Statement of extent and net cost of revetment repairs—Continued, Class and extent of work, and quantities of materials, etc. Cost per Cost of each item. Total. Attaching top braces and wales to 473 linear feet of 2-row dike and wales to 90 linear feet shore fence: Labor, loading lumber.. 8,972 feet B. M. yellow pine lumber 317 feet B. M. elm lumber.. 290 screw bolts 438 pounds spikes ..... 80 pounds washers..... Labor, framing and bolting Placing and fastening 34 stay cables: 1,667 feet -inch wire cable.. 750 feet -inch wire strand.. 2 pounds nails.... 6 pounds spikes. Labor Placing screen on 563 linear feet dike and shore fence: unit. Labor, handling poles.. 24.4 cords poles..... 208 pounds nails....... Labor, placing.. ..... Renewing bank ballast for 3,969 square feet of bank at head of bend: 87 cubic yards stone.. Labor Towing plant and material: Hire of towboat.... 32 bushels coal Total BREAK B-C. 1 mooring pile, 191 dike piles, 40 cross fence, and 10 shore fence piles placed by steam hammer: Labor, loading piles. Weaving 105,519 square feet willow mattress: Labor, loading and unloading brush 290.60 Statement of extent and net cost of revetment repairs-Continued. BELMONT BEND-Continued. BREAK B-C-Continued. Class and extent of work, and quantities of materials, etc. Attaching top braces and wales to 1,350 linear feet 2-row dike, and built wale to 165 linear feet shore fence, and 809 linear feet cross fence: Labor, loading lumber... 23,448 feet B. M. yellow pine lumber 1,100 feet -inch wire strand. 857 screw bolts.... 10 driftbolts.. 242 pounds washers. 1,060 pounds spikes.. ... Labor, framing and bolting....... Placing and fastening 90 stay cables: 7,006 feet 4-inch wire cable 9 pounds nails 95 pounds spikes Labor .............. 721.39 8, 600.62 828.02 10.71 20.76 98.73 16.577+ 23.87 .105+ 21.40 023+ 1.49 021+ 3.25 20+ .15 99.96 259.56 54.53 Statement of extent and net cost of revetment repairs-Continued. Moving plant by hand... Moving plant and material, Nebraska City, Nebr., to St. Joseph, Mo. 730.21 47.48 2,024.50 Total.... $8,005.79 30, 396.97 The above total includes $3,888.89 for piling and lumber brought from Nebraska City and Fort Leavenworth. CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL. The pine lumber used for repairs was brought from Nebraska City; also 251 pine piles, both materials having been procured for work at that point which was not constructed. The remainder of the pine piling used was brought from Fort Leavenworth, and consisted of 87 sticks furnished for work at that point which was not constructed, and 101 sticks which had been rejected on account of not having sufficient heartwood, but afterwards purchased at a lower figure than the contract price. The total quantity of stone used was 2,756.9 cubic yards, procured as follows: 1,311 yards delivered in Belmont Bend and 696.5 yards in Bon Ton Bend, at 90 cents and $1 per cubic yard, respectively, both under informal contract; also 241.4 yards and 517 yards from Bon Ton and Belmont Bends, respectively, where it had been stored in 1895. The willow brush used amounted to 2,202 cords. Of this quantity 51 cords were old brush brought from Nebraska City and 2,151 cords procured by day's labor. With the exception of 681 cords barged from Burr Oak Bottom, it was wagoned to the sites of the works. The average cost of the brush, including stumpage, amounted to $1.293 per cord. Two hundred and five cords of screen poles were procured by day's labor at an average cost of $3.68 per cord. One hundred and seventy-two cottonwood piles were procured by day's labor at a cost of 12.6 cents p r linear foot, including stumpage and delivery on barges. The elm lumber used for wales at the minor breaks was purchased in open market at $14.35 per 1,000 feet B. M. TOWBOAT SERVICE. The towboat John R. Hugo was employed for moving plant and towing. The cost of the former service, consisting of moving plant from Nebraska City, Nebr., to St. Joseph, Mo., amounted to $1,108.62, and of the latter to $2,057.71, including fuel. MOVING PLANT. On receiving your oral instructions on July 15 to move the plant lying in ordinary at Nebraska City, Nebr., and the material remaining over from work at that point to St. Joseph, Mo., the master of the towboat John R. Hugo, which was at Omaha, Nebr., was notified to bring the boat to Nebraska City, and other arrangements made for moving down the river. On account of delay in getting a satisfactory boat's crew, the first tow could not be forwarded till July 30. The plant moved consisted of twelve pieces; also horse capstans, skiffs, pontons, rope, and tackle. The material comprised piling, lumber, brush, etc., having an aggregate tonnage of 550 tons. Moving was completed August 18. The cost of the work, including loading material on barges at Nebraska City and unloading at St. Joseph, towboat hire, fuel, etc., amounted to $2,024.50. On November 10 the Hugo left St. Joseph, Mo., for Kansas City with a tow of plant and material for work on the Kaw River. The boat reached St. Joseph on its return trip November 14. On November 19 a second tow was forwarded from St. Joseph, but did not get below Kickapoo, Kans., where it had to tie up on account of a gale. The gale was followed by a blizzard, which culminated in the closing of the river by ice and compelled the laying up for the winter at the above locality of boat and a tow. The cost of moving plant from St. Joseph to Kickapoo and Kansas City, including towboat hire, fuel, and loading and unloading material, amounted to $981.80. ENG 99-232 LEAVENWORTH, kans. I was notified by your letter of October 15, 1898, of the approval of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, of your project for constructing a dike opposite Leavenworth, Kans. The object of the dike, set forth in the project, is to cut off the flow across the accretions formed below Dike 2, constructed in 1895, and impound the water in the old shore channel, now a slough, along the left bank, and by promoting deposit and a growth of willows in it to prevent erosion along the work placed by the Leavenworth Bridge and Terminal Company for the protection of the east bridge approach. The plan of the dike is a two-row pile structure projecting 350 feet beyond the shore bar, with an inshore extension 270 feet long to about standard high water, where it connects with a shale levee forming a part of the bridge company's protection work; the latter part of the work to consist of a screen supported by two rows of braced poles driven through a ballasted mattress 25 feet wide. The location of the dike is shown on Pl. IX. Four hundred and fifty-four and seven-tenths cubic yards stone riprap were furnished under informal contract in November and December, and 186 cords brush and 6 cords poles procured by day's labor in December and January. These materials were delivered on the bank of the river near the shore end of the dike. As the inshore extension of the dike lies across a mud bar over which it would ordinarily be difficult, if not impossible, to weave mattress, that part of the dike work was constructed in December, while the mud was frozen. The structural part of the dike was not constructed in the fall on account of the low stage of water making the dike site inaccessible for the floating plant. KAW RIVER DIKES. For many years prior to 1888 the channel of the Missouri River in the vicinity of Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kans., occupied a bend reaching upstream from the Hannibal and St. Joe Railroad bridge for a distance of about 3 miles. In the above year changes in the reach above the bend caused the formation of a middle ground below the mouth of the Kaw River with a narrow chute between it and the right bank, occupied at low stages by the discharge of the Kaw, while the flow of the Missouri was confined principally to the left-hand chute. In 1889 the National Waterworks Company, of New York, constructed a substantial pile dike across the right-hand chute, ostensibly to protect the company's land and high-service pumping station, then situated immediately below the mouth of the river. The dike appears on Pl. X, marked "N. W. W. Co.'s Dike." As a result of the above-mentioned tendency of the Missouri to change the channel accentuated by the dike, extensive accretions were formed above and below the dike, and the mouth of the Kaw extended into the bed of the Missouri about onefourth mile. This resulted in a diminution of the flat slope of the former stream. The flow of the Kaw is still further impeded by its direction being at right angles to that of the Missouri at their confluence, which increases the natural tendency to bar formation in the mouth of the tributary. As the Kaw River receives the drainage of considerable areas of both Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kans., including the stock yards and several extensive meatpacking establishments, the quantity of sewage carried on the lower reach in proportion to the stream's low-water discharge is quite high. This part of the river, therefore, often becomes offensive when its flow is backed up and impeded by the Missouri. By act of Congress of July 1, 1898, an allotment was made from the appropriation for the improvement of the Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, for work at the mouth of the Kaw to remedy the above unsanitary condition. By your letter of October 12, 1898, I was notified of the approval of your project by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army. It was proposed in the project to concentrate the low-water flow by two low dikes, so as to deepen the channel through the bar at the river's mouth. Steps were at once taken to procure the necessary dike material, and, as soon as the towboat employed on the work under construction in the vicinity of St. Joseph could be spared, a pile driver and barge, with necessary piling, lumber, etc., forwarded. After deepening the water at the sites of the proposed dikes sufficiently to float the driver, by washing with the towboat's wheel, pile driving was proceeded with. This branch of the work occupied from November 14 to 18. Work was then suspended on account of the freezing of the river. It was resumed December 7, between which date and December 14 the dike foot mattress was woven. As at that time the part of the river at the dikes was frozen, the mattress was woven on top of the ice, |