ON BRIDGING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BETWEEN SAINT PAUL, MINN., AND ST. LOUIS, MO., BY BREVET MAJOR GENERAL G. K. WARREN, MAJOR OF ENGINEERS; BEING APPENDIX X 3 OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS FOR 1878. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. [EXTRACT FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR.] OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, Washington, D. C., October 19, 1878. 5. Report upon bridging the Mississippi River between Saint Louis, Missouri, and Saint Paul, Minnesota.-The river and harbor act of June 23, 1866, made provision for examining and reporting upon the subject of constructing railroad bridges across the Mississippi, between Saint Paul, Minn., and Saint Louis, Mo., upon such plans of construction as would offer the least impediment to the navigation of that river. This subject was, at the time, assigned to Maj. G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers, but his report thereon has been delayed from the pressure of other important duties. Since the date of the act there has been an almost continued increase of new and important data. The surveys which Major Warren had caused to be made did not include the bridges and changes made since 1870, but surveys having since been made of those bridges, and much additional information obtained, the report was completed and submitted to this office in March last, and transmitted to the Senate at its last session and printed in Senate Executive Document No. 69, Forty-fifth Congress, second session. It is reprinted as Appendix X3 of this report. |