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... sand parapet is essentially completed . In the south battery during the year the breast - height wall for four gun- positions has been built . At the mortar battery the most western mag- azine and shell - room , and the pit for mortar ...
... sand parapet is essentially completed . In the south battery during the year the breast - height wall for four gun- positions has been built . At the mortar battery the most western mag- azine and shell - room , and the pit for mortar ...
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... Sand D 17. ) 9. Cleveland Harbor , Ohio . - Sixty - five thousand six hundred and sixty- four cubic yards of material were removed from the channel between the piers , and both piers were repaired during the year . Amount available July ...
... Sand D 17. ) 9. Cleveland Harbor , Ohio . - Sixty - five thousand six hundred and sixty- four cubic yards of material were removed from the channel between the piers , and both piers were repaired during the year . Amount available July ...
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... sand has since accumulated upon the sites , and changes are constantly going on , giving a variable depth of 9 to 11 ... sand pumped up from the bar . The pump - engine was driven by steam from the steamer's boiler , and the sand pumped ...
... sand has since accumulated upon the sites , and changes are constantly going on , giving a variable depth of 9 to 11 ... sand pumped up from the bar . The pump - engine was driven by steam from the steamer's boiler , and the sand pumped ...
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... sand accumulates around it with gratifying rapidity . In addition , attention has continued to be given to the maintenance of ex- isting sand - hills and beaches , and to the formation of new ones , by the use of cheap catch - sand ...
... sand accumulates around it with gratifying rapidity . In addition , attention has continued to be given to the maintenance of ex- isting sand - hills and beaches , and to the formation of new ones , by the use of cheap catch - sand ...
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... sand - bars , which move at variable rates during moderate stages . The motion depends not so much upon the stage of water as upon the rapidity of the change from high to low ; the bars appear to move more from pressure than by the ...
... sand - bars , which move at variable rates during moderate stages . The motion depends not so much upon the stage of water as upon the rapidity of the change from high to low ; the bars appear to move more from pressure than by the ...
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Page 35 - making appropriations for the repair, preservation and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 441 - ... mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the...
Page 159 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Brigadier- General and Chief of Engineers. Hon. WW BELKNAP, Secretary of War.
Page 56 - Mexico, to be completed within twenty years; of the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Missouri and the mouth of the Ohio River...
Page 746 - GENERAL : I have the honor to transmit herewith my annual reports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, upon the works of river-improvement under my charge.
Page 441 - War ; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to navigation created by the construction of any bridge under this Act.
Page 29 - ... with a statement showing the amount expended during the fiscal year, and the amount that can be profitably expended during the next fiscal year, is submitted herewith. For more detailed information in regard to the improvements, and for the results of the surveys and examinations ordered by Congress, and not found in...
Page 543 - GENERAL : In compliance with your instructions I have the honor to submit the following report of the...
Page 426 - Rouge, and Carrollton, on the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Missouri and the Gulf of Mexico; and at or in the vicinity of Fort...
Page 441 - ... and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; And until...