Classification. EXHIBIT B. Consolidated bill of dike repairs, reenforcement, removal, extensions, and alterations made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. EXHIBIT C. Bill of cost of revetment repairs in Murrays Bend made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. Bill of expenditures on account of procuring willow brush during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. a 1,295.5 cords of brush received from Gasconade Division is included in this item. EXHIBIT E. 30, 1897. Bill of expenditures on account of procuring rock ballast during the fiscal year ending June EXHIBIT F. Bill of expenditure on account of plant during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. Bill of cost of survey work done during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. Statement of liabilities incurred under suballotment for systematic improvement in first reach on account of improvement in Osage Division for each month of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. Grand total of liabilities incurred during fiscal year on account of suballotment for systematic improvement, first reach... Add value of construction materials and supplies on hand September 6, 1896. Total Deduct value of construction materials and supplies on hand June 30, 1897.. $58, 939. 46 13, 453. 11 72, 392.57 14, 688.97 Total net expenditure since September 6, 1896, on account improvement Osage Division... 57, 703. 60 EXHIBIT I. Consolidated bill of expenditures on account of new mouth of Osage River during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. Classification. Purchase of land at Osage Point, 10.8 acres, at $100 per acre.. Construction of new work, Dike 19 A, as shown in Exhibit A Removal of part of Dike 19 B, clearing proposed channel, degrading and rebracing Dike 19 B, as shown in Exhibit B.. Closing breach in Dike 19 B, as shown in Exhibit B. Reinforcing, extending, and repairing breach in Dike 19 A, as shown in Exhibit B.. Degrading and rebracing Dike 26, as shown in Exhibit B.. Total Cost in item. $1,080.00 6, 534. 94 1, 933. 92 901.04 10, 661. 24 68.64 129.29 21, 309. 07 APPENDIX J. ANNUAL REPORT OF MR. S. WATERS FOX, DIVISION ENGINEER, GASCONADE DIVISION. MISSOURI RIVER COMMISSION, OFFICE OF DIVISION ENGINEER, COLONEL: I have the honor to submit herewith a report of the operations under my charge on the Gasconade Division of the Missouri River for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. The following illustrations accompany: A map (Pl. I) of the river from Isbell Station to Rhineland, as developed from a survey made last fall, showing proposed rectification of shore lines and location and character of improvement works completed, in process of construction, and proposed; also cross sections of the river at intervals of about 1,000 feet, and steamboat channels. Seventeen plates (Pls. II to XVIII) showing in superimposition low stage cross sections of the river reduced to standard low water, with a view to illustrating progress made toward rectification. Six photographic views (Pls. XIX to XXIV) showing dike construction parties at work and completed dikes. Six photographic views (Pls. XXV to XXX) showing a bank-head in various stages of construction and after completion. Six plates (Pls. XXXI to XXXVI) illustrating, by means of dry and wet contours and float paths and velocities, characteristic features of accretions and bottom, as well as currents, that obtain in Missouri River from permeable dikes. Three plates (Pls. XXXVII to XXXIX) illustrating, by means of contours and float paths and velocities, the conditions of flow in Chamois Reach prior to the growth of accretion above Dike 28 A', and the commencement of the construction of the bankhead and after. One plate (Pl. XL) showing in superimposition a series of partial cross sections inside and outside of outer wall of bank-head, covering a period beginning three days prior to commencement of work on the structure and extending some seventyone days after it had been practically completed. One plate (Pl. XLI) showing the plan followed in constructing the bank-head. The operations of the year comprised revetment and dike construction, as well as the repairing of both kinds of work; the construction of an experimental bank-head, designed as a substitute for revetment; the care and repair of plant; surveying; the preparation of projects and maps, with estimates of cost; examinations and special reports on conditions at several points outside of first 1each, and miscellaneous inci dental work. The work was done under an allotment of $164,000 for continuing the systematic improvement in first reach and in accordance with my project of July 13, 1896, as revised from time to time by yourself. The total expenditure during the year was $116,133.14, as shown in Appendix, Exhibit I. REVETMENT. Heckmann Island No. 3 (see Pl. I, K', L').—The earliest and all subsequent projects for the improvement of the Straubs Bend reach contemplated the protection of the south bank of this island by a revetment which should extend around the head of the island and well into Boatwrights Chute, but because of the postponement from time to time of the construction of the group of dikes against Miller Island and the final abandonment of that feature of the original scheme of rectification, the necessity for this work did not sooner develop, or at least it was suffered to wait on more urgent demands. The pool developed by the Bluffton group of dikes finally extended so far down that the closing of Boatwrights Chute (by the extension of Dike XV, and thus incidentally farther extending the pool) and protection of the island became at once necessary. A small party was put to work on August 6 clearing the bank of timber and undergrowth. Mattress weaving was commenced with one party August 12 and completed September 1. A second party was in service from August 20 to 28. In all, 2,725 linear feet, or 250,674 square feet, of mattress was woven, including one lap. The bank grading followed the weaving, but the trenches for dead-men anchorage were cut in advance with a jet supplied by hydraulic grader. The latter work was commenced August 6, the former six days later. Grading was completed September 24. Two thousand three hundred and twenty-five linear feet of bank, containing 7,530 cubic yards of earth, was graded to an average slope of 1 on 3. The distribution of ballast on mattress and upper bank commenced on August 21 and was completed September 24. The total quantity of rock ballast expended on the revetment was 7,677.2 cubic yards, an average of 2.87 cubic yards per linear foot. The cost of the revetment, as shown in detail in Appendix, Exhibit A, was $16,960.32, or $6.34 per linear foot. REVETMENT REPAIRS. The only expense incurred on account of the other revetments on this division was for the maintenance rather than repair of the Chamois Bend revetment. One hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents was expended in placing 220 cubic yards of quarry chips on two bare spots on the mattress of that work in the locality of 8,500 feet below its head. The aggregate length of revetment now on the Gasconade division (23 miles of river) is 47,003 linear feet, or 8.9 miles. It is all now in excellent condition. The total cost of the work was $317,941.61, an average of $6.53 per linear foot. The total cost for repairs and maintenance to date is $5,712.82. Some of the work is now four years old, but the major portion of it a little more than two years. DIKE WORK. There were only two entirely new dikes built during the year-dikes XI A and XI B, in the middle section of Chamois Bend. These two and a third-Dike XI C— lower down were originally projected to fair up that part of the bend, with revetment above and below, but it was subsequently decided to omit them and revet the bank, making that work continuous. Since the construction of the revetment the thalweg has taken the shape and laid in close to the shore of this bay, and there has been a middle ground in the next lower bay, but until recently, when the bar growth above Dike XXVIII A' had practically stopped the cross current resulting from longitudinal flow on the upper side of that dike, the development of the left-hand waterway was to some extent held in check. Now a marked crossing has been effected, but with a middle ground still in the bay below; a chute of considerable size has developed to the north of the towhead and the head and south bank of the latter, which has been uncovered by the washing away of the shore bar, is now rapidly yielding to the main flow of the river. It was to correct or ameliorate these conditions that the two dikes referred to were built. Other dike work consisted in extensions, repairs, and alterations of old work. Dike XI A.-Work on this dike was commenced on June 14 and practically completed June 27. The structure is 240 feet long; the first four bents are two-row and the others three-row work. The piles in the upper row of the other eight bents were reinforced by ten extra piles. The mattress of the revetment was utilized as a foot mattress for the dike as far as the eleventh bent from the shore; from that point a new mattress was made, 30 feet wide above the upper row of piles for four bents and 40 feet from there out a distance 40 feet beyond the end of the dike. The |