 | Nicaragua Canal Construction Company - Canals - 1891 - 200 pages
...divide cut " has been pushed out about 1,000 feet, and is continually being filled in with mattrasses, rock and hydraulic cement concrete. Quarters for accommodation...supplies. In this breakwater, creosoted piling only is used in the frame work, as the marine worm (teredo navalis) would soon destroy unprotected wood.... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1892 - 762 pages
...much of the rock excavated from the divide cut, has been pushed out about 1,000 feet, and has been filled in with brush mattresses, rock, and hydraulic...storage for supplies were erected near this work, and a railroad track has been laid upon the breakwater and extended landward to facilitate the handling... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 986 pages
...pushed out about 1,000 feet and has been filled in with brush mattresses, rock, and hydraulic-cement concrete. Quarters for accommodation of the workmen...storage for supplies were erected near this work, and a railroad track has been laid upon the breakwater and extended laudward to facilitate the handling... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - United States - 1901 - 942 pages
...pushed out about 1,000 feet and has been filled in with brush mattresses, rock, and hydraulic-cement concrete. Quarters for accommodation of the workmen...storage for supplies were erected near this work, and a railroad track has been laid upon the breakwater and extended landward to facilitate the handling... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - United States - 1901 - 892 pages
...pushed out about 1 ,000 feet and has been filled in with brush mattresses, rock, and hydraulic-cement concrete. Quarters for accommodation of the workmen...storage for supplies were erected near this work, and a railroad track has been laid upon the breakwater ami extended landward to facilitate the handling... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 576 pages
...restoring the harbor. One of the means to this end was the erection of a breakwater for pro tection of the entrance. This massive work which will ultimately...used in the frame work, as the marine worm (teredo naralis) would soon destroy unprotected wood. The bar in front of the old San Juan harbor, which, in... | |
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One of the means to this end was the erection of a breakwater for pro tection of the entrance. This massive work which will ultimately absorb many hundred thousand cubic yards of the rock excavated from the Divide cut, has been pushed out about 1,000... 