Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-23
CANAL REPORT
IN DECEMBER.
Will be Ready for Considera-
ton of Congress, Accord
ing to Col. Newcomer.
LETTER Is RECEIVED
By Hoffman from DonnelIy
Telling of Great Progress
Made for New Waterway

The survey along the proposed
route for the Intra-Coastal Ship
Canal from Morgan on Cheesequake
Creek to }ordentown, on the Della
ware, is progressing to such degree
that a report will be ready for the
consideration of congress in Decem-
ber, according to Col. II. A. New
conner, u :. S. Army engineer in charge
of government work of this char
acter in this district
Assemblyman Harold G.. Hoffman,
sponsor of Assembly Bill $40 which
made it possible for the state to pro-
duce the necessary funds for the ac-
quisition of the right of way along
the line of the canal by using the
moneys turned over to the state from
the Morris canal abandonment, is in
receipt of letter from Mayor DON
nelly, of Trenton, which contains
considerable encouraging informa-
ton.
A conference was held in New
York this week with Col. Newcomer
by several of those vitally Interested
in seeing the proposed canal pro-
ject become a reality and the report
of Col. Newcomer was enthusiastic
cally received.
Assurances are given by Mayor
Donnelly in his letter to Assembly
man Hoffman that the cost of the
actual construction work ON the
canal will be within the original es-
innate made nine years ago when
this matter was up for serious con-
sideration. The cost of the work, it
is estimated will be between thirty
and forty million dollars. The cost
nine years ago was considered too
high to permit of the work being
done but since the cost of such work
also has mounted and the informa-
tion that the cost will be no greater
now than it would have been at that
time is received with satisfaction by
those who have long been fighting
for this canal.
During the past few years the
engineering methods and machines
used in canal work by the govern
= ment have been perfected to such a
degree that the former cost has been
cut down to large extent and the
time consumed has been lessened
with the result that the work can
now be done not only cheaper but
much quicker than before.
There will be public meeting in
New Brunswick some time during
July at which invitations will be ex-
tended to industrial and shipping
concerns in New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Mary
land to have, representatives present
to hear the canal proposition ex-
planned and the many good points
shown them. On the day following
this conference tour of the Della
ware g. Raritan canal will be made
by those interested in the new canal
project.
The report of Col. Newcomer will
be ready to be sent to General
Beach, chief of the U. S. War De-
partment Engineers, by the latter
part of this summer and he in turn
will have the canal matter in readi-
ness for congress to act upon.
At the time of the passage of
Assemblyman Hoffman's ship canal
bill Governor Silzer announced his
intention of calling a meeting at
some time during the summer of all
those who own property along the
site of the proposed canal. The list
of names of these property owners
has been procured and turned over
to the governor and a meeting with
the states chief executive is likely in
the near future.