Yearly account. RECAPITULATION. Coal. Year. cargoes. ber of Amount. Average. ber of Amount. ber of Amount. DEAR SIR: Understanding that the matter of the improvement of the Neponset River has been referred to you, we write to urge your favorable report and recommendation of the improvement. Our business has increased about tenfold during the last ten years, i. e., from 1,200 to 12,000 tons in large vessels per year. During about two months of the year we have, on the average, one vessel per week and the vessels average from 400 to 800 tons each. On the other hand the channel of the river has been filling up. The current fills up the bends of the river and at the seasons of low-course tides our vessels are obliged to wait from a week to a fortnight before they can get up to our wharf. We earnestly hope that the proposed improvement will be made. Col. S. M. MANSFIELD, THE A. T. STEARNS LUMBER CO. United States Engineer. LETTER OF PRATT & COMPANY. NEPONSET, MASS., October 27, 1892. DEAR SIR: Replying to your inquiry we beg to say that we have a wharf on Neponset River, where we carry on the lumber business, having from thirty to forty vessels yearly. The deepening and widening the channel would be of great help to all doing business on the river. This improvement has been called for for many years and if the business now done is to be kept more water and wider channel must be had. Yours truly, Mr. J. M. B. CHURCHILL, PRATT & COMPANY. Yearly account. RECAPITULATION. Total Year. cargoes. ber of Amount. Average. ber of Amount. ber of Amount DEAR SIR: Understanding that the matter of the improvement of the Neponset River has been referred to you, we write to urge your favorable report and recommendation of the improvement. Our business has increased about tenfold during the last ten years, i. e., from 1,200 to 12,000 tons in large vessels per year. During about two months of the year we have, on the average, one vessel per week and the vessels average from 400 to 800 tons each. On the other hand the channel of the river has been filling up. The current fills up the bends of the river and at the seasons of low-course tides our vessels are obliged to wait from a week to a fortnight before they can get up to our wharf. We earnestly hope that the proposed improvement will be made. Col. S. M. MANSFIELD, THE A. T. STEARNS LUMBER CO. United States Engineer. LETTER OF PRATT & COMPANY. NEPONSET, MASS., October 27, 1892. DEAR SIR: Replying to your inquiry we beg to say that we have a wharf on Neponset River, where we carry on the lumber business, having from thirty to forty vessels yearly. The deepening and widening the channel would be of great help to all doing business on the river. This improvement has been called for for many years and if the business now done is to be kept more water and wider channel must be had. Yours truly, Mr. J. M. B. CHURCHILL, PRATT & COMPANY. |