Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893................ $10, 10. 5, 15. Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project..................... Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix L 6.) 10, 7. Pamlico and Tar River, North Carolina.-(One river, calle Pamlico below and the Tar above Washington.) When the U States began to improve it in 1877 its channel was obstructed i places below Washington by piles; just below Sparta by sc lighters; 1 mile below Tarboro by the wreck of a steamer; im ately below Washington by a bar with a depth of 5 feet at low on its crest in the channel; between Washington and Tarbor available depth was 2 to 3 feet not more than eight months ann and above Washingtion the entire river was more or less obstr by snags, logs, and stumps in its channel and by trees overhan from its banks. The project of 1875 is to secure by dredging and removal of obstructions a clear and safe channel 9 feet deep at low water Washington, and of 1879 to clear a channel 60 feet wide, 3 feet de low water, 22 miles to Greenville, and 20 inches deep at low wat miles farther to Rocky Mount, at a total final estimated cost of $92 To June 30, 1891, $68,793.13 had been expended upon this work At that date there was a channel up to Washington, crooked deiticult to run, with a minimum depth of about 7 feet, from which s stumps needed to be removed, and two troublesome shoals bety Washington and Tarboro, with a depth upon one of only about 1 at low water. The river between Washington and Tarboro was a royals considerably obstructed, and from Tarboro to Rocky M uch obstructed by snags, logs, stumps, and overhanging trees. With the amount applied during the fiscal year ending Jun ber, the channel has been cleared of snags, logs, and stumps, and banks of leaning and overhanging trees from the falls at Rocky M down 64 miles to within 2 miles of Greenville. JUNE 1991 balance unexpended.................. For a) bet amount expended during fiscal year.. 1-INA balance unexpended.. Aww balance available .......... omgucated by act approved July 13, 1892 ... vax aðally rist tscal year ending June 30, 1893 . (Corinated) required for completion of existing project.............. $9,2 6,1 3, 10 2,27 10,00 12.27 42,00 Creed, North Carolina.—When the United States beg in tsst at was badly choked with fallen timber, sna www. also obstructed by sand bars, and navigation r sly dubioult, in many places next to impossible, by t The project of 1881 is to clear it 63 miles to Stantonsburg of overhanging trees and its channel of snags and logs to a depth of not less than 3 feet at the flush-water stages of eight or nine months' annual duration, at an estimated cost of $77,500. To June 30, 1891, $48,701.50 had been expended upon this work. At that date the channel to the depth of 3 feet had been moderately cleared 31 miles up to Snow Hill, and roughly cleared 32 miles farther to Stantonsburg. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, no work has been done, awaiting a period of specially low water for clearing Spring Slough, near the mouth of the creek, of snags and stumps. July 1, 1891, balance unexpended........ June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year. July 1, 1892, balance unexpended.. July 1, 1892, outstanding liabilities. July 1, 1892, balance available..... Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892. Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893.............. (Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project ... ... ... ... Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix L 8.) $3,588.90 1,341.25 2, 247.65 37.10 2,210.55 7,000.00 9,210.55 18,500.00 9. Trent River, North Carolina.-When the United States began to improve it in 1879 the river was comparatively free from obstructions from Newbern, 21 miles, to Pollocksville, between which points a draft of 6 feet could be carried at low water; above Pollocksville it was obstructed by bars of sand and rock, and especially by great numbers of snags in the 14 miles from Quaker Bridge up to Trenton. One steamer ran regularly to Pollocksville and one- occasionally 9 miles farther to Quaker Bridge, above which point navigation was confined. to flat boats and rafts. The project of 1879 was to secure a channel 3 feet deep at low summer stage from Pollocksville to Trenton by removing all obstructions and dredging a cut 50 feet wide through the shoals, at a cost, estimated in 1887, at $59,000. In 1889 the project was extended to remove obstructions to permit navigation by small steamboats 33 miles above Trenton and by pole boats 64 miles farther, to Upper Quaker Bridge, at an additional cost of $13,000, the two projects aggregating $72,000. To June 30, 1891, $53,897.07 had been expended upon this work. At that date the channel had been cleared of snags, etc., and the banks of overhanging trees from the mouth to Trenton, and fairly cleared 7 miles above that point; a channel 3 feet deep at low water and 50 to 75 feet wide had been dredged through the shoals between Pollocksville and Trenton; a turning basin had been dredged and revetted at Trenton, and a channel dredged to the depth of 8 feet and width of 100 feet through Foys Shoal, 6 miles above Newbern. But steamers which the improvement had enabled to make regular trips to Trenton had again been prevented from ascending to it by shoals which had reformed in the 2 or 3 miles immediately below that place. With the amount applied during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, the river has been carefully surveyed from Trenton, 393 miles, to Upper Quaker Bridge, but the funds available have been insufficient for other work. July 1, 1891, balance unexpended... $1. 1. July 1, 1892, balance unexpended..... Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1 Amount (estimated) required for completion Submitted in compliance with requirements harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix L 6.) 7. Pamlico and Tar River, North C Pamlico below and the Tar above 1 States began to improve it in 1877 itplaces below Washington by pileslighters; 1 mile below Tarboro by t ately below Washington by a bar w on its crest in the channel; betw available depth was 2 to 3 feet not and above Washingtion the entir by snags, logs, and stumps in its from its banks. The project of 1875 is to secu obstructions a clear and safe ch Washington, and of 1879 to clea low water, 22 miles to Greenville miles farther to Rocky Mount, a To June 30, 1891, $68,793.131 At that date there was a ch difficult to run, with a minimu stumps needed to be remove Washington and Tarboro, wi at low water. The river bet tervals considerably obstru much obstructed by snags, With the amount applic 1892, the channel has been banks of leaning and over down 64 miles to within 2 July 1, 1891, balance unexpen July 1, 1892, balance unexpe July 1, 1892, balance avail Amount (estimated) Submitted in compli harbor acts of 1860 (See Appendix I 8. Contentnia C to improve it in logs, and stump dered exceeding dense overhang ded in 1878, 1879, 1880, to clear the channel to Sm eees; to contract the chan e entire year an unobstruc ot navigation to Kinst navigation to Smithfield. a been expended upon this work. tion to Newbern, but betw shoals, aggregating 3,150 feet slow water was about 13 feet a was somewhat obstructed trees, and also for 23 miles abo the seal year ending June 30, 18 fet, and banks for 23 miles imm es between Kinston and Newber and overhanging trees, leavi Ser than shoals, in excellent con of existing project. als of sections of river and $14,874. 6,149. 8,724. 23. 8,700 15,000. 23.700.5 91.500.0 rending June 30, 1892, no work has been done, l to the United States being awaited before the ved. xpended expended during fiscal year.. $7,920.60 50.58 nexpended ng liabilities. ce available.......... ited) required for completion of existing project................ ompliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and of 1866 and 1867. ndix L 11.) 7,870.02 1,00 7, 869.02 57,000.00 r at Beaufort, North Carolina.-When its improvement by 1 States (begun in 1836) was resumed in 1881, the erosion of on and of Shackleford Points, and widening of the entrance them caused serious shoaling of the channel on and inside the oss which there was then a mid-channel depth of not less than it at low water. project of 1881, as modified in 1887 and 1891, is to stop the eroof the points by jetties to prevent the shoaling of the channel and Or, and to dredge a channel 100 feet wide and 7 feet deep at mean water from the bulkhead channel in the harbor about 1,800 feet g to the wharves at Beaufort at a cost estimated in 1887 at $163,000. To June 30, 1891, $123,673.34 had been expended upon this work. At that date the erosion of Fort Macon and Shackleford Points had been arrested, and a cut at least 50 feet wide and 5 feet deep at low water had been dredged from the bulkhead channel to the wharves at Beaufort. With the amount applied to the improvement during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, 9,989.22 cubic yards of sand has been dredged, making a cut 714 feet long and 35 to 100 feet wide between the bulkhead channel and the wharves at Beaufort. ENG 92-11 2,974. 10,000. 12,974. 13,000. July 1, 1892, balance available.... Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892 Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893.... Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project..... Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix L 12.) 13. Inland water way between Beaufort Harbor and New River, Nor Carolina. The application of the appropriations has been restricte to the 24 miles in Bogue Sound from Beaufort Harbor to Swansbor because that is the more important part of the.route, and because th other part, 22 miles long, from Swansboro to New River, is provide for by a special appropriation. In 1888, when the United States began to improve the chann through Bogue Sound from Beaufort to Swansboro, there were sever: shoals aggregating upwards of 44 miles in length, over which not mor than 18 inches could be carried at low water; elsewhere the chann was not less than 3 feet deep. The project of 1885 is to dredge a channel 100 feet wide and 3 fee deep at mean low water through the shoals at an estimated cost c $50,000. To June 30, 1891, $19,504.81 had been expended upon this work. At that date a channel 40 to 60 feet wide and 3 to 4 feet deep at lov water had been dredged an aggregate length of 15,529 feet, leavin •2588 fost still in h Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893.. 10, 048. 26 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project....... 10,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix L 13.) |