Sarilla River, Georgia, 350 miles long, is being improved so as to afford steamboat navi gation 93 miles up-stream. The channel of Saint Mary's River for 1254 miles above its mouth is 17 feet deep and 200 feet wide and for 2455 miles still further up-stream the channel is being cleared The Altamaha River is being improved its entire length of 137 miles. It will have a chan nel 60 to 100 feet wide and four feet deep. Its tonnage in 1417 was 37,625 tons. The River Oconee for 145 miles and °emu!gee for 205 miles, who confluence forms the Altamaha, are being improved in the same manner as the Lst•nameil river. The inner and outer har bors of Brunswick, Ga., are to be dredged to a depth of X) feet at mean low water and equip with terminal facilities. Fernandina Har bor, Florida, and Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida, are also being improved.
The Jacksonville, Fla., district includes 26 rivets and harbors undergoing improvement to various navigable depths.
Saint John's River is to have a channel from 300 to 600 feet wide and a depth of 24 to 30 feet from Jacksonville to the ocean, a distance of 224 miles, and a channel 200 feet wide and 13 feet deep from Jacksonville to Palatka, a distance of 55 miles, and a channel 100 feet and eight feet deep from Palatka to San ford and five feet deep from Sanford to Lake Harney, the two last improvements extending up the river 115 miles above Palatka. Lake Crescent, 14 miles long and one to three miles wide, is in touch with Saint John's River through Dunn's Creek, eight and one-half miles k rest. with a channel 100 feet wide and eight feet deep.
In 1917. the total number of arrivals and de parture of steamers, motor hoats, sail boats, lighters and rafts on the Saint John's River was 10.0022 The freight traffic was 174,609 tons A waterway, known as the East Coast Canal, extends from Saint John's River to Key West, Fla The channel of the Oklarnaha River, Florida. a tributary of Saint John's River, is being cleared to a depth of six feet from its mouth to Silver Springs Run, a distance of 62 miles. Indian River has a channel 75 feet wide and five feet deep for 77 miles; Lucie Inlet with a channel 203 feet wide and 18 feet deep connects Indian River with the ocean, 235 miles south •• Saint John's River. The Miami Harbor has an entrance channel 300 feet wide and 20 feet deep It embraces artificial basins and dredged channels through to the ocean with parallel pro jecting stone It has wharves and piers.
same of which are public. Its water-borne tonnage in 1917 was 244,380 tons.
The harbor at Key West has a channel 300 feet wide and 30 feet deep. The channel oppo site the wharves is 26 feet deep and ROO feet wide. It is an important harbor affording shelter for vessels exposed to hurricanes. It had a tonnage in 1917 of 745,056 tons.
Gulf Coast —The Kissimmee River is being cleared and is to have a channel 30 feet wide and three feet deep for 9454 miles, connecting several interior lakes, including Kissimmee, Tohopekaliga and Okeechobee, connected many years by canals with Lake Hiepochee. The lowering of the water in Lake Okeechobee for drainage purposes has interfered with the navi gation of the upper Kissimmee River which was navigable for 137 miles. The Caloosa hatchee River has a channel 200 feet wide and 12 feet deep to Puntarasa and thence a channel 100 feet wide and 10 feet deep Myers, p to Fort Myer where there is a turning basin and a channel from two to four feet deep to Fort Thompson. Fort Myers is 20 miles from Charlotte Bay and Fort Thompson is 43 miles from Fort Myers. A drainage canal connects Fort Thompson through Lake Hicpochee with Lake Okeechobee. That is to be improved and made navigable so there will he a navigable channel through from Charlotte Harbor to Lake Tohopekahlea. The Orange River, a tributary of the Caloosa hatchee, is also being dredged so as to have a navigable depth of four feet for a distance of six miles. Charlotte Harbor is from five to 11 miles wide and 11 miles long and is to have a channel 300 feet wide and 24 feet deep to Boca Grande, and 10 feet deep to Puma Gorda and six or seven feet in Pine Island Sound. There is now a channel 12 feet deep up Peace River to Puma Gorda, 200 feet wide in the bay and 120 feet wide in Peace River. In 1917 the tonnage was 304,095 tons.
Sarasota Bay is to be brought into navigable communication with Tampa Bay on the north by a proposed channel 100 feet wide and five feet deep. Little Sarasota Bay has a channel 75 feet wide and three feet deep to Venice. Tampa Bay is a large body of water 25 miles long to Gadsend Peninsula where it divides into Hillsboro Bay and Old Western Tampa Bay. It is from seven to ten miles wide. It has a channel from its entrance to Port Tampa 200 fret wide and 26 feet deep. Its tonnage in 1917 was 1,181,076 tons.