The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
NEED S78,2O7,6 ,665 FOR HARbQRS AND WATERWAYS IN 1921.
Recommendations for Appro- priations for South Include Big Sums for Montgom-
 cry, Mobile, Florence
By Associsted Pross

Washington, November 2e. e.--Harbor and waterway improvement and maintenance will require appropriations of s7S, ,2T ,e5 for the fiscal year of 1921. according to es- inmates of Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of army engineers, in his annual report made public today. He recom- mended rivers and harbors bill total of $57, ,206, 715, supplemented by sundry civil items aggregatins $i0, $50 for continu- ing contracts and other items in other money bills.
 The recommendations will be incorpo- rated in the annual estimates submit ted to Congress at it's session Decem> Der G.
 The Mississippi river from it's mouth to Minneapolis will require si6,l9o,000, in cluding provision for the Mississippi river commission, the report said. Muscle Shoals nitrate plant, sl0,ooo, 0oo: New York harbor and it's adjacent waters, $, 800, ,0o0; the Ohio river, s, ,5s5, DO; Philadelphia and the Delaware river will require $3,S57. 600, the Delaware and Chesapeake Island waterway, S2,5q0 GOO; the Missouri river, s, l16 coo
 SOUTHERN DISTRICTS
 Recommendation for appropriations for southern districts include:
 Montgomery District-Apalachicol bay, Rk~> chipola river. 5000; Flint river, $35, 900; Chattahoochee river, y1Oo0O0; channel of Apalachicola river to St. Andrews bay, SIS, GOO; St Andrews bay, $S6,360: Chocta- hawatchee river, Nc,S00; Holmes river, s4.000; Black Warrior. $l5,460: Pensacola, s67, ,5S0; Alabama river, $70,0O0; Coosa river. $O000.
 Mobile District-Mobiie harbor, Azs, GOO: channel of Mobile bay and Mississippi rk Warpinp Warrior and Tombigbee rivers. 5000; Pascagoula, $1S7, 900; Gulfport and Ship Island pass, $1S7, 900; Biloxi. $10,000; Wolf and Jordan rivers, $l0000; East Pearl river. $1o.oco.
 New Orleans District Southwest pass, Mississippi river, s, 10000; Lake Pont- chartrain, $s.20c; Crefuncte river and Bogue Fala, $3.50o: Amite river, $S,00o; Bayou Plaquemine, $2o00o Bayou Gros- setete, s, 600; Bayou Teche, $1O7, 800; Atch- afalaya river, Morgan City to gulf. $60, 900; infercoastal waterways, Mississippi river to Bayou Teche. s1o0 600; Franklin to Mer- mentau $4567O0 Mernentau river to Sa- bine river, Ss12, 900; Bayou vermilion, $l0.- 00o; Calcasieu river and pass, $15,oO.
 yicksburg District Red river below Fulton, Ark. $s9000; Ouachita and Black rivers, $45s. 900 Tensas river, 5000; Boeuf river, 5000; Saline river, $3,0OO: Bayous D'Arbonne and Cornoy. $562 2000; Yazoo river, $i6 900; Tchula lake, $2,5oo; Taila- hatchie and Coldwater rivers. $10O0Q; Big Sunf1ower river. $5.s00; Steele and Wash- ington bayous and Lake Washington E. .450
 Nashville District Cumberland river below Nashville, $aoO. 900: above Nashville, $o6 600: Tennessee river below Chatta- nooga, s11c.Ooo: Hales bar to Browns island. a.s4z, 900; Florence to Colbert, $6O.- 0o0; below Riverton, $14,0o0
 Florence, Ala, District-Nitrate plants Muscle Shoals, coffers Nos. and 5. $3p, coo: dam and lock construction. N,6Q0,0oo; power plant, turbines, generators and electrical apparatus, s5,0o0,O0c.