Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, Part 2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - Engineering
 

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Page 879 - A proviso was added to the latter act, to the effect that neither of these appropriations shall be expended " until any corporate rights or franchises that may exist over said river shall have been relinquished to the United States, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War.
Page 1005 - ... the work was allowably done by hired labor and the purchase of materials in open market.
Page 811 - This defendant now and at all times hereafter saving and reserving unto himself all benefit and advantage of exception which can or may be had or taken to the many errors, uncertainties, and...
Page 847 - At this shoal a channel was dredged 2,270 feet to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water and a width of 40 feet. The total distance dredged during the year is 17,072 feet, and the total amount of material removed is 54,128 cubic yards, measured in place, which was deposited on the banks of the river 50 feet from edge of channel.
Page 773 - Stickney in his report of 1884, saying " the detailed plans for locks not being completed, no new estimate is presented, but it is probable that the cost of such locks as are deemed suitable for the work will increase the estimate somewhat.
Page 1181 - Corps of Engineers, but owing to legal complications as to the ownership of what was then known as the "Noyes Canal," nothing was done under the plans and specifications then submitted. In 1878, all fear of legal complications having been removed, an...
Page 827 - ... injure or destroy the harbor. All projects and expenditures prior to 1875 appear to have been for the construction of works for the preservation of the beach.
Page 1272 - No. 105, above mentioned, had a mean low depth over it of but 9J feet. The material composing the bars, as well as the upper stratum of the shoals, beaches, &c., has all the characteristics of a quicksand, being of fine, rounded sand, comminuted shell, and sand and shells mixed. The entrance being greatly exposed to the action of storms, waves and tidal currents, made frequent changes in the shape of the bars and the channels across them, the progressive movement of the inlet and channel toward the...
Page 859 - June 30, 1886, for the works of improvement of rivers and harbors which have been in my charge. In cases where the commercial statistics may not be as full and complete as desirable, it is not for want of effort on my part to have them so.
Page 1185 - ... at the time of the examination. An appropriation of $5,000 was made by the river and harbor act of July 5, 1884, for the improvement of this pass. No project was adopted as the amount was deemed inadequate to an economical prosecution of the work. Authority was therefore obtained to hold this appropriation until one sufficient for economical work has been made. Nothing has therefore been done during the present fiscal year, nor will anything be attempted until further appropriations are made....

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