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12 feet adopted Amount estimated amount expended appropriation August 17 basin boats breakwater built CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers Colonel LUDLOW commerce COMMERCIAL STATISTICS committee completion of existing construction contract Creek cubic yards dike distance DOOLITTLE dredged channel dredging ENDICOTT ending June 30 engineer entrance estimated cost excavation existing project expended in fiscal expenditures feet at mean feet deep feet long fiscal year ending freight Government Greytown harbor act improvement increased Island jetty lake Lake Michigan Lake Nicaragua length locks low-water material mean low water MENOCAL miles mouth navigation Nicaragua Canal obstructions Ochoa Dam PATTERSON pier profitably expended proposed railroad removal required for completion river and harbor rock route San Juan River San Pedro San Pedro Bay sand Santa Monica Santa Monica Bay ship shoals shore snags steamers stone stream Suez Canal survey tion tonnage Tons United vessels width
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Сторінка 341 - York, which was in progress at the close of the last fiscal year, was continued until Dec.
Сторінка 37 - Sovereignty has its duties as well as its rights, and none of these local governments, even if administered with more regard to the just demands of other nations than they have been, would be permitted, in a spirit of Eastern isolation, to close these gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world, and justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose to shut them, or, what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust...
Сторінка 174 - Me. The upper part of the river divides into two branches, one called Northern Bay and the other South Bay. Northern Bay near South Penobscot is a shoal sheet of water of about 700 acres area, the bottom of which for the greater part is bare at low tide.
Сторінка 306 - This improvement was begun in 1828, and appropriations aggregating $535,765.50 were made between 1828 and 1852. Between 1841 and 1852 no appropriation was made, and a longer interval elapsed between 1852 and 1872, during which the results of former work were lost. The present improvement commenced in 1872. At...
Сторінка 150 - Harbor, Wisconsin. — Previous to the improvement of this harbor the natural channel was obstructed by a bar covered by but 2 or 3 feet of water. The project of improvement adopted in 1870 provided for the formation of a channel of navigable width and not less than 12 feet deep. This was to be accomplished by the construction of two piers extending from the river month lakeward to the 18-foot contour in Lake Michigan and by dredging between them.
Сторінка 174 - Wharf, which had a depth of less than 2 feet and is obstructed by ledges near Winslows Island. The South Bay is obstructed by ledges at Johnsons Narrows. A project for the improvement of the Northern Bay was adopted in 1890, which has for its object the securing of a channel 100 feet wide andO feet deep at mean low tide from Bridges Point to Bowdens Wharf, at an estimated cost of $45,000.
Сторінка 183 - The approved project adopted in 1880 provides for the widening and deepening of the river so as to secure a channel of at least 12 feet depth at high water, with 100 feet width from its mouth up to Berkley bridge (above Dighton); thence 12 feet depth with 80 feet width (100 feet width at bends) up to Briggs Shoal; thence 11 feet depth with 80 feet width up to the shipyard...
Сторінка 123 - December 21, 1894, has for its object a deep and safe channel into the harbor, making it a harbor of refuge. This object is to be attained by building parallel piers 500 feet apart, projecting into the lake to a depth of 22 feet, and dredging out an 18-foot channel between them, connecting the deep water of...
Сторінка 209 - Canal," in addition to a channel of the last-named dimensions, the width of the stream was to be increased to about 150 feet between its low-water lines. The project was modified on...
Сторінка 317 - As the first expenditure of money on this river was made as early as 1833, it is not an easy matter to determine what was the original condition of the navigable portion of this stream, but from the delta-like...