The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-11-26
Big SUM NEEDED
FOR WATERWAYS
Chief of Army Engineers Rec
ommends Rivers, Harbors
Bill of $57, ,206,715.
TO BE OFFERED CONGRESS

TO BE OFFERED CONGRESS
Washington Nov 26.--Harbor ant
waterways improvement and mainte
nance will require appropriations of$7S,
| 207, 665 for the fiscal year Of 1921. ac.
cording to- estimates OF Maj. Gen Lans-
ing M. Beach, chief of army engineers
in his annual report made public today
He recommended a rivers and harbors
bin total of $57.20s,7i5, supplemented
by sundry civil items aggregating $40,
9S2, $50 for continuing contracts anc
other items In other money bills.
The recommendations will be incor-
porated in the annual estimates sub
mitted to congress at its session, Dec. 6
The Mississippi river from its mouth
to Minneapolis, will require SIC. 100. 900,
including provision for the mississippi
river commission, the report said
Muscle Shoals nitrate plant, O.00o. 900,
New York harbor and It's adjacent
waters wa eGs $500 600, the Ohio river S.
river will require sa,s57.oOO. the Della
ware and Chesapeake inland water
5000.
Recommendations for appropriations
for southern districts follow:
Montgomery. Ala, district: Apalachi-
cola oay. $1,000; Apalachicola river.
$1,000; upper Chipola river. $4,000;
Flint river. $S5.ooo;. Chattahoochee
RIVER RIVER TO s. Andrsws bay Say sSS
Andrews bay, $ss,36o; Choctawatchee
river, $10,S00; Holmes river. q. 900:
Blackwater river, S15,460; Pensacola,
s67,5ao; Alabama river, $4,000; Coosa
river, $4,000. Z. srsga1,
IN Mobile district, Mobile hareor. $685.
900; channel. Mobile bay Mississippi
sound. $4,000; Black Warrior, Warrior
and Tombigbee rivers, 10000; Pasca-
goula, $4,000; Gulfport and Ship
Island Pass, $1s7,000; Biloxi, SIC. 900:
Wolf and Jordan rivers, 10000; East
Pearl river, $4,000.
New Orleans district: Southwest
Pass, Mississippi river, S3,140,O00; Lak,.
Pontchartrain, 5000; Chefuncte river
and az a. Bosne Falia. ss,5oo; Amite river.
aByou Tech. 100000; FranK'in to
Teche, s1O7,5Oo; Atchafalaya river.
Morgan City to Gulf, 5000: Inter-
coastal waterways. Mississippi river to
aByou Teche. $780, 1000; Franklin to
Mermentau. $466.7o0; Mermentau river
million. $4,000; Calcasieu river and
pass, $4,000.
Galveston district: Galveston har.
tor. 1855, 900; Galveston channel, $780,
900; channel, Galveston to Texas City.
$155,O0O; to Port Bolivar. $50, 900; Houe-
ton ship canal, $1,5S0,o00: Double bayou.
$1,000; Anahuac channel, $500; Clear
creek $4,000; Oyster creek, s2a.soo;
West Galveston bay and Brayos canal,
$25 900; channel. Brazos river and
Matagorda bay. sA6 ,D0Q;s channel. Pass
Cavallo and Port Lavaca, $4,000; cham
mel, Pass Cavallo to Afansas pass, ST.
200; Aransas Pass to. Corpus Christi
slssr Freeport Pc ia sas zoo; Brssos
900; Port Arkansas. $500. 900; harbor at
Sabine Pass and Port Arthur canal.
s175.OO0; Sabine Neches canal. $135..
900; Johnson's bayou. $4,000. S'
vicksburg district: Redtriyer below
Fulton. Ark, ssS 900; ,Ouachita and
$4,000; Boeuf river, $4,000; Sabine river.
$1,000; Bayous D'Arbonne and Cornoy,
S562 900; Yazoo river, $4,000; Tchula
lake, $2,500: Tailqhatchie and Cold
water rivers. $10.OOo: Big Sunflower
rivet.. $25.300; Steele and Washington
hayous and Lake Washington. ss.450.
Little Rock district: Arkansas river.
river. river ssi,doo; Current river. 'JS Ss.7so; St.
Francis river, $4,000.
Nashville district: Cumberland river
below Nashville, 100000; above Nash.
vile, $S0S,Oo0; Tennessee river above
Chattanooga. $l10.o000; Hale's Bar to
Browns island. sl,842,000; Florence to
900.
Florence. Ala, district: Nitrate
plants. Muscle Shoals. Golfers No.
and s. $30n. 900: dam and lock construc-
tion, $4,700.O00: power plants. .urDirts
and electrical apparatus.
Norfolk. district: Norfolk narn,r.
tenance. $50.0o0:. Appomattox riv, ar.
S50,0O0: Pagan river, SIS 900: knnse.
.jantee river, $4,000 Congaree river.
rs, 900; inland e., waterway. Norso'S to
wilmington. N. c.. district: Manto
bay Si60O; Pimlico and ,Tasr -ivers
So, 800; Neuse river, $l5.5oo; Beaufort.
s6, 600; waterway. Core sound to Beau
tort, S2,50o; beaufort inlet. 50. 100;
Cape Fear at and below Wilmington,
s695,OO0; Northeast river. $4,000; Black
Charleston district: waccamaw river.
10000; Great Peedee river. 5000;
aSntee river, $4,000; Congaree river,
10000; waterway. Charleston and
Winyah bay, $500; Charleston har-
Dor. $1,000, 900; Wappo cut. $4,000;
boT. TaVsnS" siiss, 900; % savannah ' river below %
Augusta, $s6,5Oo; above Augusta.
81, lgs. 500: waterway. Beaufort, 8. c.,
10 st, Johns river Florida, $S5,500:
Sapelo $4,000; Darien, 1000: satiIla
river. S2,5O0 St Mary's river Georgia
and Florida. $4,000: Altamaha river
$4,000 Oconee river, $4,000 Ocmul-
gee river. $4,000; Brunswick, s2oo,O00.
Jacksonville district: st, Johns river.
to ocean, 100000; jack
sonville to Palatka. $40, 900: Palatka
10 Lake Henry, S65.O0o; Oklawaha
liver. 100000; indian river, $4,000;
Miami. $4,000: Key West. s113,500:
Fiiesmee river. $1,000; Caloosahatchee
liver. $4,000; Sarasota bay. $4,000; An
,lote river, $500; Tampa bay, 27-foot