth of the river New har-
Dor lines have also been recently es-
tablished and they will probably not
be changed again in many years, il
at all
Why should Newark not supplement
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