The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
Wilmington District Army Engineers
To Finish Several Projects In 1910

90 basin from 1000 feet to 4,500
feet. and for a depth of 80 feet in
the channel from the OTTER edge OF
the ocean bar channel and Whining
ton and in the turning basin at an
estimated cost of $780, 900.
These notifications were included
in the Rivers and Harbors bill at
| the last session of congress, out the
bill was not approved.
Otker new work projects to be
undertaken, if approved by con-
gress and funds made available
therefor, with the estimated cost of
each, are as follows:
The List
Silver Lake Harbor --------S60,0o
Chowan River ----.-------- le,oou
p,m,ico Sound to Avon $500
Pamlico Sound to Rodanthe : 5000
Thoroughfare Bay to CEDAR
Raw 20. 900
Dem broke Creek $500
Rollinson Channel -- $1,000
Beaufort Harbor 81, 900
Swan Quarter Bay to Deep
H.v 1880
Manteo TO Oregon Inlet $780, As, 1000
In addition it is expected hal ap'
proximately 100000 will be requir-
ed for maintenance dredging OIL the
various projects in the district
Great benefits are being derived
from the various i'm. ,rovements and
navigation interests are quick to
take advantage Of the improved
channels that are made available by
this river and harbors work.
One very noticeable result of such
work is the great increase in com
merce on the upper Cape Fear
river.
Since the completion of the canal
ization project, which provides eight
fee' Of water to Fayetteville, COM
merce on this section of the river
has been increasing in magnitude.
md the increase is constant with
no indication that it has yet reach.
ed the maximum.
During the calendar year Of 1899,
there was transported % Fayette-
vile approximately 45.765,500 gal
Ions of gasoline (150,997 tons) and
5,486.OOO gallons of kerosene (19,-
401 tons), a total of 1908 1913 tons, an
increase over 1888 of approximate
!y 20 per cent.
Not Yet Compiled
While the commerce on the in
land Waterway for 1899 has not
yet been compiled, indications are
that an increase in commerce will
be reported for the year.
In both of these projects, as in
many others in North Carolina, the
commerce resulting froil- the i'm.
provements has greatly exceeded the
estimates made by the optimistic
proponents of the projects.
The fact that congress at its cur
rent session may economic on riv-
ers and harbors and flood control
work has aroused the interest of
many organizations which believe
that such work essential even in the
time of national emergency. In d re-
cent issue of the National Rivers
and Harbors News. the following
appeared:
Should rivers and harbors and
flood control work figure in increas-
ed appropriations for defense pur-
poses, or should the money for such
work be slashed to the bone to make
way for other defense expenditures?
This is due to a burning issue
in the next congress (the current
SESSION. due to the apparent stand
of the budget bureau that such
work is not a part of the national
defense, and therefore should suf-
fer reduced appropriations to make
way for work that is.
well, the national rivers and
harbors congress differs radically
with the budget bureau on this
point and SO. apparently does Ma
jor General Julian l.. Schley, chief
of the army engineers, who should
know what he is talking about.
Here is what General Schlev had
to say about the subject, discussing