Character: Hire of launch Walter. Price: $300 per month. Approved: July 7, 1915. Date of beginning: July 10, 1915. Date of expiration: July 9, 1916, or when dredging is completed. Name of contractor: Giebisch & Joplin, Portland, Oreg. Date of contract: January 5, 1914. Character: Constructing north jetty at entrance to Tillamook Bay, Oreg. Approximate quantities (in place) with prices: 100,000 linear feet of piles, at 20 cents per linear foot. 500,000 feet b. m. of lumber, at $18 per thousand feet b. m. 850 pairs of fishplates, complete with bolts, at $1 per pair. 84 tons of old rails relaid, at $1.50 per ton of 2,000 pounds. 1,000 pounds of bolts, with head, nuts and washers, at 5 cents per pound. 10 frogs and switches, complete, including guardrails, at $100 each. 1 only special crossing, complete, $150. Approved: January 13, 1914. Date of beginning: March 21, 1914. Date of expiration: May 21, 1916 (28 months). (Time limit waived for reasonable period.) Completed at end of fiscal year: 59 per cent. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Season of navigation, year 1915: Opened January 1; closed December 31. Arrivals and clearances irrespective of number of vessels. No passengers. Average haul of freight, 180 miles; average haul on portion under improvement, 12 miles. 7. NEHALEM BAY, OREG. The south jetty was finished on December 31, 1915. During the year 495 feet of tramway was constructed and 68,655 tons of rock was placed in the enrockment. The rock was furnished by the Miami Quarry Co., under contract dated November 6, 1913. Since completion the enrockment for a distance of 150 feet from the outer end of the jetty has subsided to low-tide level. The remainder of the enrockment, which was built up to high-tide level, has not appreciably subsided. Expended for this work, $135,302.27. On each side of the bay a 40 by 80 foot wharf, equipped with a derrick, was constructed. Under date of April 11, 1915, a contract was entered into with Robert Wakefield, of Portland, Oreg., for furnishing 100,000 short tons of rock for the north jetty. After the completion of the south jetty the Government plant was transferred to the north side of the bay, and water supply, etc., was installed for the construction of the north jetty. By the close of the year 675 feet (to bent No. 45) of the pile tramway approach from the north receiving wharf to the shore end of the north jetty had been constructed. The contractor has opened a quarry of heavy igneous rock on the south fork of the Nehalem River, 17 miles from the jetty, and proposes to transport the stone on flat cars over the Southern Pacific Railroad to a wharf on the south side of bay and transfer across the bay on scows, making delivery on the Government cars on the north side of the bay. Expended for work on north jetty, $15,031.38. The completion of the south jetty has fixed the channel across the bar, and the survey of June 30, 1916, shows a least depth of 12 feet at mean lower low water across the bar in a well-defined channel about 200 feet in width. Report on preliminary examination of Nehalem Bay and Nehalem River, Oreg., from the entrance of Nehalem Bay to the city of Nehalem, with a view to the improvement of the same in cooperation with local interests, was submitted August 30, 1915, and resulted in allotment of $1,100 for a survey. This survey was completed December 9, 1915, and report and estimate thereon is expected to be submitted at an early date. CONTRIBUTED FUNDS. Contributed by local interests and guaranteed by tripartite agreement with the port of Nehalem, dated Apr. 29, 1913 (including $82,000 credited for useful work performed). Total of United States and contributed funds.. CONTRACTS IN FORCE. 316, 175.00 633, 035. 68 Name of lessor: Pacific Railway & Navigation Co. Date of lease: December 22, 1914. Character: Rent of portion of permanent right of way at Brighton, Oreg. Authorized : April 14, 1914. Date of beginning: February 1, 1914. Date of completion: January 31, 1918. Name of contractor : The Miami Quarry Co., of Portland, Oreg. Date of contract: November 6, 1913. Character : Furnishing 215,000 tons of stone for jetty construction at mouth of Nehalem River, Oreg. Price: $1.36 per ton of 2,000 pounds, f. o. b. jetty sidetrack. Approved: November 19, 1913. Date of beginning: February 2, 1914. Date of expiration: November 1, 1917 (32 months after notification). Completed at end of fiscal year: 100 per cent. Name of lessor: The Wright-Blodgett Co. (Ltd.), Portland, Oreg. Date of lease: December 1, 1913. Character: 14.85 acres of land at mouth of Nehalem River, Oreg. Approved: June 24, 1915. Date of beginning: November 1, 1915. Date of expiration: October 31, 1916. Name of contractor : Robert Wakefield. Date of contract: April 11, 1916. Character: Furnishing 100,000 short tons of stone for Jetty construction at shore end of north jetty. Price: $1.34 per ton of 2,000 pounds, f. o. b. shore end of north jetty. Date of beginning: July 10, 1916. Date of expiration: November 10, 1917. Completed at end of fiscal year: None. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Season of navigation, year 1915: Opened January 1; closed December 31. There was no traffic over the bar during the year; the foregoing is the commerce on the river only. Furnished by port of Nehalem. No vessel classification available. |