The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-15
DETAILS OF RIVERS
 AND HARBORS BILL
 ARE MADE PUBLIC
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and which may be allotted to levees may be expended for levees anywhere between head of passes and Rock Island, H., So as to promote commerce at all stages of the river.
 For the improvement of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the mouth of the Missouri $350,O00 is provided, while 1 s1, 900 is appropriated for the river from the mouth of the Missouri to Min neapolis with smaller sums for improve ments at other points.
 Other large items included in the meas ure are $545,000 for Savannah harbor $705, 900 for the Cumberland river below Nashville, and $944,000 for the Tennessee river in Tennessee, Alabama and Ken lucky. Provision also is made for com pleting the 2S-foot channel from Charles. ton to the sea and $155,000 is set aside for improving Mobile harbor. Among the projects in the south provided for in the bill are:
 GEORGIA
 Chattahoochee river Georgia and Ala bama) below Columbus, Ga, $120,OOO; Coosa river Georgia and Alabama) $9S,- GOO, including between Rome, Ga., and No. dam, Alabama, $6S,0 GOO, and complet ing dams No. and 5, Alabama, $SO0OO-
 ALABAMA
 Alabama: Mobile harbor and bar, $155.- o00 Alabama river, including Alabama and Coosa rivers between Montgomery and Wetumpka, $100,000; Tombigbee river (Alabama and Mississippi, s35.O00 of which $25,000 is from it's mouth to De- Imopolis, and the balance from there to Walkers bridge, and channel connecting Mobile bay and Mississippi sound, 5000.
 TEXAS
 Texas: Galveston channel, continuing , f.Or cf ,Aft af 090, conditioned upon local donation of necessary lands and payment of cost of construction of at least 3300 feet of simi- lar sea wall extension, all the work to be done under the war departments di- rection, and subject to other conditions; Galveston channel, $100, 600; Galveston har- bor to Texas City, $1S5,0OO; channel to 000; Sabine Pass and Port Arthur canal, $690,0O0; Houston ship channel, $2o0, 900; Trinity river, Oyster creek, etc. $30,000; inland waterway on coast Of Texas $9S,- 500, including $30,000 each for Brazos river, S39O000, including $175,000 for repairs to jetties and mouth, and $200,000 for locks and dams from Old Washington to Waco; channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, $15,000; Sabine-Neches canal, from mouth of Neches to Port Arthur ship canal. S2O,0Oo; Trinity river open channel work. S50,000; and construction of locks and dams, $2500O0: conditioned upon local contribution of $5OO0e Red river, between Washita river and Fulton Ark, $25,o00,
 TENNESSEE
 Tennessee Tennessee river CTennes- see. Alabama and Kentucky, $944,OO0, which includes eco for open channel work above Chattanooga, $120,OO0 for open channel work, between Chattanooga and Tliverton, Ala and s50O,000 for lock and dam construction at Crow Creek Island and below Riverton, $24,00o This lock and dam construction is conditioned upon le cal assumption of all claims for flow age damage, and te Secretary of War will ultima tely determine the type of dams to be constructed. and one high dam CT tive low dams may be built ac- cording as local interests contribute the cost of all flowage damage claims
 Tor removing water hyacnths obstruct- ing navigation, $0,00o in Florida, and $20,- GOO altogether for Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.