COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Season of navigation.—Calendar year 1910: Opened, April 12, 1910; closed, December 10, 1910. Number of vessels passing International Bridge, Niagara River, 1910. Steamers... 5, 142 1,295 Total...... 6, 437 Season of navigation, April 1, 1910, to January 1, 1911.. OO 6. IMPROVING NIAGARA RIVER, N. Y. [Completing channel across Cayuga Island Shoal, H. Doc. 75, 60th Cong., 1st sess.] REPORT OF OPERATIONS. No work was done on the Niagara River from Tonawanda to Niagara Falls from December, 1900, when funds were exhausted, to June 4, 1911, when preparatory work for completing channel across Cayuga Island Shoal was started, $10,000 having been provided for this work by the river and harbor act of June 25, 1910. A contract was made with the Buffalo Dredging Co., which involves the removal of approximately 9,000 cubic yards, scow measure, of earth and blasted rock to complete the channel to its project width of 200 feet, 12 feet deep, to be completed September 4, 1911. Excavation was started June 26, 1911, with one dredge and at the close of the fiscal year had progressed so as to assure its completion in July, 1911. The funds appropriated by the river and harbor act of June 25, 1910, will complete the project, and as funds for maintenance are not considered necessary, no estimate is made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913. July 13, 1892.. APPROPRIATIONS. Aug. 18, 1894.. June 3, 1896.. Mar. 3, 1899.. June 25, 1910.. Total...... CONTRACT IN FORCE For excavation at Cayuga Island Shoal. Name of contractor: The Buffalo Dredging Co. Rate: Excavating channel, per cubic yard, scow measure, $0.76. Date of approval: May 1, 1911. Date of commencement: June 4, 1911. Date of expiration: September 4, 1911. $20,000 10,000 15,000 15,000 10,000 70,000 COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Season of navigation.—Calendar year 1910: Opened, May 1, 1910; closed, December 10, 1910. The freight business using the channel consists of raw materials carried on canal boats of 6 to 8 feet draft, towed by tugs from the Erie Canal at Tonawanda to Schlosser's Dock. The passenger business consists of excursions from Buffalo on steamers of 6 to 8 feet draft, usually accompanied by a picnic barge of 2 to 4 feet draft towed alongside. During the season of about four months, June to September, from one to five of these vessels daily carry parties down the American channel, around the foot of Grand Island and return to Buffalo by the Canadian channel; occasionally a party is landed at Schlosser's Dock. Passengers carried in 1910, 98,627. The collector of customs reports no arrivals or departures of vesels at Schlosser's Dock, Niagara Falls, for the calendar year 1910. The principal commerce of the port is the receipt of pulp wood for the paper mills of Niagara Falls. This pulp wood comes partly from American ports and partly from Canadian ports on the Great Lakes. It is brought down the Canadian channel on lake vessels to the foot of Grand Island, where it is made into sack rafts and towed across the main channel to Schlosser's Dock. Here the rafts are opened, and the sticks floated through a runway down the river past Gill Creek into a boom, from which they are conveyed to the paper mills by an endless-chain carrier. The following statistics relate to this pulp-wood traffic: APPENDIX P P. IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS IN THE OSWEGO, N. Y., DISTRICT. REPORT OF CAPT. W. L. GUTHRIE, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, OFFICER IN CHARGE, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1911. 1. Olcott Harbor, N. Y. 2. Harbor at Charlotte, N. Y. 3. Harbor at Pultneyville, N. Y. IMPROVEMENTS. 4. Harbor at Great Sodus Bay, N. Y. 5. Harbor at Little Sodus Bay, N. Y. 7. Harbor at Cape Vincent, N. Y. UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, SIR: I have the honor to forward herewith annual reports of river and harbor works in this district for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911. Very respectfully, W. L. GUTHRIE, Captain, Corps of Engineers. The CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY. PP 1. IMPROVEMENT OF OLCOTT HARBOR, N. Y. REPORT OF OPERATIONS. No work was done during the fiscal year. The piers are badly decayed, and the channel is not stable. The sum of $1,500 was allotted June 8, 1911, from the emergency appropriation provided by the river and harbor act of March 3, 1905. With this money it is proposed to repair the superstructure of both east and west piers where most necessary. No estimate of funds is made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913. APPROPRIATIONS. To June 30, 1902, as per H. Doc. 421, 57th Cong., 2d sess... $178, 000. 00 1,500.00 179,500.00 PP 2. IMPROVEMENT OF HARBOR AT CHARLOTTE, N. Y. REPORT OF OPERATIONS. Dredging to restore the channel between the piers to the width and depth of the project of March 2, 1897, was completed July 31, 1910. This work was begun March 28, 1910. There were removed 9,850 cubic yards, scow measure, of sand, silt etc., at a cost of 11.6 cents per cubic yard, giving a channel between the piers with a depth of 16 feet at low water, with a channel width of 150 feet. The cost includes all operating expenses and repairs, but nothing for depreciation. In April, 1911, a survey of the channel was made, when it was found that filling had occurred so that the limiting depth was 15 feet. Specifications were prepared for the excavation of 160,000 cubic yards, scow measurement, under the project of June 25, 1910, and the work advertised. Bids were opened May 15, 1911. Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, for maintenance of improvement. 2 $33,158.49 COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Season of navigation.—Year 1910: Opened, January 1, 1910; closed, December 31, Registered: Total.. Classes. 1910. 1 Of this appropriation $1,269.07 was returned to the Treasury. |