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can be decided whether an extension of the west pier will best accom

plish the end desired.

Balance available July 1, 1868.

Expended during the fiscal year.

$45, 582 40

10, 777 37

Balance on hand July 1, 1869.

No further appropriation is required. (See Appendix D 9.)

34,805 03

10. Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio.-The extension of both the east and west piers has been completed, both running out now to the twelve-foot curve, and they are of equal length and parallel. The contract for dredging the harbor out to twelve-feet depth is let at a reasonable rate, and will probably be completed this year. No further appropriation is needed. Amount on hand June 30, 1868. Expended during the fiscal year..

Balance on hand July 1, 1869.

$48, 310 16

28, 412 94

19, 897 22

Which is sufficient to complete the dredging, and which will probably be expended by December. (See Appendix D 10.)

11. Conneaut Harbor, Ohio. The breach made by Conneaut Creek into the lake and behind the east pier has been repaired, and the place secured against a similar accident. The cribs of the west pier extension were sunk in place in June, since which time the entire extension has been completed.

Received and expended during the year..

Allotted from appropriation of April 10, 1869.

Which has been expended in completing the pier work.

$14,213 74 9,000 00

Still to be appropriated, in order to complete the harbor, $6,000. (See Appendix D 11.)

12. Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania.-The work at this harbor during the past year has consisted of the repair of three-quarters of the damaged north pier, and the dredging of the channels over the inner and the outer bars. The former work has stood the storms of fall and winter without any perceptible settlement, proving the propriety of the system of repair adopted. The channel over the inner bar has been deepened to thirteen feet below low water for a width of one hundred feet, and a lump has been removed from the outer bar. There have been expended $21,173 76 in these operations.

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Leaving, of the amount called for in the last annual report. Still to be supplied by appropriation, to which must be added the cost of widening the channel......

Total required...

(See Appendix D 12.)

$15, 150 00

30, 750 00

45,900 00

HARBORS ON LAKE ERIE, EAST OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Officer in charge, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Harwood, cap. tain corps of engineers.

1. Dunkirk Harbor, New York. The west pier while in progress of construction, and nearly completed, was breached by the gale of the night of the 7th October, 1868. Owing to the lateness of the season the work was closed and secured for the winter. In the spring of 1869 the work of repair, reinforcement, and completion of this work was commenced, and at the close of the fiscal year was progressing. The construction of the new breakwater was commenced in the spring of 1869, and at the close of the fiscal year was in a forward state. The removal of the old outer breakwater had not yet been undertaken, but it was to be removed during the working season. It was expected that the west pier and a section of the breakwater (about nine hundred feet) would be completed by the close of the working season of 1869, exhausting the present appropriation, excepting a small balance retained for contingencies of repair. The recommendations of the last annual report are renewed.

Amount on hand July 1, 1868..
Received during the fiscal year.
Expended during the fiscal year.
On hand July 1, 1869..

Amount required, and which can be profitably expended dur-
ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871...
(See Appendices E, E 1, E 2, and E 3.)

$91, 666 55

60, 166 55

48, 985 31

42, 681 24

100, 000 00

2. Buffalo Harbor, New York.-The interior works of repair are nearly completed. The south pier has been extended three hundred and eighteen feet; but the dredging is deferred until the completion of the repairs of the piers. One hundred and fifty feet of the breakwater has been built to the low water level. It is expected that the interior harbor work will be completed during the present working season, and that there will be built by the close of the year 1870 from one thousand to one thousand two hundred feet of the breakwater, of which about eight hundred feet will be constructed under existing contracts, and the remainder from $90,000 allotted from the general appropriation of 1869.

Amount on hand July 1, 1868..
Received during the fiscal year....

Expended during the fiscal year.

propriation of April 10, 1869, ($89,100) . . .

On hand July 1, 1869, including amount allotted from ap

Amount required, and which can be profitably expended, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871.

(See Appendices E and E 4.)

HARBORS ON LAKE ONTARIO.

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Officer in charge Brevet Colonel N. Bowen, major corps of engineers, assisted by Captain W. A. Jones and First Lieutenant B. D. Greene, corps of engineers. (These harbors were in charge of Brevet Colonel Blunt, corps of engineers, until January, 1869, and of Brevet Brigadier General McAlester, corps of engineers, until his death, April 23, 1869.)

1. Olcott Harbor, (Eighteen Mile Creek,) New York.-Since last annual report two hundred and seventy-five running feet of the west pier have been completed, and seventy running feet of cribs filled with stone, without the superstructure. Two cribs of the east pier were sunk before the winter set in. Dredging has been done in the channel and on the line of the piers. The contracts for material and labor have been annulled, and in future the work will be done by days' labor. It is proposed during the coming year to continue the dredging in the channel and on the line of the piers, and to carry out the two piers as far as the appropriation will justify.

Amount available for the work July 1, 1868.

Amount available July 1, 1869

Required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871.

(See Appendix F.)

$50, 671 67

21, 312 46 50,000 00

2. Oak Orchard Harbor, New York.-Owing to the failure of the contractor for labor to comply with his contract, it was canceled and the work re-let. The loss of time consequent on this was very serious, and but little work has been done. The gap in the west pier has been finished except decking over. The old superstructure of the east pier has been removed, and three hundred running feet of cribs have been sunk and filled with stone. Dredging has been done in the channel and on the line of the piers. It is proposed during the coming year to expend the whole of the balance remaining on hand in continuing the work on the east and west piers and on dredging in the channel. Amount available for this work July 1, 1868. Amount available for this work July 1, 1869. Amount required to complete the work proposed to be done during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871....... (See Appendix F.)

$74,793 00

45, 350 43

50,000 00

3. Harbor of Charlotte, New York, (mouth of the Genesee River.)—This work progressed satisfactorily during the year until the appropriation became exhausted. Two thousand one hundred and ninety-eight running feet of cribs have been sunk and filled with stone upon the east pier, and were decked over for the security of the stone filling. There only remains to complete this pier forty eight feet of crib-work, two hundred and sixteen feet of superstructure, and the pier-head. An appropriation or $30,000 is urgently needed for this purpose, and $15,000 to secure the end of the west pier at its junction with the bank of the river. The officer in charge recommends the sale of portions of the west pier, at cost, to private parties, for wharfage, the proceeds of such sale to be used for repairing the pier proper.

$19,995 94 71 80

Amount available for the work July 2, 1868..
Amount available for the work July 1, 1869..
Amount required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871.. 45,000 00
(See Appendix F.)

4. Big Sodus Harbor, New York. The pier has been completed with the exception of the light-house head, 776 feet having been built during the fiscal year. There is material enough remaining on hand to add 90 feet to the length of the pier, before putting on the pier-head. This will be done during the coming season. The dredged channel has been

increased to width of 200 feet. To complete the closing of the space between the entrance and the east shore will require an appropriation of $30,000; to dredge the channel to the full width between the piers, $35,000; for necessary repairs, $10,000. This is the finest natural harbor on the lake, but its commerce is insignificant.

Amount available for this work July 1, 1868
Amount available for this work July 1, 1869
Amount required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871

(See Appendix F.)

$58, 645 46 8,056 53 35, 000 00

5. Little Sodus Harbor, New York.-The superstructure was completed upon the three hundred feet of pier which remained unfinished last season. The width of the dredged channel has been increased from eighty to two hundred feet. It was found in the spring that the pier had sunk several feet in some places, probably owing to dredging too near the face of the pier, and to the shifting sand of which the bottom is composed. Proposals have been received for the extension of the pier 150 feet, which will be completed this season, and will exhaust the present appropriation. To complete this improvement as originally proposed will require an additional sum of $35,000, and to restore the sunken parts of the present pier and to rebuild the breakwater $25,000 will be required.

Amount available for this harbor July 1, 1868
Amount available for this harbor July 1, 1869
Amount required for the year ending June 30, 1871, to
make the necessary repairs, and to dredge so much as
may be required to clear the channel..

(See Appendix F.)

$27,860 51 4, 017 39

25, 000 00

6. Oswego Harbor, New York.-The work of the fiscal year has been confined to repairs of the United States pier and dredging the space inclosed by it.

It was proposed to prolong the pier 400 feet northerly during the fiscal year, but the work being unavoidably delayed, it will not be completed until the close of the present working season.

For the next fiscal year there will be required to complete the repairs undertaken this season and other repairs that may be necessary, $35,000. This amount will level up and refill the whole of the old pier, repair breaches in the old stone parapet, and put the work in good order.

Amount available for this work July 1, 1868

Allotted from appropriation of 1868.

Allotted from appropriation of 1869.

Expended during the fiscal year.

Amount available July 1, 1869..

Amount required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871 (See Appendix F.)

$49, 823 90 20, 000 00 22,500 00 20, 997 69 70,326 23

35, 000 00

7. Ogdensburg Harbor, New York.-A contract was entered into last autumn for dredging in the Oswegatchie River, below the bridge, and upon the outer bar north of the light-house. At the end of the fiscal year the channel through the outer bar had been completed. During the remainder of the present working season, dredging in the river below the bridge will be continued until the available funds are exhausted. A recent survey shows a clear channel at least 12 feet deep below low

water, and averaging 300 feet in width. No difficulty is experienced in

entering the river.

Amount available for this work July 1, 1868....
Amount available for this work July 1, 1869....

$37, 118 58 19, 272 49

No additional amount is asked for this harbor until the effect of the dredging recently carried on is fully developed. (See Appendix F.)

HARBORS ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

Officer in charge, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. W. Barlow, captain corps of engineers.

1. Plattsburg Harbor, New York. The repairs on the breakwater having been completed, the available balance of the specific appropriation for the improvement of this harbor ($6,212 38) has been applied to increasing the depth of water on the shoal between the breakwater and the wharves. By dredging, a depth of seven feet has been obtained on this shoal. The recommendation of last year is renewed, that the depth of water in this harbor be increased to nine feet. The demands of the increasing commerce of this port would seem to require a further extension of the breakwater. The officer in charge recommends an extension of three hundred feet to the northward. He also recommends that the foot of the slope along the government reservation be revetted. The estimated cost of these improvements is...

Amount of funds available July 1, 1868
Expended during year ending June 30, 1869

Balance remaining July 1, 1869.....

Amount that could be profitably expended on this harbor next season.

(See Appendix G.)

$50,000 00

$6,212 38 5, 631 53

580 85

$25,000 00

2. Burlington Harbor, Vermont.-The work now in hand for the improvement of this harbor consists of an extension of the breakwater in accordance with the plan adopted and referred to in previous reports. During the working season of 1868, six cribs were placed in position and filled with stone, giving five hundred lineal feet additional length of breakwater. During the present working season the work has been resumed, and it is expected that with the amount of money available for this improvement, one hundred and sixty feet of crib-work will be completed, making a total extension of six hundred and sixty feet, leaving about eight hundred and forty feet of breakwater to be built to complete this work in accordance with the plan adopted.

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