The Crosby Transportation Co. did not operate a small steamer between Grand Haven and Saugatuck during 1915. The Goodrich Transit Co. operates a regular line of steamers between Grand Haven, Muskegon, and Chicago during the navigation season; a winter schedule is maintained to Grand Haven and a partial winter schedule, when ice conditions permit, to Muskegon. All freight values are assumed and only approximate. Average haul or distance freight was carried and rate per ton-mile not known. 4,674 934, 800 30,071 3,392 20,352 2,331 6,760 3,859 578, 850 8,009 520, 585 9,810 353, 160 4,734 2,164 1,775 591 15, 084 2,831 41,334 7,592 18, 438 1,249 3,871 6,069 12,359 3,302 157, 113 184,535 79, 322 263,857 1,893, 600 541,000 47,925 23, 640 165, 924 84, 930 2,066, 700 759, 200 68, 695 5,806 576, 555 330, 200 12, 402, 453 921, 900 2,471, 800 Dredging by the orange-peel bucket dredge Saginaw, which was in progress at the close of the preceding fiscal year, was continued from July 1, to September 7, 1915. The dredged cuts were 8 feet deep below low water of 1889 and 70 feet wide, except on the Rice Bar, which was 60 feet wide. The County House Bar, mile 21.5 (mile 0 is at Grand Rapids), was dredged for a length of 1,810 feet, removing 13,380 cubic yards and 19 snags; Castle Creek Bar, mile 22, for a length of 220 feet, removing 600 cubic yards and 7 snags; Rice Bar, mile 22.7, was swept for snags and dredged where needed for a length of 2,740 feet, removing 7,004 cubic yards and 85 snags; Molyneux Bar, mile 23.5 to 24.2, was swept for snags and dredged where needed for a length of 3,800 feet, removing 8,776 cubic yards and 42 snags. The dredge was then moved to mile 31.2, near the head of Indian Bayou, and the channel swept for snags, and small shoals dredged, for a width of 100 feet for a distance of 1,500 feet to the mouth of Stearns Bayou, also for a width of 70 feet and length of 400 feet at mile 32.4, near the mouth of Pottawattomie Bayou; a total of 530 cubic yards were dredged and 8 snags removed. This completed the work proposed for the season, making a total, since July 1, of 30,290 cubic yards, place measurement, and 159 snags removed. The expenditures for this work were $2,110.23. July 3-17, 1915, soundings to determine where dredging was needed, were made from Eastmanville to the County House Bar, a distance of about a mile; from about mile 22 to 24, and mile 31 to 32.5. The cost of this survey was $180.73. The sum of $2,329.15 was expended for care and repair of United States plant and property. The lands at Grand Haven Harbor, obtained by condemnation from the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., were paid for at a cost of $2,022.15. All of the above work was for maintenance. APPROPRIATIONS. Previous projects (see H. Doc. No. 1491, 63d Cong., 3d sess., p. 458) $325,000. 00 Existing project: $100, 000. 00 88, 000, 00 4, 200.00 5, 800.00 198,000.00 523, 000. 00 10, 346. 89 533, 346. 89 Amount in customary Amount in Value. short tons. 792 bags.. 4,000 dozen.. 200 dozen.. 168,937 packages. 35,000 cubic yards. 401 M feet... 2,100 pounds.. 1 6,400 pounds.. 3 500 1,280 Increase over 1914, 5,588 tons, accounted for entirely by the increased amount of gravel carried downstream from the gravel pits on the river. 59091°-ENG 1916-192 The side-wheel steamer May Graham of 91 tons, net tonnage, plying between Grand Haven and Lamont, a distance of 21 miles, made 129 round trips during season of 1915, carrying 998 tons of freight and 2,325 passengers downstream. and 140 tons of freight and 2,184 passengers upstream. The gravel on the lower 16 miles of the river was carried on scows towed by tugs, all of 6-foot loaded draft. 7. MUSKEGON HARBOR, MICH. The Meade was employed August 9, 1915, and January 29-30 and April 7-8, 1916, and removed 13,557 cubic yards from the entrance bar in Lake Michigan. The expenditures for the Meade were $2,563.15. The dredge Saginaw, assisted by tug Gillmore, was employed from September 15 to November 3, 1915, and June 3-30, 1916, excavating material from near mid-channel and depositing it against the channel face of the sheet-pile revetments to strengthen same, being a continuation of the work done in the fall of 1913. The protection extended along the north revetment for a distance of 145 feet opposite the west end of the old car-ferry slip; along the south revetment for a distance of 1,190 feet between the Coast Guard station and the carferry slip, and for a distance of 425 feet near the inner end; also for a short distance in front of the Coast Guard station, a total distance of 1,760 feet. The depth below low water along the channel face of the revetments varied from 14 feet to 18.5 feet before dredging, and was about 8 feet after dredging. The expenditures charged to this work were $2,910.57. Soundings of April 24-26, 1916, showed available depths below low water of 20.5 feet on the entrance bar in Lake Michigan, and 18.5 feet in the channel between the piers. These soundings showed an average depth below low water of 11 feet along the revetments where the depths, prior to the work of the Saginaw in 1913 and 1915, averaged about 17 feet. The sum of $400 was expended toward the purchase of the U. S. survey and inspection steamer Hancock from the United States Lake Survey Office, and $1,201.66 was expended for its maintenance and operation. The sum of $1,960.10 was expended for care and repair of other United States plant and property. All the above work is charged to maintenance. APPROPRIATIONS. Previous projects (see H. Doc. No. 1491, 63d Cong., 3d sess., p. 501) Existing project: $529, 500.00 CONTRACTS IN FORCE. COAL. Contractor: Home Fuel Co. Description of coal: Moisture in coal "as received," 2; percentage of ash in "dry coal," 5.91; percentage of volatile matter in 'dry coal," 35; percentage of sulphur in "dry coal," 0.80; British thermal units per pound of "dry coal," 14,300. Rates: Smithers Creek, $3.05 per ton. Contractor: Home Fuel Co. Date of contract: March 28, 1916. Date of expiration: March 31, 1917. Description of coal: Moisture in coal "as received," 1.90; percentage of ash in "dry coal," 5.50; percentage of volatile matter in "dry coal," 37.37; percentage of sulphur in "dry coal," 0.85; British thermal units per pound of "dry coal," 14,400. Rates: Smithers Creek, $3.08 per ton. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Season of navigation calendar year 1915: Opened January 1; closed December 31. Percentage of tonnage carried by the various drafts of vessels unknown. 51 2 Percentage of total freight carried. 32 68 |