Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 |
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Page 2511
... Season of navigation . - Opened April 12 , 1910 ; closed December 10 , 1910 . Registered : Steam . Sail and barges . Total .. Vessels . Vessels entered and cleared . No record of unregistered vessels . Decrease of tonnage , 1910 under ...
... Season of navigation . - Opened April 12 , 1910 ; closed December 10 , 1910 . Registered : Steam . Sail and barges . Total .. Vessels . Vessels entered and cleared . No record of unregistered vessels . Decrease of tonnage , 1910 under ...
Page 2514
... season . It having been found that the funds on hand were not sufficient to complete the work as planned , the sum of $ 15,000 was authorized by the river and harbor act of February 27 , 1911 , to be used from other allotments for ...
... season . It having been found that the funds on hand were not sufficient to complete the work as planned , the sum of $ 15,000 was authorized by the river and harbor act of February 27 , 1911 , to be used from other allotments for ...
Page 2519
... season , 2 rock breakers to September 1 and 1 to October 4 , 2 drill boats to September 30 , and 1 to close of season . Operations were resumed April 15 , 1911 , with 1 drill boat and 2 dredges , working to the end of the fiscal year ...
... season , 2 rock breakers to September 1 and 1 to October 4 , 2 drill boats to September 30 , and 1 to close of season . Operations were resumed April 15 , 1911 , with 1 drill boat and 2 dredges , working to the end of the fiscal year ...
Page 2522
... season . Dredging continued until December 17 , 1910 , when the entire plant was laid up for the season . " End of season " survey required by paragraph 55 of specifica- tions was completed January 20 , 1911 , and underpayment during ...
... season . Dredging continued until December 17 , 1910 , when the entire plant was laid up for the season . " End of season " survey required by paragraph 55 of specifica- tions was completed January 20 , 1911 , and underpayment during ...
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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS . Season of navigation . — Calendar year 1910 : Opened , April 12 , 1910 ; closed , Decem- ber 10 , 1910 . Vessels entered and cleared . Registered vessels . Buffalo Creek ...
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS . Season of navigation . — Calendar year 1910 : Opened , April 12 , 1910 ; closed , Decem- ber 10 , 1910 . Vessels entered and cleared . Registered vessels . Buffalo Creek ...
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allotment amount expended appropriated Average balance unexpended bank barge Bend boilers bridge built Cairo Canal cent channel Chief of Engineers Coal Columbia River completed Congress assem construction contract Corps of Engineers cubic yards Date depth dredge ending June 30 feet 6 inches feet b. m. fiscal year ending Ft.in gauge harbor act hereby House of Representa hull Improving harbor Jeffersonville July June 25 June 30 Lake Length levee district linear feet Lock long tons maintenance material mattress Memphis ment miles Minn minutes Mississippi River Commission mouth navigation nineteen hundred Number Ohio Ohio River operations Oreg Park Point pounds pump repairs revetment Revolutions per minute river and harbor Rock Island sand scow season Secretary Secretary of War shoal short tons snag square feet steamer Steel sundry civil survey thousand dollars tion Total United Wood
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Page 3157 - ... correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof ; prevent destructive floods ; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service...
Page 3104 - Agriculture to examine, locate and recommend for purchase such forested, cut-over or denuded lands within the watersheds of navigable streams as in his judgment may be necessary to the regulation of the flow of navigable streams or for the production of timber...
Page 3119 - And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys...
Page 3147 - Missouri, in accordance with the provisions of the act entitled "An act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this act.
Page 3068 - That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 3089 - That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete...
Page 3112 - ... extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters...
Page 3138 - Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness.
Page 3104 - That before any lands are purchased by the National Forest Reservation Commission said lands shall be examined by the Geological Survey and a report made to the Secretary of Agriculture, showing that the control of such lands will promote or protect the navigation of streams on whose watersheds they lie.
Page 3068 - ... project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law...