Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... $33, 000 00 Amount that can be protirably expended in tiscal yearending June 30, 1887 10,000 00 Snbmitted in compliance with requirements of section 2 of river and

harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix F 4.) 5. Cheesequakes Creek, New Jersey.—The original condition of the channel over the bar or shoal at the month gives a depth of 1 foot at mean low water for about three-fourths of the length to be improved, and for the remaiuing portion a depth from 4 feet to 14 feet at low water. The course of the creek is very crooked and requires to be straightened.

The originally adopted project (1879) for the improvement was to close the old outlet with sheet-pile like 532 feet long; to open a new outlet at right angles with the beach 1,600 feet long, 200 feet wide, and 5 feet deep, mean low water, and to sustain the banks by lateral stone jetties, each 1,500 feet long; to build a timber dike at mouth of Back Creek 200 feet long; to dredge a channel between New Landing and Furman's Dock 400 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 4 feet deep; to excavate a cut through the meadow 1,050 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, and to build a timber dike 1,000 feet long; to dredge a channel above Furman's Dock 400 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 4 feet deep; to cut through the meadow 650 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, and to build a timber dike 300 feet long, and dredge a cut to Whitehead's Dock 1,500 feet long, 50 to 100 feet wide, and 4 feet deep. The distance from the mouth to the lead of the projected channel is 34 miles.

The range of tides is 5.1 feet at the entrance. The amount expended to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, was $39,968.73.

At that date the improved channel through the beach was 1,600 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 5 feet depth of water, mean low water, and was confined by parallel stone jetties located 200 feet apart between axis, the east jetty being 925 feet long, and the west jetty 995 feet long.

The original outlet was closed by a timber bulkhead 532 feet long, erected on the south side of the county-road bridge, and a new bridge, with a draw.opening of 40 feet in the clear, was built over the improved channel Dear its western extremity. No work of improvement was done during the year.

The improved channel and the accessory works of maintenance and protection have remained unimpaired during the year.

The amount that can be profitably expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, if appropriated, will be applied toward the maintenance of existing improvements.

The benefit to be expected is the encouragement given to commerce by keeping open a channel with a minimum depth of 5 feet, mean low water. The commerce of the river bas not increased during the year.

The arerage annual tonnage of exports and imports is 50,000 tons, which has ali estimated valuation of $200,000, approximately. July 1, 1884, amount available..

$31 27 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884.....

29 75 July 1, 1885, amount available....

1 52 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... 50,000 00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal yearending June 30,1887 5, 000 00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of section 2 of river and

6. Passaic River above Newark, New Jersey.-The present project wa adopted in 1872, and provides for the formation and maintenance, b means of dredging and training-dikes, of a channel varying in widt from 60 to 75 feet and 6 feet deep at low water from Center street, Ne ark, to the head of navigation at Dundee Dam, Passaic, a distance" 8 miles. The original navigable depth was only 2 feet low sta and the range of tides at Passaic City is 3 feet. The river is divi into pools, having an average depth of 9 to 10 feet, by a series of bar named consecutively, up-stream from Newark, Middle, Lime Kil Belleville, Rutherford Park, and Holzman's bars. At all these bar the obstructing material consisted of indurated rock, bowlders, grave and sand, and the project required a channel to be cut through the with an average width of 60 feet, with training dikes at Middle, Ruther ford, and Bellville bars. The amount expended to the close of the fi cal year ending June 30, 1884, was $120,428.16, and at that date the in proyed channel at Middle Bar was 1,400 feet long, 60 feet wide, an 74 feet deep, mean low water; at Lime Kiln Bar, 2,370 feet long, 60 t 75 feet wide, and 72 feet deep; at Belleville, 2,300 feet long, 75 to 10 feet wide, and 7 feet deep; at Rutherford Park, 2,900 feet long, 60 fee wide, and 6 feet deep, and at Holzman's Bar 1,300 feet long, 60 fee wide, and 6 feet deep, low stage. A small bar, without name, abov Holzman's, had also been dredged to give a channel 300 feet long, feet wide, and 6 feet deep.

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The amount expended during the year ending June 30, 1885, wa $1,299.58, which includes outstanding liabilities, and was applied i widening the channel at Lime Kiln Bar to 75 feet, giving greater facil ties for the navigation of the upper river. This improvement was b gun June 10, 1885, and is still in progress; 1,945 cubic yards of mat rial were removed during the year and deposited behind the Bellevill dike.

The amount that can be profitably expended during the fiscal yea ending June 30, 1887, if appropriated, will be applied to the opening a channel 1,500 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 74 feet deep, low stage, fro Erie Railroad Bridge, Fourth avenue, Newark, to connection with th improved channel through Middle Bar, which is required to meet tl demands of commerce due to the continued extension up-stream of th city wharves.

The original project of 1872, for which the estimate was $123,924, ha been completed, and the desired results have been attained in accor ance with the estimate. The improvement for which an appropriatio is recommended for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, was not i cluded in the project for 1872, and should be regarded as supplementar to that project.

The navigation of the river is now practicable throughout the yea from Newark to Passaic for river boats drawing 5 feet. At Passa navigation is obstructed by the Dundee Dam, built by a company po sessing a State charter to build a canal from Passaic to Dundee Lak above the dam. It is not advisable to make projects for improving th river above the dam until the canal company is forced to carry out th terms of its charter by the construction of a canal around the dam wit 6 feet depth over the miter-sill. This question is now before the Sta courts. The obstruction offered by the dam compels the commerce ori inating at Paterson to be carried by rail or through the inferior Morr and Essex Canal. The combined manufacturing interests located o the Passaic River from Newark to Paterson are valued at $20,000,00 The benefit to be expected is the improved navigable facilities of th

river, causing an increase of commerce and a diminution of expense to manufacturers and producers.

July 1, 1884, amount available......

$571 84

Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884.

3,000 00

3,571 84

July 1, 1835, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of

outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884..

$346 53

July 1, 1885, outstanding liabilities..

953 05

1,299 58

2,272 26

July 1, 1885, amount available................

Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1887 Submitted in compliance with requirements of section 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix F 6.)

5,000 00

7. Passaic River below Newark, and removing shoals in Newark Bay, New Jersey. The project for this improvement was adopted in 1880 and revised in 1884. It provides for the formation and maintenance of a channel, by dredging and diking, 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep, mean low water, from the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge at Centre street, Newark, to Newark Bay. The navigable depth at the beginning of the improvement was less than 7 feet, mean low water; the average range of tides at Newark being 4.7 feet. The project provides for 1,180 feet of diking in the river, and 12,000 feet in Newark Bay. None of the first and only 4,705 feet of the latter have been built. The amount expended to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, was $122,991.47. At that date there was a completed dike at the entrance, ranning south into Newark Bay, 4,006 feet long, and the improved channel, affording 10 feet, mean low water, had been carried to Centre street, Newark, the upper limit of the project. At the entrance the channel width was 400 feet; thence to New York and Newark Bridge 200 feet, and thence to Centre street only 100 feet.

The depth is sufficient for present purposes, but the widths are inadequate for shipping.

By act of July 5, 1884, $25,000 were appropriated for continuing the improvement.

The amount expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, was $18,291.41, including outstanding liabilities.

At that date the dike at the entrance was 4,705 feet long; the improved channel through the shoal in Newark Bay was 2,000 feet long, 100 feet wide and 10 feet deep, mean low water; at the entrance to the river the width was 400 feet for 500 feet, thence to New York and Newark Bridge 200 feet, and thence to Centre street 100 feet only. The removal of the shoal in Newark Bay has added greatly to the facilities for navigating the river, by enabling vessels drawing 14 feet to reach Newark at high water.

The amount that can be profitably expended during the year ending June 30, 1887, if appropriated, will be applied in extending the dike at the entrance 4,000 feet southward to embrace the improved channel through shoal below Passaic Light, and 1,000 feet northward to protect right bank of river at the entrance; in building 4,000 feet of pile diking in the river between Zinc Works and the Toll Bridge opposite Point No-Point, and in dredging 30,000 cubic yards of material from the river in the vicinity of Point No-Point for widening and deepening the existing channel. These improvements are necessary for convenience of

navigation of the river and bay, and to protect and maintain the exist ing channel. During the early spring the dike at the entrance was damaged by ice. The repairs will be made by agreement with the present contractor at a cost not exceeding $1,315.

The estimated tonnage of the river, constantly increasing, is 1,200,000 tons, and is carried by over 22,000 vessels. The city of Newark has a population of over 150,000 souls, 1,400 manufacturing establishments, employing 40,000 hands, and the total annual product of all industries is estimated at $70,000,000. The capital invested is $30,000,000 or more. The improvements, so far as they have advanced, have been a decided success, and have greatly increased the commercial standing of Newark; and it would seem as if it will not be long before shipping will demand 15 feet, mean low water, to the city.

Since 1878, when the navigable depth was only 7 feet, mean low water, the revenue collected at Newark has increased threefold.

July 1, 1884, amount available ...

Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884..

$8.53

25,000 00

July 1, 1885, outstanding liabilities..

July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884.

Jnly 1, 1885, amount available

6,711 12

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project (revised 1884).

205,875 00

Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1887 125, 000 00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of section 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix F 7.)

8. Channel between Staten Island and New Jersey.-The project for this improvement, formed in 1873, and revised in 1880, provides for the excavation of a channel 400 feet wide from the east side of Shooter's Island to the deep water of Arthur's Kill, the central portion of which for a width of 200 feet shall be 13 feet depth, mean low water, and the residue 12 feet. Training-dikes were included in the project to maintain the channels once opened by dredging. The original condition of the navigable channel was a depth at the shoalest part of 9 to 10 feet at mean low water, and was not, therefore, available for the vast commerce passing through it. The mean range of tides is 4.7 feet.

The amount expended to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, was $92,204.62. At that date there was an improved navigable channel from Shooter's Island to Elizabethport 300 to 400 feet wide and 12 feet deep, mean low water, affording a channel 5,000 feet long, 150 feet to 200 feet wide and 13 feet deep, mean low water, along the axis. The amount expended during the year ending June 30, 1885, was $11,397.91.

The channel was widened at the eastern entrance and at the corner stake to full 400 feet, and the depth along the axis for a width of 200 feet was made 14 feet, mean low water. The amount that can be profitably expended during the year ending June 30, 1887, if appropriated, will be applied toward the construction of Dyke B on the south side of channel, westward of the Stake Light, and toward the removal by dredging of any deposits which may have taken place to obstruct navigation since the suspension of the work of improvement. The especial

benefit to be derived from this improvement is the better maintenance of the channel by preventing the formation of shoals.

The channel is a most important one. The gross annual tonnage carried through it is estimated at 16,000,000 tons, having a money valuatiou of $60,000,000. Over 100,000 vessels use the channel annually. July 1, 1884, aniount available

$1,795 38 Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884.

10, 000 00

11, 795 38 July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884.

11,397 91 Jnly 1, 1005, amount available.

397 47 (Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... 81,70.; 00 Amount that can be protitally expended in fiscal year ending June 30,1687 35,000 00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of section 2 of river and

barbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix F 8.)

9. Shrewsbury Rirer, New Jersey.—The present project was adopted in 1879, and provides for the formation of a channel 6 feet deep, mean low water, from Sandy Hook to Red Bank on the north branch, a distance of 45 miles, and to Branch port in the south branch, a distance of 5 miles. The original condition of the navigable channel was 4.3 feet, mean low water, at the entrance, 3 feet in the north branch, and 2.8 feet in the south brauch. The range of tides at Highland Bridge is 3.6 feet. The improvements which have been made consist of a pile dike at Crave Point on tbe right bank, at the entrance, 4,021 feet long; an improved channel across the bar 2,100 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 6 feet deep; an inproved channel from Island Beach to Highland Bridge 1,800 feet long, 25 to 100 feet wide, and 6 feet deep; a pile dike on right bank of north branch, from entrance running toward Barley Point, 1,885 feet long; an improved channel at Barley Point 1,300 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 6 feet deep, and an improved channel at Oceavio Wharf 600 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 6 feet deep; a pile dike on left bank of south branch, at entrance, 1,856 feet long, and an improved channel there 2,000 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 6 feet deep; an im. proved channel above Seabright Bridge 400 feet long, 60 feet wide, and I feet deep, through rock and cement gravel; a pile dike on left bank at Gunning Island, leading to Pleasure Bay, 1,513 feet long; a pile dike on right bauk at Sedge Island 503 feet long, and an improved channel 3,510 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 6 feet deep. The completion of the project requires the widening of the improved channels in the main stem, north and south branches, to 300 feet, and the construction of 1,940 feet of diking on the north branch, on the right bank, at the en. trance. The estimated cost of the project was $244,500. The amount expended to close of tiscal year ending June 30, 1884, was $193,912.19. At that date tbere was convenient navigation, to boats and vessels drawing 5 to 6 feet, to Seabright on the south branch and to Red Bank on the north bank at all stages of the tide, and to boats drawing not more than 4 feet to Branchport. Since the suspension of the improvement, in 1883, these depths have been reduced 4 to 14 feet by shoal formations in both branches and in the main stem below the Highlands, and it is certain that the improved channels cannot be maintained until Dike C, projected for the right bank of the north branch, is completed. No work was done during the year. The amount which can be profitably expended during the tiscal year ending June 30, 1887, if appropriated, will be applied in completing Dike C a length of 1,940