Annual Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1883 |
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Page 2379 - SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the following report of the operations of this office for the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1911, together with an estimate of funds required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913.
Page 2326 - The stump stratum No. 1 (Port Hudson profile), however, as appears from numerous data collected by myself, or contained in Humphreys...
Page 2112 - March 3, 1881, will be found below. The following papers relating to the work of surveys and examinations are submitted as appendices to this report : Appendix A. — Annual report of the Secretary of the Commission upon the field-work of surveys.
Page 2091 - ... lands embraced in said survey and map, who shall for any reason not have been tendered payment therefor as above provided, or who shall have declined to accept the amount tendered therefor, and any person who, by reason of the taking of said land, or by the construction of the works hereinafter directed to be constructed, shall be directly injured in any property right, may, at any time within one year from the publication of notice by...
Page 2081 - Falls to the level of one hundred and forty-eight feet above tide, and extend the same at that level across Conn's Island to the Virginia shore ; and that he raise the embankment between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal above the dam, so as to protect the canal from the increased flooding which the completion of the dam...
Page 2320 - The bluff formation is often penetrated by numerous tubes or cylinders, about the size or thickness of pipe-stems, some larger and others smaller. They are composed of clay, carbonate of lime, and oxide of iron, being argillo-calcareous oxide of iron or calcareous clay ironstone.
Page 2091 - When the map and survey are completed, the Attorney- General shall proceed to ascertain the owners or claimants of the premises embraced in the survey, and shall cause to be published, for the space of thirty days, in one or more of the daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia, a description of the entire tract or tracts of land embraced in the survey, with a notice that the same has been taken for the...
Page 2282 - Commission, dated November 19, 1082, 1 have the honor to make the following report of the operations conducted under the supervision of the Commission, in the second district, from August 2, 1882, to December 1, 1882. MEMPHIS REACH AND HARBOR.
Page 2330 - ... it is highly improbable that it is no deeper than 31 at the city of New Orleans. It is true that the artesian well passed at that depth from swamp deposits into marine; the question to be decided is whether such a change is in this case a passage from one geological formation into another.
Page 2308 - A noticeable feature in front of the "gap" and one which in a great measure must be traced to it as its cause, is the formation of a flat on the west bank as shown by the deep contours — the 24-foot curve more especially. Starting at a point on the west shore, 3,000 feet above the