The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-16
Federal Government
will Spend $305, &c., ,464

Despite the failure of the last
Congress to pass important ap
preparation measures, the Feder
al Government is getting under
way a vast amount of building
and construction work. The De.
partment of Labor calls atten.
tion to the fact that by the end
of the fiscal year 1921 there will
be availible for Federal aid for
State road building more than
$266, 100000. Congress passed
the appropriation for $9,O5O, 900
for new hospitals and improve
ments to old ones needed by the
Public Health Service and this
building activity is being rushed
and will be under way by the end
of the year. Some of these pro-
jects will be under construction
by midsummer. More than $780,
600, 900 are involved in the main
tenance and construction work
set out in the rivers and harbors
appropriation bill passed by the
last Congress.
The harbors and rivers inn
lprovement work takes in almost
every section of the country,
much of it being planned for the
southeast, the Atlantic coast and
the Pacific States. More than
a million dollars will be spent
along the Mississippi River, ap-
proximately $3,500.00O on the
Ohio River, and about $500, 900
along the Missouri River. This
work, it is understood will go
ahead regardless Of current ma
terial and labor costs and should
prove an important factor in
making business good in the
hundreds of localities where
such work is. undertaken by the
Government. ~>~s'
The building program of the
Public Health Service to meet
the requirements of soldiers and
sailors availing of their privi-
leges under the War Risk ser
vice, calls for remodeling and ad-
ditions to hospital properties at
Camp Cody, N. Mex; Camp Han
cock, Ga. f; Camy Joseph E. john
ston, Fla; Camp Beauregard,
La; Camp Logan, Tex; Camp
Fremont, Calf; and the nitrate
plant at Perryville, Nd. For
these necessary chanes and addi-
tions $75O,OOO are available. The
project in Cook County,
Illinois, most of which is COM
pleted, carries an appropriation
of $3,OOO,OOO.
There is an appropriation of
81 10000 for the building of a
sanatorium at Dawson Springs,
KY, the survey is being made
and for the site and hospital
plant at Norfolk, Virginia, $780,
900 has been appropriated. An
appropriation of $4,000 was
made to take care of the hospi-
tal project in the District of Col
lmbia and $4,000 were voted
for improvements in the Marine
Hospital at Stapleton, Staten
Island, N. Y.
For most of these projects
plans now are being prepared
md it is safe to say work on all
, fthem will begin within the
rear.
The failure of the last Con-
yress to appropriate money to
AXE care of the building pro-
,ram in the Treasury Depart
nent has held up about $50 pro-
ects, for the most part post Of
ice buildings. Almost every
State in the Union is represent
d in this list of deferred pro-
ects which involves the expen-
liture, on presen tconstruction
,rices of more than $23, ,000,0 900. !
Many of these projects were
contemplated before the war and
money appropriated to cover the
obstruction costs of the then
Prevailing prices. Estimates at
hat time showed these buildings
would cost approximately six
cen and a half millions. The |
resent estimates are about six
more and before the
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