The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-02-25
Rivers AND HARBORS
BILL IS AGREED ON
THE BILL CARRIES MANY ITEMS
FOR BOTH TEXAS AND LOUIS
lana FOR IMPROVEMENTS,
A TOTAL or $4O,OOO,OOO
The Committee to Report to the House
a Total of $40,0OOOO0 to Carry on
Projects in Different Parts
of the Country, Etc

Washington.-De Of the annual
Ifvers and harbors appropriation Dill
was completed in committee Monday
The principal item in the bill is 49,
$4,000 for the Mississippi river. This
includes 100000 for dredging the
Southwest pass in Louisiana. FIVE
million dollars is provided for improV-
ing the Mississippi from the head OF
The passes to the mouth Of the ono
river, including Mississippi river com
mission expenses to secure a perma-
aent channel depth of nine feet.
Appropriations carried in the bill IN
Clude:
Observation-Disclosures pass, $780,
BOO; Bayou Plaquemine, including
Grand river and Pigeon bayou, S20,-
OOO: Bayou Teche, $4,000; inland
waterway from Franklin to Mermen'
tau, $4,000, and from Mermentau
river to Sabine river, $4,000; Bayous
Vermilion and Plaquemine Brule and
Mermentau river, $4,000; Atchafalaya
river, $4,000; Red river (Arkansas
and Louisiana) below Fulton, Ark,
5000: Bayous Bartholomew, Macon
dArbonne and Corney and Boeuf and
Tansas rivers, $4,000.
Texas-Galveston channel, construc'
ton of seawall extension, S2OO,J0O'
conditioned upon local donation OF
necessary lands and payment OF cost
of construction of at least $500 feet
of similar seawall extending, all the
work to be done under the war de-
partment's direction and subject to
other conditions; Galveston channel,
100000; Galveston harbor to Texas
City, $1S5,000; channel to Port Boil
var. $4,000; Port Arkansas, 100000;
Sabine Pass and Port Arthur canal,
S590,OOO Houston ship channel, $751;
900: Trinity river, Oyster creek, ETC.,
$4,000; inland waterway on coast OF
Texas, $9S,50O, including 100000 each
for Brazos river-Matagorda bay and
Arkansas Pass-Pass Cavallo sections;
Brazos river, $990,000, including $780,
900 for repairs to jetties and mouth
and 100000 for locks and dams from
Old Washington to Waco; channel
from Arkansas pass to Corpus Christi,
$4,000; Sabine-Neches canal from
mouth of Neches to Port Arthur ship
canal, $4,000; Trinity river open
channel work, $4,000, and construc-
ton of locks and dams, S250O00, con-
ditioned upon local contribution OF
100000; Red river, between Washita
river and Fulton, Ark, $4,000.
Arkansas-Ouachita river (Arkan-
sas and Louisiana), lock and dam con.
struction, $474,O0O, and open channel
work UP to Camden, $4,000; Arkansas
river (Arkansas and Oklahoma), in
GLIDING Pine Bluff works and dredg.
ing plant operation, $209,7OO; White
river, $3O,5OO.
/ For removing water hyacinths OBJ
structing navigation, $4,000 in Flor
| ida and $4,000 altogether for Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tex
as.
The bill also carries an appropria'
ton of $25O,OOO for surveys and ex'
aminations to include:
Observation-Disclosures river, Bay
GUS Kelso, Que de Tortue, Descannes
and NezI%lue, Des Glaizes.
Texas-Channel from Harbor island
and Port Arkansas to Rockport, with
twelve-foot depth. Houston ship chan
mel, contemplating increased width
and depth by using two dredGes. But
falo bayou between ship channel turn
ing Lasin and mouth of White Oak
bayou. San Bernard river and Turtle
Cove channel, Port Arkansas.
Arkansas-St. Francis river from
Sunk lands" at st. Francis to marked
tree, contemplating local cooperation
in reclamation work. White river
above Batesville, to provide year
round navigation by additional loci