The Washington times., 1914-02-12
RIVERS AND HARBORS
BILL, $43,227.5O4
Purchase of the Chesapeake &
Delaware Canal For ST.
100000 Is Asked.

The House Rivers and Harbors
.omui,tee today made public its an
nal appropriation bill, aggregatiDg
.43.227,j04. The principal new pro-
cts provided for are Improvement of
.re Mississippi river, by construction
levees from Cape Girardeau, Mo-,
, Rock Island, Ill, at a cost of
S. 900. .00C; authorization of improve
.ents in Greater New York harhors
ltinately to cost S1@,4O0,0e0; imme-
late purchase of the Chesapeake and
delaware Canal, for SI,S00,000, and
It's ultimate Improvement to the eX-
tent of SS,000, ,0OG; a channel from
Norfolk. Va. TO Newport News. TO
lost $I,1I4,O0O, and improvement of
lie Sacramento and San Joaquin riv-
ers California, TO cost ultimately
S5,S6l,00o.
The bill this year is S5,0OO,ooo small
er than last year.
Many OF the projects are made cen
Gitional upon local financial co-opera-
ton. Among the principal Rppropri-
atoms made are:
Maine-PcrtIand harhor. Slo5,O9O;
IT. Croix river, $4,000.
assachusettS-Beverly haroor' $olrI
Sa!em harbor, $3.50; Boston harbor
tthirty-five-foot channel, S00@0; Pol
lock Rip, channel. S125,O0o; New Bed
lord and Fairhaven harborS, $6I,0VO' ran
River harbor, 81, 900.
Connecticut-New Haven harbor, So
90; Greenwich haTbor, 5000; New Lon
don harbor, $4,000.
New York-Port Chester harbor. SB,-
20: Mattituck harbOr, 900; Hunting
ION harbor, 5000, Hampstead harbor,
5000; Saugerties hRrbor, $3.50; Rond-
cut harbor, 5000; Tarrytown harbor.
basin, 81, 500; New York harboF: Upper
bag, S25O, 200: Bay Ridge and Red Hook
.hannels, $500, 200; Hudson river chan
mel SIS, 90; East river and He'll Gate,
500, 900; Hudson river. at Ossining. $S5.-
100: Buffalo harbor, A57, ,09J; Charlotte,
$4,000: Oswego. $4,000: Plattsbury,
s. 900: East Chester creek, 81, ,0C0; West
chester creek. $500; Harlem river.
S1e0, 600: Newton creek, $4,000; Hudson
New Jersey-staten Island sound. and
channel, $50e,000; RaTitan. bay, $1,000;
Shoal harbor. S55, 900: Passaic river and
Newark bay Ctwenty-fOOt channeDs
$50, 900: Woodbridge creek. 5000: KEEP
port harbOr, $500; Shrewsbury river,
SllO.OJ0: Matawan creek. -S72 90: RaFitan
coon creek, S. 900; AlOway creek, 5000:
Salem river, $4,000; Maurice river,
81. .UO0. --
nsylvania-Pittsburgh harbor. 5000: {:
SIonOngahela river, Sl7s.OO0: Chester
river. s., coo: Delaware river, 100000.
Observation-Disclosures ha-bOr. $4,000;
Inland waterway from Rehoboth bay
10 Delaware bay. $4,000: Chesapeake and
Delaware canal. s.. .30l00.
Maryland-Curtis Bay channel. Balti-
more harbor. $6l.s0O: Herring bay, S1l,-
800: harbors at Rock Hail, Queenstown
md adjacent waterways, $3O,500; Tired
Avon river, Sl9.6O0.
District of Columbia-POtomac river,
so, 900: AnacOstia river, $4,000.
Tirginia-NOTfoLk haTbor and channel
. Newport News. ultimate cost 81. IA, =
'c1 initial appropriation. $4,000; James
River. $4,000: Hampton Creek, $1,000:
Tangier Channel. $4,000; Occoquan
-reek. $21-50O; Inland Waterway from
Norfolk to Beaufort Inlet, North Caro-
Ina, $50 OOj: waterway from Norfolk,
Va. 20 North Carolina sound, 5000.
North CarOlina-Cape Lookout harbor,
$500. Goo; Beaufort harbor and inlet, SIS,