New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-12-11
MILLIONS WILL BE ASKED
FOR U. s. WATERWAYS.

Waterways improvements III
the State of Louisiana will total
S., 535, 800 during the year 1921,
if recommendation by Major Gen
eral Lansing II. Beach, chief of
1 army engineers, are approved by
congress.
Every citizen in the parish of
st. Mary is vitality interested in
the development Of the state 3
waterways and should do all in
their power to have the recon-
mendatiOn approved. Every citl-
zen who has friend in congress
should Immediately get in touch
with him and have him do all that
he can to have this worthy recon-
mendation passed, which if ap-
proved means that the sum Of
100000 will be used for re-dredg-
ing the Atchafalaya river channel
from Morgan CITY to the Gulf
According to the New Orleans
Item. the three important projects
in the New Orleans district are
the south and southwest passes,
the intercoastal canal and the
further development Of the At
chafalaya river. More than
score of smaller projects are in
Icluded.
That part Of the waterway from
Vermilion river to Schooner ba-
you will call for the expenditure
Of $1,000 a month at least on
dredging. The section from IMer-
mentau river to the Sabine will
require the expenditure of $6l2,-
600 of which $168,000 will be
needed to complete a channel by
40 feet in the Mermentau-C alca-
sieu section and $444,0 for the
purchase Of the necessary plant !
on the Calcasieu-Sabine section. /
The completion Of the north
west pass work on the Mississippi
is the feature Of the proposed !
work. For this $3,140,000 should
be spent, according to the major
general s recommendation. Last
year only 100000 was spent by
the government on southwest
pass. The new recommendation,
if followed out, would give 3d.
foot channel.
AS pointed out by Colonel r.
y. Dent, district engineer at New
Orleans, the fact that these rec
concentrations have been made
does not mean that the apprOpri-
alton will be voted The harbor
9Md waterways project are the
pork barre: about which 50
much talk has been made.
AS an indication Of the value
of rivers and harborS WORK, it
may be stated that and a half per
cent of the total commerce cf New
Orleans last year would eqnal
the entire rivers and harbors ap-
preparation. which was only S12,-
100000.
:" 1t is pointed out that unless
interests get behind the
recommendations, the appropria-
tions will be slashed right and I
left, and only a 1.-THE of the work |
considered necessary by the army l
work on which the c
foreign and domestic commerce /
80 largely depends. will be done. l
Other appropriations recon- c
nended for Louisiana are as fol- n
ows: /
Bayou Teche, $107 900; to give t
L an S-foot channel and widen it b
% 80 feet from the mouth to New ?
IBERIA. c
Intercoastal waterways, Miss p
ssippi river to Bayou Teche, b
sf07 500 to continue dredging be- \
ween Bayou Black and Bayou
rerrebonne near Houma; Frank
in to Mermentau, $456. 700, en-
arging the Hanson channel from
he Teche to Cote Blanche bay,
nd building lock and draw
ridges; Mermentau. river to Sa-
inc river. $612.000 to complete
hannel ) feet deep bv 40 feet
vide from the Mermentau to the
'alcasieu, and to purchase a
Lredge for charging the canal
rom the Calcasieu to the Sabine.
bayou Vermilion. 10000: Ca
asieu river and pass, $4,000;
AXE Ponchartrain. $4,000; Tche-
meta river. and Boeue Falia;
mite river. $4,000; Bayou Pla-
uemine $4,000; Bayou Grosscta,
600 for continuing work under
raw and doing routine work.
The Hanson canal project. said
olcnel Dent cannot We hecua
ntil title to the canal is secured