Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-07
ARKANSAS RIVER WORK TO CONTINUE Allotment of $193,000 Con
 sidered Sufficient to Car ry Out Plans.
BENEFITS CITY FOLK
Deepening of Channel Means Regular Steamboat Traffic Between Pine Bluff, Memphis, St, Louis and Gin.
 cinnati, with Lower Rates.

 $193,OO will be allotted by the gov ernment engineers for work On the Arkansas river was receive2 here with expressions of pleasure and sat isfaction not only by river and steam boat men, but by business men gen eral!y.
 It is understood that this sum, adl- ed to the $3N,0n0 or $40,000 remaining on hand from previous appropriations, will be sufficient for the carrying out of the plans formulated for tfe i'm provem3nt of the river channel, and that the actual work will be started by the dredging and snagboats as soon as some of the money is re- ceived from Washington
 Pine Bluff business nlel- are more than ordinarily interested in the deep ening and maintenance Of the chanpel in the Arkansas liver, because of the great increase ill river tra.,fic here the past few months, and the many indl- cations of continued increase in the amount of freight transported in to and out of this city 5y the wa ter route.
 There is now pending before the interstate commerce commission at Washington a petition file9 by the Pine Bluff traffic bureau, in which the commission is asked to put into effect combination rail and water rates, on through bills of lading, into Pine Bluff from shipping centers m the North and East. The petition asks that the rate be based rii the rail rate into Memphis, where tle water rate is then taken up, the freight to be transferred from the railroads to the river boats at that city:
 No date for hearing n the petition has yet been fixed by the commission, and it is considered here that the re- sumption of actual work on the chan nel of the Arkansas river, to make the stream navigable throughout the year, will have an important and fav- orable bearing on the stand of the traffic bureau in the matter. s9zz
 $41s,35p fer State. s,{@;s.
 Congress red,Ned the original estE mates for rivers and harbors work from $53,000,0oO to s30,000,000 and left to the chief of engineers of the war department the apportionment of the sum.
 After months careful considera tion the following projects among others, and amounts to be expended upon them have been selected.
 Red river, above Fulton, Ark, $40,- 900.
 Ouachita river, Arkansas and Louis- jana locks and dams, Sill ,000.
 Open channel work to Camden, Ark, $25 1000.
 Bayous Bartholomew, Macon, DAT bonne and Corney and Boef and Ten sas rivers, La., $4,00O.
 Arkansas rivers Arkansas, $193,350.
 White river, Arkansas, $14,00o...
 Cache river. Arkansas, $3,000.
 Black and Current rivers, Arkansas and Missouri, $24,000.
 St. Francis and L'Anguille rivers and Blacklist bayou, Arkansas, SS,00O.
 Missouri river, Kansas City to mouth, $1,000,000.
 Osage river, Missouri, $500:
 Gasconade river Missouri, $15 5000.
 Mississippi river commission, $4,- 100000.
 Amount reserved for contingencies, $3,241,52s.
 Southwest pass, Mississippi river, $4G0,000.
 Southwest pass, channel, Mississip- pi river, $50,000.
 Payou Plaquemine, Louisiana, $20,- 900.
 Bayou Teche, Louisiana, $10,000.
 Waterway Franklin to Mermentau, Louisiana, S5,O00. j
 Waterway iMermentau river. to Sa- bine river, Louisiana and Texas, S5,- 0o0 @4
 Calcasieu river. Louisiana, S3,000.
 Bcgue Fala, Bayou Manchac and Amite, Tchefuncta and Tickfaw rivers, Louisiana, $5,000
 Bayou Vermillion and Mermentau river, Louisiana. including Bayou Plaquemine~ Brule, SS,000.
 Removal of water hyacinth in Mis- sisssippi, Louisiana and Texas, $20,- 00C
 Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana, S15,- 0O0.
 Atchafalaya river, Louisiana, $20,- 900.
 Bayou Grossetete, Louisiana, $3,000.
 Galveston channel, Texas, S100,000.
 Channel from Galveston harbor to Texas City, $50000.
 Channel to Port Bolivar, Texas, $40 ,000.
 Houston ship channel, Texas, $200,- 900.
 West Galveston bay and mouths of adjacent streams, Texas, $20,o00.
 Inland waterway ,on coast of Texas, West Galveston bay, Brazos river sec- ton, $15,000.
 Brazos river, Matagorda bay sec ton, Texas, 0,O00,
 Aransas pass-Pass Cavallo section, Texas, $30000.
 Guadalupe river section, Texas. S15,000. < s
 Mouth of Brazos river, Texas, ESQ.,