The Dixie

FOSTER, District Judge.

This is a libel in rem by the River Sand & Gravel Company against the dredge Dixie.. The libel alleges, in sub*608Stance: That the dredge, while owned by the Louisiana Construction Company, was engaged in dredging in the Mississippi river at New Orleans and depositing the earth on the bank for the double purpose of deepening the river and building up a site -for a wharf on shore. That the said owner hired the dredge Katharine, belonging to libel-ant, to aid and assist in the said work, agreeing to pay the necessary expense of taking her from Angola, La., to New Orleans, and…