from its mouth up to Albany; a completed low-water channel of the projected depth from its mouth up to Mingo's Island, about 113 miles below Albany, also a partially completed high-water channel over that portion of the river between Albany and Montezuma. The amount available and the appropriation asked for are to be applied to continuing the removal of obstructions from the channel of the river. July 1, 1886, amount available Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886 $2,109.89 20,000.00 22, 109. 89 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of $8, 166. 37 9, 706.61 12, 403.28 July 1, 1887, amount available...... Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... (See Appendix P 10.) 83,000.00 40,000.00 11. Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama.-A plan was adopted in 1875 to provide a channel, not less than 80 feet wide and 3 feet deep at low water, between Rome and Greensport, ane the improvement of the shoals and reefs below Greensport, by channel excavation and locks and dams. The expenditure up to June 30, 1887, of $439,700.48 has resulted in securing a fair navigable channel from Rome, Ga., to Greensport, Ala., and has nearly completed the work of improvement to Broken Arrow Shoals. During the past fiscal year, with the limited appropriation available, the work of quarrying and dressing stone for the locks and dams at Ten Island Shoals was continued, and material accumulated for the dam at Lock 4. It is recommended that the appropriation asked for be made availa'ble, by suitable legislation, for the purchase of land required for the site of Lock 4; otherwise unnecessary delay will be incurred in the prosecution of the work. The funds available and the appropriation asked for can be profitably expended in continuing the construction of locks and dams below Greensport and the removal of obstructions from the river channel. July 1, 1886, amount available..... Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886 $303.91 45,000.00 July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886. 45,803, 94 $20,904. 45 899.97 21, 804.42 July 1, 1887, amount available.... 23,999.52 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project 97,000.00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30,1889. $7,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 (See Appendix P 11.) 12. Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama.—The present plan of improvement (adopted in 1873) contemplates a low-water channel, 4 feet in depth and 100 feet in width, from Columbus, Ga., to Chattahoochee, Fla., a distance of 232 miles, by the removal of snags and other obstructions from the channel, overhanging trees from the banks, by cutting a channel through the rock shoals and deepening sand-bars by scour. The expenditure up to the present time of $206,514.30 has resulted in securing a fair navigable channel between Chattahoochee and Eufaula at all seasons of the year, and between Eufaula and Columbus at all times except during the prevalence of extreme low water. At Uchee Shoals 3,007 cubic yards of marl and other obstructions were removed from the river. The amount available and the appropriation asked for are to be applied to continuing the removal of obstructions from the river channel. July 1, 1886, amount available...... Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886. $14, 161. 57 20,000.00 34, 161.57 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886 July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities... $16, 613.94 17, 656.90 16,504.67 July 1, 1887, amount available...... Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... (See Appendix P 12.) 13. Tallapoosa River, Alabama.-The plan of improvement adopted pursuant to an examination and partial survey of this river, made by an act of Congress approved June 14, 1880, contemplates obtaining a navigable channel from the mouth of the river to the foot of Tallassee Reefs, 2 miles below the town of Tallassee, a distance of 48 miles, with a least depth of 3 feet and width of 60 feet at low water. This is to be accomplished by the removal of snags, logs, etc., from the channel; cutting overhanging trees from the banks; cutting the prescribed channel through the rock-reefs, and the removal of bars by works of contraction. The expenditure up to June 30, 1887, of $27,089.33 has resulted in clearing out the principal obstructions from the river channel so as to admit of navigation at a moderate stage of water for a distance of 40 miles from the mouth of the river. The amount available and the appropriation asked for are to be ap. plied to continuing the work of improving the river in accordance with the approved plan; removing obstructions from the channel, blasting through rock reefs, and deepening the channel over movable bars by works of contraction. July 1, 1886, amount available Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886 July 1. 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of $1,576.54 7,500.00 9,076. 54 liabilities oustanding July 1, 1886.. July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities July 1, 1887, amount available $3,071.74 576.13 3,647.87 5,428.67 $15,000.00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... (See Appendix P 13.) 14. Cahawba River, Alabama.-The plan of improvement, adopted in 1883, contemplates a channel 60 feet in width and 3 feet in depth at low water from its mouth to the town of Centreville, a distance of 88 miles, by the removal of all obstructions from the channels, cutting through rock reefs, scouring bars, and cutting overhanging trees. The expenditure up to June 30, 1887, of $29,698.15 has resulted in the partial improvement of the river from its mouth to Centreville, adapting it to high-water navigation. This is within a distance of 21 miles of Cane Creek, which is near the Cahawba coal-fields. For this section of the river lock and dam navigation is proposed. During the past fiscal year no work was done. The river and harbor act approved August 5, 1886, contained an appropriation of $7,500 for the Cahawba, but with the proviso "that no part of said sum shall be expended until the officer in charge shall have, reported that the railroad and other bridges across said river have been provided with good and sufficient draw openings." These bridges continue to obstruct the navigation of the river, and the appropriation remains unexpended. Appropriation is asked for the next fiscal year, with such legislation as will remove the present obstructions to navigation. July 1, 1886, amount available Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886.. July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886 July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities... July 1, 1887, amount available..... $1,010. 21 7,500.00 8, 510.21 $639.50 708, 36 7,801.85 157,000.00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... (See Appendix P 14.) 15. Alabama River, Alabama.-The plan of improvement for the Alabama River, adopted in 1876, contemplates a channel 200 feet in width and 4 feet in depth at low-water, from its mouth, 50 miles above Mobile, Ala., to Wetumpka, Ala., a distance of 323 miles. Before the improvement was commenced, the channel had a least depth of about 2 feet on some of the shoals, and was badly obstructed by snags and overhanging trees. The expenditure up to June 30, 1887, of $134,908.43, has resulted in rendering that part of the river below Montgomery, Ala., easy of navigation during ordinary low water. The amount available and the appropriation asked for are to be applied to continuing the work of improvement in accordance with the adopted plan, and maintaining the work already done. July 1, 1886, amount available.... Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive July 1, 1887, amount available...... $285.88 15,000.00 15, 285.88 $4,762.66 5, 194. 31 10,091.57 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. (See Appendix P 15.) 84, 741.00 40,000.00 EXAMINATIONS AND SURVEYS FOR IMPROVEMENT, TO COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENTS OF THE RIVER AND HARBOR ACT OF August 5, 1886. The required preliminary examinations of the following localities were made by the local engineer in charge, Captain Hoxie, and reported by him as not worthy of improvement at present by reason of the obstruction of the stream by bridges: 1. Flint River, Georgia, from Montezuma to Old Agency.-(See Appendix P 16.) And it appearing, after preliminary examination, that the locality was worthy of improvement, he was charged with the survey of the following, the results of which will be duly submitted when received: 1. Outer and inner bars at Pensacola Harbor, Florida. IMPROVEMENT OF THE HARBOR OF MOBILE; OF WARRIOR, TOMBIGBEE, AND BLACK WARRIOR RIVERS, ALABAMA, AND OF CERTAIN RIVERS IN MISSISSIPPI-IMPROVEMENT OF CHANNEL TO BILOXI BAY. Officer in charge, Maj. A. N. Damrell, Corps of Engineers. 1. Mobile Harbor, Alabama.-The present project for the improvement of this harbor was adopted in March, 1880, the object being to afford a channel of entrance from the Gulf of Mexico to the city of Mobile of 200 feet width and not less than 17 feet depth at mean lowwater. The channel before was 200 feet wide through Choctaw Pass Bar, with not more than 13 feet at the shoalest part, and was obtained by dredging under previous appropriations, from 1870 to 1878, inclusive, amounting to $401,000. The amount expended to June 30, 1886, is $659,087.22, and resulted in obtaining a channel with a minimum width of 140 feet and a maximum width of 300 feet, a minimum depth of 173 feet and a maximum depth of 23 feet, from the 17-foot curve in Mobile River to the curve of same depth in the lower bay, a distance of 25.95 miles. The amount expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, is $88,473.88, and has resulted in widening to 185 feet that portion of the channel which last year had the minimum width of 140 feet for a distance of 10.94 miles, and in'deepening and widening the turn on Fowl River Shoals sufficiently to relieve the trouble formerly experienced by vessels at that point. Length of this cut, 1,750 feet; maximum width, 315 feet. There has been considerable filling-in in the dredged cut, principally below the Fowl River Shoals. The amount available and the appropriation asked for is to be applied to widening the channel to 200 feet; to redredging the portion of the channel which has filled so as to reduce the depth to less than 17 feet, and to widening the bottom width of the cut as far as the amount appropriated will allow. July 1, 1886, amount available Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886. July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886..... July 1, 1887, amount available.... $912. 78 90,000.00 90, 912. 78 88, 473. 88 2,438.90 150, 000. 00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... (See Appendix Q 1.) 2. Black Warrior River, from Tuscaloosa to Daniel's Creek, Alabama.— The present project for the improvement of this section of the river was adopted in 1886, the object being to afford a water-way for the transportation of coal in barges from the Warrior Coal Fields to the Gulf of Mexico. The present natural channel is only navigable during very high water, and is even then extremely dangerous. The amount expended to June 30, 1886, was $3,897.96 and resulted in completion of a survey for preparation of plans and estimates for doing the work. The amount of $1,252.06 was expended during fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, and resulted in final adoption of plans and in commencing survey for purchase of land for lock-sites, etc. July 1, 1886, amount available.. Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886.. July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886 July 1, 1887, amount available Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project (subject to revision) $46, 102. 04 56, 250.00 102, 352. 04 1,252.06 101,099.98 463, 854.00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30,1889 200,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix Q 2.) 3. Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama and Mississippi.-a. Warrior River, Alabama.-The present project for the improvement of this river was adopted in 1875, the object being to obtain a channel 4 feet deep and 80 feet wide at ordinary low water from its junction with the Tombigbee up to Tuscaloosa. The channel at that time was not navigable at low water and was much obstructed at a medium stage. The amount expended to June 30, 1886, was about $97,123 41 (exact figures cannot be given for the years 1875-1882, inclusive; the appro priation was made for the Warrior and Tombigbee rivers jointly, with |