Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year ..., Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 |
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12 feet act of August Amount appropriated amount available amount expended appropriated by act August 11 balance available barges boats bowlders breakwater Bridge built canal cents channel Chief of Engineers coal commerce COMMERCIAL STATISTICS completion of existing compliance with requirements construction contract Corps of Engineers cost Creek cribs cubic yards Cumberland River depth dredging ending June 30 exclusive of liabilities existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal feet long feet wide fiscal year ending Fort Snelling freight harbor acts improvement Lake liabilities outstanding July linear feet lock and dam low water low-water Mary's Falls Canal miles Minnesota River Mississippi River Money statement mouth Muskingum River navigation obstructions Ohio Ohio River piles pounds profitably expended railroad removed repairs requirements of sections revetment riprap river and harbor rock Saint Paul season Shoals shore protection snags steam-boat steamers stone Submitted in compliance superstructure survey timber tons Total upper vessels width
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Page 1456 - Rapids; and of which sum the further amount of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used by the Secretary of War, in his discretion, for continuing the practical test of the flume invented by MJ Adams, the said test to be made under the supervision and direction of said Adams...
Page 1670 - LETTER OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY, Washington, DC, January 12, 1888. SIR : To comply with your instructions of July 21 last, that estimate...
Page 2085 - ¿'|_вро 11аг1шгя. dred and fifty feet wide and twenty-four feet deep at mean low water across the outer bar, and from thence to a point abreast of beacon number two, in San Diego Harbor, California; also, of obtaining a navigable channel at least eight feet in depth at mean low water at Newport Harbor, California; also, of the- establishment of a...
Page 2112 - ... stone, as may be found best, from a point 250 yards below the northern extremity of Fossil Point, on a line towards the east end of Coos Head ; this line in plan, curving so as to be directed at its outer end to the head, or a little to the north of it. The object is to prevent accretion to the south end of the...
Page 1424 - River, left bank, about 40 mues below Saint Louis. The improvement of this portion of the river is contemplated in the general project for the improvement of the Mississippi River between the mouths of the Ohio and Illinois rivers, and is better treated as belonging to this project as a whole than as a separate work.
Page 1512 - The examination of the river upon which this improvement is based was made in 1874, and the results thereof reported January 30, 1875 (see pages 375-380, Part I, Annual Report of Chief of Engineers, 1875). The estimated cost of improvement from Eau Claire to the mouth of the river, based upon that report, summed up, $139,892.50, of which $64,102.50 was estimated as the cost of protecting the Yellow Banks. The protection of these banks has since been made a separate work. Deducting this item, therefore,...
Page 1506 - 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...
Page 1935 - The details of the project are given at pages 1863 et seq. of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883.
Page 1519 - ... the steam-boats have carried the larger portion of the freight, and for some time to come they will do the same during seasons of navigation, for the reason that they (the steam-boats) can make all the landings along the river, whereas the railroads will strike only certain towns, leaving others along the river to depend upon steam-boats. The advantages and benefits to the people of the Lower St.
Page 1446 - The business of 1887 was not as large as in some former years, owing to low water. titeam-Tioais and freight. — The principal steam-boat lines on the Upper Mississippi River are the Saint Louis and Saint Paul Packet Company, the Diamond Jo Line, and the Eagle Packet Company. There are also many independent boats carrying freight and passengers. During...