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15 feet 50 feet act approved June Amount appropriated amount available Amount estimated amount expended appropriated by act approved June 18 bluffs Board of Engineers board-measure boats breakwater built canal channel Chief of Engineers collection-district commenced completion of existing construction contract cords cribs cubic yards depth Diagram draw-bridge dredging Dubuque ending June 30 existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal feet long feet wide fiscal year ending G. K. WARREN harbor height high water high-water improvement inches Iowa July lake length linear feet low water Michigan miles Mississippi River Money statement navigation north pier Number of vessels Ohio Ohio River piles placed plank port pounds Prairie du Chien profitably expended rafts railroad railway repairs required for completion revetment riprap Rock Island Saint Louis Saint Paul sand shore side south pier span stone Stratum Sturgeon Bay superstructure survey timber tonnage tons valley velocity west pier width
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Page 971 - That all railway companies desiring to use said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges in the passage of the same, and in the use of the machinery and fixtures thereof, and of all the approaches thereto...
Page 971 - ... approaches thereto, under and upon such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, upon hearing the allegations and proofs of the parties, in case they shall not agree.
Page 854 - to investigate and report a permanent plan for reclamation of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi subject to inundation," of which commission I was president.
Page 1045 - War ; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to navigation created by the construction of any bridge under this Act.
Page 897 - ... earliest convenience to the local engineer in charge of the department in which this work is located. I remain, yours, very truly, ALEX. MITCHELL, President. Hon. ALEX. RAMSEY, Secretary of War. [Referred to the Chief of Engineers.] [ Indorsements. ] OFFICE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, US ARMY, July 13, 1880. Respectfully returned to the Honorable the Secretary of War, inviting attention to the accompanying reports on the subject from Capt. A. Mackenzie, Corps of Engineers, the officer in charge of the...
Page 1102 - During the latter part of August and the first part of September, after prices in the Chicago market had begun to rise, The American Agricultural Chemical Co.
Page 966 - Miwiwippi and Saint Croix Rivers shall be so constructed as not to obstruct the navigation of said rivers. The name of this company was afterward changed to the Hastings and Dakota Railroad Company. All the bridge companies that have built bridges on the Mississippi, below the .junction of the Saint Croix, where its channel forms the boundary line between the States, and over the Saint Croix River (where it forms part of the boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota), have thought it accessary to...
Page 1088 - ... process of erection across the Ohio River, and to report whether, in their opinion, such bridges, or any of them, as now constructed, or proposed to be constructed, do or will interfere with the free and safe navigation of said river ; and if they do or will so interfere, to report also what extent of span and elevation above water will be required to prevent obstruction to navigation, and their estimate of the cost required to change such bridges now built, or being built, to such width of span...
Page 1036 - The board having this fact in view, examined the line of the ferry between Rock Island city and Davenport, and found that there would be no practical difficulty in the erection of a bridge at this site, or near it, which bridge, if constructed on proper principles would be no material obstruction to navigation. 9. The board under this head deems it expedient to submit a statement of the number of steamboats and rafts which have passed the bridge, as well as the number of passengers and loaded cars...
Page 1077 - ... that it seems hardly possible that any one would have been allowed to so obstruct a navigable stream. There was nothing left the navigator but to stop or to undertake risks for which he had to pay all the damages. The case of the Lady Pike was decided at the October term in 1874 (Wallace Reports, vol.