Show the to le deepened army officers are invests gating its feasibility gereral news ALBANY N Y jan 6 special A commission ot army officers in accordance cor dance with the act of congress met today to day at the city ball to give a public hearing in relation to the feasibility of deepening the channel f the upper andson the terms of the act maka it tho duty of the commission 10 examine alie obstructions to navi in the hudson river bo kwoi ew york city and afao state dam uti y and report u project and estimate ilie cost of widening said river between new york city and albany and also between new york city and the state dam at troy for the navigation of steam gong vessels drawing tweety feet oti water aud also a estimate ot the expense of improving the river between new york and the state dam to such an extent as to alcure a navigable cl iannel twelve feet deep at mean low water the inquiry today to day was directed to ascertaining certa ining the value of the proposed im pio to the commerce of alie state mayor james H manning of aliis city who was the llast examined by the commission that the immediate deepening of the hudson river is essential to alie development af the great hysten of waterways so im to the empire state including the great lakes alio llio erie oswego and cham plain canals and bludon river deais the state lias expended annually to on the navigation of alie apper hudson but he thought alie time bad now come for the federal government to imp ove pem and substantially the channel aa it has done in alie case ippi which giai but one third of alie hudson the subject he claimed was one of great importance oot only to the state of new york but also to alie great agricultural slates of the west A communication was read from mayor york expressing his earnest approval of the project |