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12 feet act of June Amount appropriated Amount available July Amount expended Amount required Appendix appropriated by act bank boats bottom breakwater Brigadier-General canal cents channel Chattahoochee River Chief of Engineers Choctawhatchee River commenced completed construction contract Corps of Engineers cost Creek cribs cubic yards depth of water dike distance dredging ending June 30 ENGINEER OFFICE estimate excavation feet long feet of water feet wide fiscal year ending foot gravel harbor improvement inches Island John's River Lake locks mean low water miles Mississippi Mobile Mobile River mouth Muscle Shoals navigation obedient servant obstructions pier piles port portion pounds present proposed protection Railroad removed repairs respectfully riprap river Roanoke River rock Saint Louis Saint Louis River sand season Shoals shore snags steamers stone stream submitted survey timber tion Total United States Army UNITED STATES ENGINEER vessels west pier width
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Seite 442 - ... and located in a part of the bridge that can be safely and conveniently reached at that stage; and that said draw shall be opened promptly, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats...
Seite 161 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers.
Seite 56 - Mexico, to be completed within twenty years; of the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Missouri and the mouth of the Ohio River...
Seite 443 - ... mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the currents at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream...
Seite 443 - ... the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; And until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War...
Seite 547 - Occasionally bluffs and hills extend down to the river, and then the country opens out again, first on one side of the river and then on the other side.
Seite 543 - GENERAL : In compliance with your instructions I have the honor to submit the following report of the...
Seite 29 - ... with a statement showing the amount expended during the fiscal year, and the amount that can be profitably expended during the next fiscal year, is submitted herewith. For more detailed information in regard to the improvements, and for the results of the surveys and examinations ordered by Congress, and not found in...
Seite 263 - There is a light-house exhibiting a fixed white light of the third order, and a beacon on the outer end of the pier showing a fixed white light of the fourth order. The amount of revenue collected at this port during the fiscal year was $1,006,172.60.
Seite 720 - Kiver, at the confluence of the two branches known as the Southern and Eastern. The advantages which the city enjoys as a sea-port are too well known to need more than a passing notice here. Her central position on the Atlantic sea-board; her mild climate, and consequent freedom from obstructions to navigation from ice, and her facilities for communication with a fertile and productive interior, give her natural advantages almost unsurpassed. The harbor proper, (or that portion of the river opposite...