Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 |
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Page 2557
... survey to determine the extent of deterioration of the dredged channel through Pinole Shoal and its vicinity . The survey showed a total obliteration of this channel , but there is an available depth generally of about 2 feet more over ...
... survey to determine the extent of deterioration of the dredged channel through Pinole Shoal and its vicinity . The survey showed a total obliteration of this channel , but there is an available depth generally of about 2 feet more over ...
Page 2559
... survey that it would require the removal of about 90,000 cubic yards additional to extend this channel 75 feet wide and 4 feet deep at low water up Mormon Slough to Miller's ware- house , a distance of 4,500 feet . This work was done ...
... survey that it would require the removal of about 90,000 cubic yards additional to extend this channel 75 feet wide and 4 feet deep at low water up Mormon Slough to Miller's ware- house , a distance of 4,500 feet . This work was done ...
Page 2567
... survey of the jetty channel was made to deter- mine its present condition and for use as a basis to ascertain definitely the progressive effect thereon of the rebuilt jetties . This survey was completed in April , 1911 , at a total cost ...
... survey of the jetty channel was made to deter- mine its present condition and for use as a basis to ascertain definitely the progressive effect thereon of the rebuilt jetties . This survey was completed in April , 1911 , at a total cost ...
Page 2579
... survey , a new survey of the hydrography of the upper part of the bay from the C. A. Šmith mill to a point below Pony Slough , as a guide to future work , is being made and will be finished at an early date . Progress has been made on ...
... survey , a new survey of the hydrography of the upper part of the bay from the C. A. Šmith mill to a point below Pony Slough , as a guide to future work , is being made and will be finished at an early date . Progress has been made on ...
Page 2597
... survey was made from the railroad bridge at Van- couver to the mouth of the Willamette River . This survey showed very little change from the previous year . The shoal abreast Hayden Island carried about the same depth of water , and ...
... survey was made from the railroad bridge at Van- couver to the mouth of the Willamette River . This survey showed very little change from the previous year . The shoal abreast Hayden Island carried about the same depth of water , and ...
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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...