If the work is to be continued the sum of $50,000 will be needed for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, to be expended in extending the line of submerged crib-work at the toe of the apron, repairs to the timber-work in he angle, and general repairs. Amount expended to June 30, 1884 (including outstanding liabilities), under the present project.... $395,000 00 July 1, 1883, amount available.... 1,461 22 July 1, 1884, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1883.. $938 38 July 1, 1884, outstanding liabilities.. 136 83 1,075 21 July 1, 1884, amount available..... 386 01 Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884.. 10,000 00 Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1885.. 10,386 01 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project (as cor- 74,792 00 50,000 00 2. Mississippi River above the Falls of Saint Anthony, Minnesota.-The present project, adopted in 1880, contemplates the improvement of the river mainly between Aitken and Grand Rapids by the removal of snags, bowlders, leaning trees, and bars, so as to afford from 3 to 5 feet depth of water for navigation. The cost is based upon the results of a survey made in 1874, and reported upon February 8, 1875, the estimate for improving the extent of river from Conradis Shoals (35 miles below Brainard) to Grand Rapids being placed at $54,127.50. Before the work of improvement commenced in 1880 boats drawing 2 feet of water frequently experienced difficulty between Aitken and Grand Rapids. The work thus far has given generally a 3-foot depth between those points, though bowlders yet remain requiring removal, and snags are always liable to form. The amount expended under this plan (including outstanding liabilities) to June 30, 1884, is $34,048.57. The sum of $10,000, asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, is to be expended in removal of snags, leaning trees, bowlders, and bars. July 1, 1883, amount available.. $6,031 80 July 1, 1884, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1883.. July 1, 1884, outstanding liabilities $4,976 70 July 1, 1884, amount available...... 5,080 37 951 43 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project, viz, im- 19, 127 50 10,000 00 3. Construction of lock and dam on Mississippi River at Meeker's Island, Minnesota. The project for this work is given in the report of the Chief of Engineers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, and the cost estimated at $922,121.46, the object being to connect with the improvement of the Mississippi River below Saint Paul, so as to secure steamboat navigation up to the Falls of Saint Anthony. No improvement of the river between Saint Paul and the site of the proposed lock and dam has been authorized by Congress. The act approved July 23, 1868, made a grant of 200,000 acres of pub lic lands to the State of Minnesota to aid in constructing a lock and dam at this point in accordance with plan and estimate previously submitted. The act of March 3, 1873, appropriated For construction of the lock and dam on the Mississippi River at Meeker's Island, Minnesota, according to the surveys and plans of the War Department, $25,000: Provided, That all rights and claims in and to the land grant made to the State of Minnesota for the above work by act approved July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall be fully relinquished to the United States before any of this appropriation is expended. None of this appropriation has been used, the required relinquishment not having been made, and the appropriation has been lying unused for eleven years. No appropriation is recommended for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. July 1, 1883, amount available.... July 1, 1884, amount available.. Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... (See Appendix Y 3.) $25,000 00 25,000 00 922, 121 46 4. Chippewa River, Wisconsin.-This work consists in the construction of dams and jetties to narrow the water-way and the revetment of banks, in accordance with the plan adopted in 1876, the cost of which was based upon results of a survey reported upon January 30, 1875. The cost was placed at $75,790; revised estimates, 1883, placed cost of completing necessary improvements at $49,476.35. With the balance of funds remaining from the appropriation of $35,000, by act of August 2, 1882, repairs were made to the east jetty at mouth of the river and Flower Pot Dam extended and repaired. Where works have been constructed and maintained the low-water depth, which was originally about 18 inches, has been increased to about 3 feet. The sum of $25,000 can be profitably expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, in continuing the work under the present plan. Total amount expended to June 30, 1884 (including outstanding liabilities), $81,902.89. July 1, 1883, amount available.. July 1, 1884, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1883 $6,523 13 July 1, 1884, outstanding liabilities.. $5,416 02 5,426 02 July 1, 1884, amount available.... 1,097 11 Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884. 15,000 00 Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1885...... 16,097 11 Amount (estimated) required for completion of improvement per revised estimate 34,476 35 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. 25,000 00 (See Appendix Y 4.) 5. Chippewa River at Yellow Banks, Wisconsin.-The project for this improvement was adopted in February, 1883, the cost based upon the results of a survey reported upon January 30, 1875, and a revision of the same in 1883. Object of the work is to prevent the wearing away of the high sand-banks, or bluffs, bordering the river between its mouth and Eau Claire. The protection work consists of revetment of brush, sand, and piles at foot of the slope. Total linear feet protected since commencement of work... Total linear feet partially protected Total linear feet remaining to be protected Total expended to June 30, 1884... 4,969 3, 145 14,575 -$29,214 88 The appropriation of $30,000 asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, to be applied in continuing the work as begun. July 1, 1883, amount available.... $16,879 30 July 1, 1884, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of $16,064 18 16, 094 18 785 12 July 1, 1884, amount available...... 66,000 00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of revised estimate... Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. 30,000 00 (See Appendix Y 5.) 6. Saint Croix River below Taylor's Falls, Minnesota and Wisconsin.The present project, adopted in 1880 and modified in 1882, contemplates the improvement of the stream by the removal of snags, bowlders, and sand-bars between Taylor's Falls and Prescott. The removal of obstructions continued during the season of 1883. Before improvement was undertaken 2 feet of water was the ruling depth on the bars at extreme low water above Stillwater and below Stillwater less than 4 feet. Wherever work has been done 3 feet has been the ruling depth above Stillwater and 4 feet below it at low-water stage. There is much interruption to navigation in the upper half of this piece of river from the operations of the log-booms. The appropriation of $26,450, asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, is to be applied to removal of obstructions to navigation below Taylor's Falls. Estimated cost of improvement as amended. Amount expended before its adoption..... $83,450 00 18, 000 00 47, 161 27 July 1, 1883, amount available 12,674 67 July 1, 1884, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1883 $11,627 62 July 1, 1884, outstanding liabilities 208 32 11, 835 94 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. 26,500,00 (See Appendix Y 6.) 7. Minnesota River, Minnesota.-No work was done during the fiscal year for want of funds. The last appropriation for this stream was $10,000, made by the river and harbor act of June 18, 1878. There has been expended (including outstanding liabilities) since the commencement of work the sum of $117,467 in clearing the river of obstructions. The stream has no com merce worth reporting. No appropriation is asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. July 1, 1883, amount available. July 1, 1884, amount available Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project (See Appendix Y 7.) $33 00 33.00 703,868 63 8. Red River of the North, Minnesota and Dakota.-The present project for the improvement of this river, adopted in 1879 and modified as to cost of same in 1883, consists in dredging the clay bars and mud lumps and removal of snags, &c., between Breckenridge and the Manitoba boundary line. There having been no appropriation for this work since that of August 2, 1882, no work of improvement could be done during the past fiscal year for want of funds. The dredging, commenced in 1879 and continued to the close of the season of navigation 1882, resulted in 98 miles of improved river, as follows: Eighty miles below Moorhead, an assured depth of 3 feet at low water; 18 miles below Grand Forks, assured depth of 4 feet at same stage. Before the work of improvement commenced the ruling depth in the stretch below Moorhead was 13 feet, and in that below Grand Forks, 2 feet. Total amount expended to June 30, 1884, $110,862.61. The appropriation of $30,000 asked for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, is to be expended in dredging the bars between Fargo and Saint Vincent. July 1, 1884, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of July 1, 1883, amount available outstanding liabilities July 1, 1883 July 1, 1884, outstanding liabilities... July 1, 1884, amount available Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884. Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1885 ... $4,504 02 $2,111 63 2,366 63 2,137 39 10,000 00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of improvement per revised 12, 137 39 56, 310 18 30,000 00 9. Lock and dam at Goose Rapids on the Red River of the North, Minnesota and Dakota.-The original estimate for this proposed work, 1877, was $219,287.99. Object, to overcome the fall at the worst obstructions near the head of the rapids, so as to connect with the dredging improvement of the river above and below the rapids. Congress, by acts March 3, 1881, and August 2, 1882, appropriated a total of $50,000 for the work. This sum being small in proportion to the probable cost of the work, and more detailed information in regard to the entire extent of rapids than was at hand being needed, a survey was made during the season of 1883, in order that a close estimate of the cost of improvement might be available for consideration. The report of the survey which was transmitted to the House of Representatives March 12, 1884, presented three plans, with estimates of cost, as follows: 1. Locks and dams at Buffalo Neck and Isabella Island, and necessary 2. Lock and dam at Buffalo Neck, and necessary dredging. . $481, 128 49 274, 128 49 30,000 00 The report suggested the advisability of substituting an improvement by dredging for that by locks and dams, and consideration of the advisability of rendering the appropriations already made available for the work of dredging. Should, however, the improvement by a lock and dam with dredged approaches (cost $274,128.49) be decided upon, the sum of $100,000, in addition to the sums already appropriated, can be profitably expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, in preliminaries, excavation, foundations, &c. Amount expended (in examinations) to June 30, 1884, is $3,052.35, which also is the total amount expended. July 1, 1883, amount available.. July 1, 1884, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1883... July 1, 1884, amount available .... Amount (estimated) required for completion of projected lock and dam, &c., if ordered to be built.... (See Appendix Y 9.) $49,404 76 2,457 11 46,947 65 224, 128 49 10. Reservoirs upon the headwaters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.-The object of the reservoirs is to collect surplus water, principally from the precipitation of winter, spring, and early summer, to be systematically released, so as to benefit navigation during the season of drought upon the reaches of the several streams below the dams, and also that of the Mississippi below Saint Paul. This project may be said to have been adopted in 1880 following an appropriation by Congress for the work by act approved June 14, 1880. The work upon the dams at the outlets of Lake Winnibigoshish and Leech Lake, and at the Falls of Pokegama, was continued throughout the fiscal year, and these dams and accessories are now finished. Preliminary work was begun during the past winter on the Pine River Dam at the outlet of Cross Lake, Minnesota. During a portion of the spring months and the month of June the gates of the Winnibigoshish and Leech Lake dams were closed more or less, and mainly for the purpose of facilitating work upon the dams. During the short time that the gates were thus closed, the surplus water collected in the two reservoirs was about 12,000,000,000 of cubic feet, an encouraging result. The reservoirs have been ordered by Congress in the interest of river navigation, and they should not be diverted from this purpose. Amount expended since the adoption of the project, $418,367.38. It is proposed to apply the sum of $140,000, estimated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, in continuing work upon the reservoirs on the headwaters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries above Crow Wing, Minn. Estimated cost of the system, exclusive of land damages, $1,809,083.50. July 1, 1883, amount available.... July 1, 1884, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1883 July 1, 1884, outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884, amount available...... Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884 $312, 118 67 Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1885.........、. Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. (See Appendix Y 10.) 166,632 62 .1, 224, 083 50 140, 000, 00 |