Probable annual cost of keeping the piers in repair, $1,000. Huron is a port in the collection district of Sandusky, Ohio, near the Huron beacon-light. Revenue collected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, $30. Number of entries, 34; number of clearances, 34; aggregate tonnage, 8,239. No appropriation recommended. D 6. REPORT UPON THE IMPROVEMENT OF VERMILLION HARBOR, OHIO. No money has been available, for any improvement, during the year. The piers are in fair condition. It is probable that the shipping from this port has slightly increased during the year, but there is ample water in the channel-way to meet all the requirements of the commerce of the harbor. No appropriation is asked for any improvement. Probable cost of keeping piers in repair, $1,000. Vermillion is a port in the collection district of Sandusky, Ohio, near Vermillion beacon-light. Duties collected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, $102. Number of entries and departures for the same period 68, with an aggregate tonnage of 1,239. D 7. REPORT UPON THE IMPROVEMENT OF BLACK RIVER HARBOR, OHIO. Nothing of any consequence has been done during the year. The piers are in good repair and the channel has 12 feet of water. Balance June 30, 1870... Expended during the year....... Balance June 30, 1871.... $7,980 05 66 00 7,914 05 No further improvement of the harbor is required. Probably $1,000 annually will suffice to keep piers in repair. Black River is in the collection district of Cuyahoga, Ohio, near the Black River beacon-light. D 8. REPORT UPON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CLEVELAND HARBOR, OHIO. The head of the east pier which, was run into by a steamer in October, and badly injured, and which was further damaged by a storm in the same month, has been completely repaired from the water-line seven courses upward, using in this work 7,000 feet (board measure) timber and plank, 1,200 pounds of iron and spike, 20 cords of rubble-stone. The work was done by days labor. The decking of the east pier has been greatly injured by mariners during the year; the almost entire absence of snubbing posts has made mariners resort to such parts of the pier as were attainable; most generally they have cut through the decking adjoining the side timbers and hitched on to the joists. Snubbing-posts will be put in and the piers repaired during July. An appropriation of $20,000 was made July 11, 1870, for the further improvement of the harbor. Sealed proposals were publicly invited to February 15, 1871, for removing from the outer bar and from the channel between the piers 30,000 cubic yards, more or less, of sand, and a contract was made with Andrew Spalding, of Buffalo, New York, March 7, 1871, at 25 cents per cubic yard, with a further allowance of $25 per day for each dredge when unable to work on account of rough and windy weather. Work was commenced with two dredges June 3, with directions to make a cut 50 feet wide, in the middle of the channel, giving 18 feet water, and to extend the same from near the railroad swingbridge to the 18-foot curve north of the end of the entrance piers. When the 50-foot cut is completed, it will be widened on either side by two 20-foot cuts, giving respectively 17 and 16 feet water. This depth of water is very necessary; the entrance to the harbor is so exposed that during storms, with unfavorable winds, the depth of water on the outer bar has been known to be diminished 5 feet, a condition of affairs exceedingly dangerous now for vessels drawing more than 10 feet. Up to the close of the fiscal year about 9,500 cubic yards had been removed. Cleveland is in the collection district of Cuyahoga, near Cleveland light and beacon. During the year ending June 30, 1871, there was collected from duties at this port the sum of $173,409 03; number of entries and departures, 7,216; tonnage, 2,145,062. Amount probably required annually to keep the piers in repair, $1,000. No further appropriation recommended. Abstract of bids for dredging the bar and channel at Cleveland Harbor, Ohio, opened at the United States Engineer Office at Painesville, Ohio, in accordance with the terms of an advertisement dated January 15, 1871, inviting proposals for the same. D 9. REPORT UPON THE IMPROVEMENT OF GRAND RIVER HARBOR, FAIRPORT, OHIO. No work of improvement has been done during the year. Balance June 30, 1870 .... Expended during the year Balance June 30, 1871.... $33, 606 94 77 70 33, 529 24 Probable annual cost of keeping piers in repair $1,500. The east and west piers will be repaired and snubbing-posts added during the season. The work will be done by days' labor. Grand River is in the collection district of Cuyahoga, Ohio, near Grand River light. The amount of revenues collected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, was $455. D 10. REPORT UPON THE IMPROVEMENT OF ASHTABULA HARBOR. Nothing has been done at this harbor during the year. An appro priation was made March 3, 1871, for $15,000 for the further improvement of the harbor. Sealed proposals were publicly invited to May 25, 1871, for removing from the channel, between the piers, about 7,000 cubic yards, more or less, of shale rock by blasting and dredging, so as to give a depth of 12 feet at low water, and a contract was made with Lee & Dunbar of Erie, Pennsylvania, June 17, 1871, at $2 25 per cubic yard. Work under this contract will commence in July. The 60feet channel blasted out in 1869-70 will be widened to the full distance between the piers. Balance June 30, 1870... Appropriated March 3, 1871. Total.... Expended during the year. Balance June 30, 1871.... No additional appropriation is recommended. $150 22 15, 000 00 15, 150 22 5.00 15,145 22 Amount probably required annually to keep piers in repair, $800. Ashtabula Harbor is in the collection district of Cuyahoga, Ohio, near Ashtabula beacon-light. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, there was collected here from duties $100 49. Number of entries of vessels during the same period, 42. Number of departures, 43. Aggregate tonnage, 8,788. Abstract of proposals for improving Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, opened at Buffalo, New York, May 25, 1871. D. 11. REPORT UPON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONNEAUT HARBOR, OHIO. The end of the west pier, which had settled 5 feet after its construc tion, was in November leveled up to a height of 7 feet above the water, using for this purpose 12,000 feet, board measure, of timber and plank, 1,400 pounds of iron and spikes, 70 cords of stone. This work was done by days' labor. An appropriation was made July 11, 1870, for $6,000 for the further improvement of the harbor. Sealed proposals were publicly invited to May 29, 1871, for the material and workmanship necessary in the extension of the east pier a distance of 90 feet, and a contract was made with Hugh W. Smith, of Buffalo, New York, June 17, 1871, at the sev eral prices contained in the abstract of proposals accompanying this report. Work under this contract will commence in July. No additional appropriation recommended. Amount probably required annually to keep piers in repair, $800. Conneaut is in the collection district of Cuyahoga, Ohio, near Conneaut beacon-light. |