January, 1891, as the time when the required alterations are to be made and completed.

7. Bridge over the Muskingum River, Ohio, between the towns of Beverly and Waterford.-Notice dated December 8, 1888, was served upon the commissioners of Washington County, Ohio, prescribing the 30th day of September, 1889, as the time when the required alterations are to be made and completed.

8. Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge across the Mississippi River at Keokuk, Iowa.-Notice dated December 19, 1888, was served upon the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company, prescribing the 31st day of March, 1889, as the time when the alterations are to made and completed.

The bridge company having failed to comply with the requirements of the Secretary of War, contained in the notice referred to, the matter was, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, referred by the Secretary of War, April 13, 1889, to the Attorney-General of the United States, with request for such action as is required by law.

The case is in the hands of the United States attorney for the southern district of Iowa.

9. Bridges across the White River, Indiana.-1. Notice dated December 19, 1888, was served upon the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Company, prescribing the 1st day of January, 1890, as a reasonable time when the alteration is to be made and completed.

2. Notice dated December 19, 1888, was served upon the Evansville and Indianapolis Railroad Company, operating railroad bridge at Rogers, Ind., on White River, one-half mile above its forks, prescribing the 1st day of January, 1890, as a reasonable time when the required alteration is to be made and completed.

10. Bridge of the St. Paul and Duluth Railway Company across the St. Louis River from Grassy Point, Minnesota.-Notice dated January 2, 1889, was served upon the St. Paul and Duluth Railway Company, prescribing the 1st day of September, 1889, as the time when the required alteration is to be made and completed.

11. Bridges across the Kentucky River.-1. Notice dated January 2, 1889, was served upon the Mayor of the city of Frankfort, Ky., in regard to the bridge over the Kentucky River, at foot of St. Clair street, in that city, prescribing the 1st day of January, 1890, as the time when the required alteration is to be made and completed."

Upon request of the Authorities of Franklin County and of the city of Frankfort, dated July 9, 1889, the time for completing the alterations was extended by the Secretary of War to January 1, 1891.

2. Notice dated January 2, 1889, was served upon the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company in regard to the railroad bridge across the Kentucky River at Frankfort, Ky., prescribing that the required alteration is to be completed on or before the 1st day of January, 1890. The time for completing the alteration was subsequently extended to January 9, 1891.

3. Notice dated January 2, 1889, was served upon the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, operating and controlling the railroad bridge at Worthville, Ky., prescribing the 1st day of January, 1890, as time when the required alteration is to be made and completed. The time for completing the alteration was subsequently extended to January 9, 1891.

12. Bridge of Raritan River Railroad Company across the South River, New Jersey.-Notice dated January 22, 1889, was served upon the Presi dent of the Raritan River Railroad Company, and the time in which such alteration is to be made and completed was prescribed as June 1,

1889. This time was extended first to July 11, 1889, and then to July 21, 1889. No action appears to have been taken under the notice of the Secretary of War above referred to.

13. Bridge across or near the mouth of Moodna, or Murderer's, Creek, in Cornwall, Orange County, in the State of New York.-Notice dated January 28, 1889, was given to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, lessee of the West Shore Railroad, via west shore of the Hudson River, prescribing the 1st day of July, 1889, as the time when the required alteration is to be made and completed. The railroad company having failed to comply with the notice of the Secretary of War within the prescribed time, the subject was brought to the attention of the Attorney-General of the United States July 23, 1889, with request that he take the action prescribed by sections 9 and 10 of the river and harbor act of August 11, 1888.

14. Bridge of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad Company across the St. Francis River, Arkansas.-Notice dated February 10, 1889, was served upon the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad Company, and the 1st day of September, 1889, was prescribed as the time when the required alteration is to be made and completed.

15. Bridge of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company across Kingsley's Creek, a part of the inland communication between Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida.-Notice dated March 2, 1889, was given to the Florida Railway and Navigation Company, and the 15th day of April, 1889, was prescribed as the time when the required alteration is to be made and completed. Upon application from the receiver of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company, the time for completing the alteration was extended to May 1, 1889.

This bridge has been provided with a draw-span 56.7 feet in width, which is suflicient for the purposes of navigation.

16. Bridges across the Muskingum River, Ohio.-Notice dated March 18, 1889, was served upon the Commissioners of Muskingum County, Ohio, owning or controlling the canal of the Muskingum River navigation at Zanesville, in reference to bridge over the canal at that place, prescribing the 1st day of November, 1889, as the time when the required alteration is to be made and completed. Also,

Notice dated March 18, 1889, was served upon the Commissioners of Muskingum County, Ohio, owning or controlling the bridge across the Muskingum River at the lead of Fifth street, Zanesville, Ohio, known as the Fifth Street Bridge, prescribing the 1st day of November, 1889, as a reasonable time in which the required alteration is to be made and completed.

Notice dated March 20, 1889, was served upon the Commissioners of Washington County, Ohio, owning or controlling the Lowell Canal, in reference to the bridge across the canal, prescribing the 1st day of November, 1889, as a reasonable time when the required alteration is to be made and completed.

17. Bridge of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company across the Ocmulgee River, Georgia, near Lumber City.-This bridge having been reported as an obstruction to navigation, notice dated April 12, 1889, was served upon the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway prescribing the 1st day of August, 1889, as a reasonable time when the required alteration is to be made and completed.

18. Bridges across Lumber River, North Carolina, as follows: At Fair Bluff, at Princess Ann, at Ivey Bluff, at Phillips, and at Mathews Bluff, owned jointly by the counties of Robeson and Columbus, in the State of North Carolina.

Notices dated April 19, 1889, to the Boards of Commissioners of Columbus and Robeson counties, North Carolina, were served May 7, 1889. A period of six months from November 7, 1889, was prescribed by the Secretary of War as a reasonable time within which the required alterations are to be made and completed.

MISCELLANEOUS.

[Public works not provided for in acts making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of works on rivers and harbors.]

MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS OF WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT—INCREASING WATER SUPPLY OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON—WATER SUPPLY, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ACT MARCH 2, 1889-ERECTION OF FISHWAYS AT THE GREAT FALLS OF THE POTOMAC.

Officers in charge, Maj. G. J. Lydecker, Corps of Engineers, until March 6, 1889, and since that date Lieut. Col. John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, Colonel, U. S. Army; First Lieut. C. McD. Townsend, Corps of Engineers, under the immediate orders of the engineer in charge during the entire year.

1. Washington Aqueduct.-Operations have been in progress during the year maintaining the aqueduct, gate-houses, reservoirs, and Conduit road in good condition.

Repairs have been made from time to time when necessary; the canal bank near the entrance to the conduit has been strengthened and the grounds improved in that locality; the reservoirs, the gates, valves, revetments, etc., have been kept in order, buildings repaired when necessary, fences repaired and whitewashed, and grounds improved. The Conduit road has been repaired and improved, about 1,000 cubic yards of broken stone having been used for this purpose.

The freshet which reached its maximum (16 feet over the dam) on the morning of June 2, 1889, did some damage of a minor character in the vicinity of the entrance to the conduit at the Great Falls, all of which was promptly repaired. It also tore some of the coping-stone from the old portion of the dam near Conn's Island, about 1,000 feet from the mouth of the conduit; preparations were at once made for replacing these stone as soon as the level of the water would admit, and the work will be completed at an early day.

Amount appropriated by act of July 18, 1888..
Amount appropriated by act of March 2, 1889...

$20,000.00

20,000.00

July 1, 1889, amount expended during fiscal year..
July 1, 1889, outstanding liabilities....

40,000.00

$15, 946. 49

1,787. 17

July 1, 1889, amount to be covered into the United States
Treasury

2,266, 34

20,000.00

20,000.00

July 1, 1889, balance available.......

Amount required for fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, $20,000, being the same sum as that appropriated for the past ten years for engineering, maintenance, repairs, care of reservoirs, and everything necessary to keep the aqueduct, reservoirs, etc., in good condition.

See Appendix Z Z 1.)

2. Increasing water supply of the city of Washington.-The approved project for this work comprises, first, the extension of the dam at the

Great Falls of the Potomac across Conn's Island and the Virginia Channel to the Virginia shore, and the completion of the whole to an elevation of 148 feet above mean high tide at the navy-yard, this elevation being about 15 inches above the crest of the old dam across the Maryland Channel of the river; second, the extension of the aqueduct by a tunnel 20,696.3 feet long from the distributing reservoir above George. town to the site of the new reservoir near Howard University; third, construction of a new reservoir capable of holding about 300,000,000 gallons of water; fourth, making the necessary main connections for taking water from the new reservoir into the system of supply mains for the city.

Operations during the fiscal year were confined to the tunnel; between July 1, 1888, and November 1, 1888, 4,654 linear feet of the tunnel was enlarged to proper dimensions; 3,904 feet cleaned of muck, and 4,5474 feet reported as lined with brick and rubble masonry, making a total of 14,617 feet reported as lined.

In September, 1888, charges were made that improper work was be ing done under the contract. Investigations were commenced at once and continued by the officer in charge and by special expert engineers under authority of a Congressional committee, and the facts developed proved that systematic frauds had been in progress and much bad work done.

Operations were suspended November 1, 1888, and the pumping in the shafts finally discontinued March 28, 1889; water commenced running out from near the top of Rock Creek shaft on the morning of May 4, 1889.

The openings of the shafts of West connection, Foundry Branch, and Rock Creek have been protected by building fences around them, and the openings at Champlain avenue and the new reservoir will be similarly protected as soon as the contractors remove their head houses and cages.

The old useless buildings at the new reservoir have been sold and removed, and the proceeds of sale turned into the Treasury.

July 1, 1888, amount unexpended on all items of appropria-
tion.

July 1, 1889, amount expended during fiscal year.
July 1, 1889, outstanding liabilities, retained percentages on
contract of Beckwith & Quackenbush, as reported by the
predecessor of the officer in charge..

$112, 454.50

$550, 194. 65

July 1, 1889, amount covered by existing contracts.

24, 419.68 209, 193.50

346,067, 68

204, 126.97

July 1, 1889, balance available, (less $611. 24 disbursed directly from the
United States Treasury Department for advertising).....

No appropriation is asked for the next fiscal year.

(See Appendix Z Z 2.)

3. Water supply, District of Columbia.-The act of Congress approved March 2, 1889, provides as follows:

Water supply, District of Columbia.-To enable the Secretary of War to cause to be constructed and put in operation a forty-eight inch cast-iron main from the present distributing reservoir above Georgetown, easterly to Rock Creek at M street, and thence along M street to New Hampshire avenue; thence northeasterly along New Hampshire avenue to R street north; thence along R street, to connect with the present forty-eight-inch main from the new reservoir at R and Fourth streets, and to make the necessary connections, and to provide the necessary apparatus for thereby specially supplying the present deficiencies of water at the higher levels of the city, and in general to increase the water supply, five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. The said work shall be done under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, in the shortest practicable

time. If it shall appear to the Secretary of War, on the report of the Chief of Engineers, that for any cause the work can not be carried on, or material therefor can not be obtained as rapidly as is necessary for the best and most vigorous prosecution of it, he is authorized to provide material by purchase in open market, or by special contract for the fabrication thereof, and to carry on the work by days' work or otherwise, as it may seem to him expedient. This appropriation shall be charged against the revenues applicable to the expenses of carrying on the government of the District of Columbia, so that one half will be paid from the Treasury of the United States and the other half from moneys derived from taxation in the District.

Within a few days after the appropriation bill became a law work was inaugurated preparing plans and specifications for laying the new 48-inch mains.

Proposals were invited in April for the necessary pipe and valves, and contracts made in May and June with the Gloucester Iron Works of Philadelphia, Pa., the Camden Iron Works of Philadelphia, Pa., and the McNeal Pipe and Foundry Co. of Burlington, N. J., for the pipe and special castings, and with the Mohawk and Hudson Manufacturing Co. of Waterford, N. Y., for the valves.

In addition to the line specially mentioned in the act of Congress it was deemed advisable under the terms of the law to lay a 30-inch main from New Jersey avenue and B street to East Capitol and Eleventh streets, and plans and specifications were prepared for this work and the necessary pipe ordered under contracts already made.

In May a contract was made with Messrs. Springmann & Brother, of Washington, D. C., for hauling the pipe from the depots and wharves to the locality where it is to be laid, and at the close of the year contracts had been awarded to Thomas B. Coyle, of Washington, D. C., for the necessary trenching, to Messrs. Clendenin Brothers, of Baltimore, Md., for the lead, and to Rowland A. Robbins, of New York, N. Y., for the jute required for calking the joints

By June 30, 4,100 feet of straight pipe, averaging about 1,300 tons, and about 45 tons of special castings, had been cast at the various foundries, 1,405 feet, averaging 472 tons, had been delivered in Washington, and work well advanced upon the valves.

It is hoped and believed, unless unanticipated delay arises in the delivery of the pipe under the various contracts, that before the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, water will be flowing through the new mains.

No further appropriation is asked for the next fiscal year. (See Appendix Z Z 3.)

4. Erection of fish ways at the Great Falls of the Potomac.—No work of construction has been in progress during the year.

Plans and specifications for a new system of fish-ways are being prepared under the supervision of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. By direction of the Secretary of War the construction will be carried on under the direction of the Commissioner above mentioned, the engi neer in charge being held responsible only for the proper protection of the dam at the Great Falls and for the disbursement of the funds ap propriated.