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00 Amount estimated 00 July 00 See Appendix 12 feet Abstract of proposals act approved March act of June act of March Amount appropriated amount available amount expended appropriated by act batteries bidder Board of Engineers breakwater bridge canal channel Chief of Engineers Christiana River commenced completion of existing construction contract Corps of Engineers Creek cubic yards defense Delaware Delaware River dike dredging ending June 30 entrance exclusive of outstanding existing project Amount expended during fiscal expended in fiscal expended to June feet at mean feet deep feet wide fiscal year ending harbor act Island jetty June 14 Lake Lieut mean low-water miles Mississippi River mouth navigation obstructions outstanding liabilities July piers Point port present project profitably expended removal repairs required for completion river and harbor rock shoal shore snags survey thousand dollars tion tons torpedo vessels wharf width Willets Point William Flannery York
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Page 376 - ... cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Page 601 - This is now of great use to the steam-vessels employed in the fish-oil works at that place, and it is claimed that the increase of shipping in the harbor, particularly in the oyster business, for which those waters seem very well adapted, will soon require an 8-foot channel of fully 100 feet •width. Such a channel would involve the removal of about 45,000 cubic yards more of material, principally sand and gravel, which, at ruling prices, would cost, including superintendence and incidental expenses,...
Page 136 - ... being determined upon, with a width of channel ranging from 250 to 400 feet. This channel was completed in 1874, important changes of position having been given to a portion of it, by which the distance was materially lessened and the expense of maintenance decreased. The object of the improvement was to permit the approach to Baltimore, at mean low...
Page 521 - In the annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, will be found a history of the works then completed, giving their commencement, progress, and completion, which it is not deemed necessary to repeat in this report.
Page 351 - Columbia; of the construction of the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments; of the Washington Aqueduct, and the construction of the Washington National Monument. Member of Advisory Board to...
Page 520 - Narrows," to a depth of 23 feet at mean low-water; also, to the same depth the sunken ledges and bowlders recently discovered in the main ship-channel at the Upper Middle; also, Barrel Kock.
Page 87 - Besides the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation the island is an important point on our shores for ocean navigation. It has a signal station connected by submarine telegraph with the mainland. Vessels are passing the island at all times and on all sides of it, and its position renders it of national importance.
Page 634 - The amount that can be profitably expended in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, is the available balance, $18,823.22.
Page 486 - Gut" (or more commonly called "Upper Hell Gate"), which is about 2 miles distant from the city of Bath, the navigation of Back...
Page 100 - Gate, having a small backbone projecting above high water, and caught vessels swept upon it by the ebb currents, which passed directly over the rock. Hallet's Point and the Middle Reef may be said to have been alternate in mischievous functions ; vessels which escaped one ran a great risk of falling upon the other. What added considerably to the danger from these reefs •was the bend at right angles of the river at this spot.