Annual Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 |
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act of August Amount appropriated amount available amount expended Annual Report appropriated by act Assistant Engineer August 11 balance available banks Bayou boats canal cent channel Chief of Engineers commerce COMMERCIAL STATISTICS completion of existing compliance with requirements contract Corps of Engineers cost Cross Tides cubic yards dams distance draught dredging Edisto Edisto River ending June 30 exclusive of liabilities existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal feet deep feet wide Fig Island fiscal year ending freight harbor acts high water jetty June 14 length liabilities outstanding July Little Rock logs low-water mattresses mean low water miles Money statement Mosquito Creek mouth navigation North obstructions port profitably expended Punta Rassa removed riprap river and harbor rock sand Santee River Savannah River shoals shore snags South Carolina south jetty steam-boat steamers stone Submitted in compliance survey tion tons training-wall vessels width wing-dams Winyaw Yadkin River
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Page 1383 - Dardanelle a bad bar had formed along the town front, cutting off all approach to either wharf at low water or at medium stage. From Fort Gibson to the mouth of the river the river consists of alternating bars and caving banks, with crossings more or less troublesome at low water, a few of the latter operating to effectually close the river to navigation at extreme low water for even boats drawing but 2 feet of water. During...
Page 1012 - In addition to this there is a large fleet of foreign steamers and coastwise and foreign sailingvessels, the foreign vessels, both sail and steam, being as a rule of great draught. The increased facilities for navigation afforded by the improvements already executed have resulted in largely reducing rates of marine freight and insurance. At the lowest estimates the annual saving in freight rates alone, due to this cause, amounts to more than the total sum of money expended by the United States upon...
Page 1358 - The appropriation in the act of 1880 contained the following proviso : " No part of this appropriation shall be used until the State of Mississippi shall have first caused the bridges south of the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad to be so constructed as not to obstruct the navigation of said stream.
Page 815 - SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, showing: First. The condition of the business of the insular purchasing agent in connection with the handling of the various appropriations for the "Purchase of supplies...
Page 1358 - Ferry, about 50 miles above the mouth ; and the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway Bridge, about 15 miles above the mouth. The fixed railway bridge was changed to a swing bridge in 1889...
Page 1196 - June 18, 1878, appropriated the sum of $10,000. The survey was made and a report was submitted to the Chief of Engineers suggesting several plans of improvement. In March...
Page 1369 - IMPROVEMENT OF BIG HATCHEE RIVER, TENNESSEE. This river has its source in northern Mississippi, flows in a northwesterly and then westerly direction, through the most productive region of West Tennessee, and enters Mississippi River about 50 miles above Memphis.
Page 1116 - Report ot the Chief of Engineers for 1880. The project adopted is to improve the river by the removal of snags, overhanging trees, and loose rocks, and the deepening of some of the worst shoals and a bar at the mouth of the river, so as to enable boats drawing 2 feet to navigate the river during about half the year from the mouth to Hay's Ferry, a distance of 100 miles.
Page 1242 - Pass, to secure and maintain a channel 26 feet in depth through the pass, and through the jetties at the mouth of the pass a channel " 20 feet in depth, not less than 200 feet in width at the bottom, and having through it a central depth of 30 feet without regard to width.
Page 782 - December, 1880, for dredging 400,000 cubic yards of material from the Washington Channel and depositing it on the flats at a specified place. The contract was to have been completed August 27. 1887. On that date practically no work had been done. In view of the fact that the contractor had made arrangements to put on a new style of pumping machine, which it was thought might be of benefit in future operations at this place, the Secretary of War extended his contract until January 27, 1888. " The...