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00 Dist Adjutant-General Army Assistant Adjutant-General August Bloody Island bridge canal Captain cents channel Chief of Engineers Colo Colonel Colorado Commanding Commissioner of Indian Congress construction Consul copy cost Creek dated December Delaware Delaware Bay DEPARTMENT depth Detroit River dike distance dredging E. A. HAYT estimate feet ferry Fort Garland Fort Leavenworth Fort Omaha harbor HATCH HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION herewith honor Illinois shore improvement inclosed Indian Affairs Indian Agent indorsement INTERIOR jetties July June land letter low water low-water miles Missouri N. C. MEEKER navigation November obedient servant October October 15 OFFICE OF INDIAN Ouray P. H. SHERIDAN pass pier Pinos Agency Railroad recommend reservation revetment road route Saint Louis Sassafras River Secretary of War Senate settlers Southern Ute survey Telegram tion transmit Uncompahgre United States Indian Ute Indians Washington White River Agency White River Utes width
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Page 11 - To construct such permanent and sufficient jetties and such auxiliary works as are necessary to create and permanently maintain, as hereinafter set forth, a wide and deep channel between the South Pass of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico...
Page 14 - For attendance at a shipwreck, or for the purpose of assisting a ship in distress, or of saving wrecked goods or property, over and above traveling expenses...
Page 2 - ... all the orders and findings made by the commission in the several claims. 3d. A docket of all the petitions or claims filed, furnishing a reference to the orders of the commission in each claim. 4th. A schedule, as provided by law, showing the name of each claimant, and of each lot or parcel of land, the appraised value thereof, and numbers to correspond with such claim upon the map. 5th. Appraisement books, containing the valuation of each lot or tract of land in the reservation remaining to...
Page 14 - ... touching at or near ports In Canada on her regular voyage from one port to another within the United States, unless some official service required...
Page 7 - ... individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit...
Page 154 - ... which the agency buildings stand at a corner. This parcel lies between the river and the street coming to the agency, and embraces probably 200 acres, and the plan was to devote 50 acres next the street and agency to tilled crops and the remainder to grass land, and to inclose the whole with one common fence. First, it is necessary to have fields contiguous, that fences may be watched and depredators kept in check, and also to make the work of irrigation as inexpensive as possible, since to carry...
Page 58 - July 6, 1879. DEAR SIR: In regard to your inquiries of the Ute Indians on the Upper North Platte, would say that there was about 65 or 70 lodges, as near as I can ascertain ; they camped on Jack Creek, about the middle of June ; they were evidently a hunting party, doing no damage and seeming perfectly friendly. They had caught some elk calves which they wanted to trade for cartridges, but the ranchmen would not trade. They traded them some butter for furs and skins, and killed enough game for their...
Page 2 - Detroit can be bridged or tunneled at the city of Detroit, or within one mile above or below said city, in such manner as to accommodate the large trade and commerce crossing the river at that point and without material or undue injury to the navigation of said river a good and sufficient tug being always kept by the bridge owners to assist any craft when required. Act of June 29, 1879 (21 Stats., 37). AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a "Mississippi River Commission" for the improvement of...
Page 49 - I have the honor to invite your attention to the inclosed copy of a report from the Board of Engineers, dated November 29 last, to whom the whole subject was referred.