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Amount appropriated by act of August 11, 1888.

July 1, 1889, balance available.....

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project

$1,000.00

1,000.00

10,000.00

Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1891 10,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and

harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M M 7.)

8. Black River Harbor, Ohio.-The present project for the improvement of this harbor provides for parallel piers 200 feet apart, running out to a depth of 16 feet in the lake.

Up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, and since 1826, there had been appropriated the sum of $220,138.73, all of which bas been expended or pledged under contract, and with which a channel with least depth of 16 feet has been obtained where originally there was but 3 feet at the entrance.

The act of August 11, 1888, appropriated $10,000 for this harbor. The extension of pier and repairs to piers under contract were begun in April, 1889, and were completed by the end of June, 1889, and appropriation exhausted. The piers need considerable renewal of superstructure.

Only one-third of the proposed extension of the piers has been accomplished. This is the most important work, and should be completed as soon as funds sufficient are available.

The unexpected and extra repairs made and to be made at this harbor will increase the estimate for same, and the renewal and prolonging of the piers will cost at least $12,000, so that the sum of $20,000 is still needed to complete the existing project.

Amount appropriated by act of August 11, 1888.

July 1, 1889, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of

liabilities outstanding July 1, 1888..

July 1, 1889, outstanding liabilities.

July 1, 1889, amount covered by existing contracts..

July 1, 1889, balance available ....

$10,000.00

$5, 001.84
837.77
3,398.86

9, 238.47

761.53

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project

10,000.00

Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1891 20,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and

harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M M 8.)

9. Cleveland Harbor, Ohio. -The original project for the improvement of the mouth of Cuyahoga River was adopted in 1825, and has been amended from time to time to gain increased depth. It consists of parallel piers about 200 feet apart running out to a depth of 16 feet in the lake.

When operations were commenced there was a long, low sand-bar where the river now empties into the lake, and the entrance was through a narrow, intricate channel with a depth of about 3 feet.

At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, there had been expended about $371,000, and there was, as a result, a good wide channel at the entrance of the harbor with a depth of from 14 to 18 feet between the railroad bridge at the inner end of the piers and the lake, with a pile protection work 620 feet long at the inner end of the west pier constructed in 1882.

Harbor of refuge. The original project provided for an outer breakwater starting from the lake shore about 700 feet west of the upper end of the old river bed.

The west breakwater runs out about due north a distance of 3,130 feet to a depth of 28 feet, and thence for 4,030 feet it runs nearly parallel to the shore, with a spur 100 feet long on the north side of the lake arm, 200 feet from its eastern end, in a depth of from 28 to 30 feet. It was originally proposed to protect the entrance to the harbor on the east side by extending the east pier at the mouth of the river 1,400 feet.

Amended projects changed this plan and now provide for a breakwater on the east side, which begins at a point on the prolongation of the arm of the west breakwater and 500 feet from it, extends eastward on the line about 3,500 feet, then inclines towards the shore in a depth of 26 feet of water and extends 2,000 feet, having an entrance 2,300 feet wide between the eastern end and the curve of 14 feet depth of water, or about 2,200 feet from shore.

For the expenditure of the appropriation of August 11, 1888, contracts were made for the construction of about 600 linear feet of the east breakwater. Operations were commenced in March, 1889, and were continued, when weather permitted, until end of this fiscal year. By that date the 600 feet of east breakwater was about one-half finished and will be completed to extent of available funds by October 30, 1889. The amount expended during the fiscal year was $58,571.25.

At the close of the fiscal year 1889 a total of about $1,000,585.50 had been expended and 8,310 linear feet of breakwater had been finished, which completes the west breakwater and over 1,150 linear feet of the east breakwater, leaving to be built to complete the harbor of refuge about 4,400 linear feet of east breakwater.

The total amount appropriated for the harbor of refuge to July 1, 1889, is $1,093,750, of which sum $1,036,085.50, exclusive of outstand ing liabilities, has been expended, less about $37,000 applied to repairs to piers, dredging, etc., for Cleveland Harbor proper.

Amount appropriated by act of August 11, 1888

July 1, 1880, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of

liabilities outstanding July 1, 1888.

July 1, 1889, outstanding liabilities...

July 1, 1889, amount covered by existing contracts...

July 1, 1889, balance available......

$100,000.00

$42, 335.50

1, 792. 44

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Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project
Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1891
Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and
harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M M 9.)

519,250.00 200, 000. 00

10. Fairport Harbor, Ohio.-The present project for the improvement of this harbor consists of parallel piers, 200 feet apart, running into the lake. It was adopted in 1825, and has been modified by prolonging the piers from time to time, so as to give increased depth, the object now being to afford a channel of navigable width and not less than 16 feet in depth.

When the work was commenced in 1826 the mouth of the river was closed by a sand-bar 1,200 feet wide, at times so hard and dry that teams could cross over it.

At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, there was a fair channel between the piers with a least depth of 16 feet at low water, and in lake beyond end of piers with a least depth of 15 feet at ordinary level of the lake, but not for full width needed.

During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, contracts were made and work commenced for necessary repairs to piers and for extension of the

west pier 80 linear feet. An agreement was made in the fall of 1888 for a small amount of dredging in the channel and a contract for dredg ing was entered into also with Q. Gillmore. Under these two agreements the channel was put in fair condition, and by May 15, 1889, it was restored to its required depth, but not to full width.

Extensive improvements as to docks and yards for receiving cargoes of iron ore and shipping coal have been made at Fairport Harbor by Pittsburgh capitalists. These improvements were continued during the fall of 1888, and it is expected that they will be further extended this season and the business of this harbor still further increased thereby. Amount appropriated by act of August 11, 1888

July 1, 1889, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1888

July 1, 1889, amount covered by existing contracts..

July 1, 1889, balance available

$2,659.35
6,200.00

(Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1891 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M M 10.)

$10,000.00

8,859.35

1, 140. 65

21,250.00 21, 300.00

11. Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio.-The original project for the improvement of this harbor was adopted in 1826. Rock bottom was then found at 9 feet below the surface, and there was a depth of only 2 feet of water over bar at the entrance to harbor.

The present project contemplates the extension of the piers out to 16 feet depth of water, the removal of the decayed portions of both piers, and rebuilding with new material, also rock excavation and dredging to give channel of 160 feet width and full depth.

During the fiscal year 1889 the previous condition of the channel was restored by the removal of 2, 414 cubic yards of soft material by contract.

At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, there was a good wide channel 15 to 16 feet deep from the lake into the harbor.

A contract was made during fiscal year for the excavation of rock from bar in lake and from channel between the piers to the extent of available funds.

The excavation was commenced and all the work required under the contract should be completed by end of August, 1889.

The channel through the outer bar is being excavated to 18 feet depth and full width. The channel between the piers is being excavated to 17 feet depth and of such width as the available funds will permit, viz., 80 feet, all in rock bottom. A contract was also made with B. S. Horton for the extension of the east pier 120 feet and repairs to piers, work to be completed August 31, 1889.

There has been appropriated for this harbor up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, $427,401,21, of which 8404,203,97 has been expended and balance all pledged under existing contracts.

Amount appropriated by act of August 11, 1888..

July, 1, 1889, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of

$25,000.00

liabilities outstanding July 1, 1888

$1,802. 76

July 1, 1859, outstanding liabilities

July 1, 1889, amount covered by existing contracts

4,660,00 17,358.00

23,820.76

July 1, 1889, balance available

1, 179. 24

(Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1891 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M M 11.)

$25, 250.00

25, 300.00

12. Removing sunken vessels or craft obstructing or endangering navigation.-In November, 1887, schooner Joy with cargo of iron ore was sunk near channel about 350 feet from lake end of east pier at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio. The bids received, after advertisement, for its removal, being too high were rejected. Buoys have been placed to mark the position of the wreck.

During the summer it is proposed, it no favorable offer is received for removing what remains of the wreck, to explode dynamite cartridges under her and blow to pieces the timbers forming the wreck.

(See Appendix M M 12.)

EXAMINATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT, TO COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENTS OF THE RIVER AND HARBOR ACT OF AUGUST 11, 1888. The required preliminary examinations of the following localities were made by the local engineer in charge, Major Overman, and reported by him as not worthy of improvement, with facts and reasons for such opinion. The Chief of Engineers concurring in the conclusions reached in these instances, has given no instructions to make further survey with the view to their improvement.

1. Cowles Creek or Geneva, Ohio.-(See Appendix M M 13.)

2. Mouth of Chagrin River, near Willoughby, Ohio.-(See Appendix M M 14.)

Major Overman also submitted a report of a preliminary examination of Monroe Harbor, Michigan, to deepen channel to 16 feet provided for in the act, and the locality was reported by him to be in his opinion worthy of improvement. (See Appendix M M 15.)

He estimates the cost of a 16-foot channel to be $123,200. In my opinion the locality is not at present worthy of improvement to this extent.

He also submitted a report of a preliminary examination of Conneaut Harbor, Ohio, for deepening and widening channel, provided for in the act, in which he stated that with a line of railroad from the coal regions of Pennsylvania to this harbor the commerce would doubtless increase rapidly, and in that event the desired improvement to restore the harbor is in his opinion a worthy one. (See Appendix M M 16.) Having carefully considered the report made by the local engineer in this case, in my opinion the locality is not at present worthy of improvement; no instructions were therefore given for the surveys proposed.

IMPROVEMENT OF ERIE HARBOR, PENNSYLVANIA, AND DUNKIRK,
BUFFALO, WILSON, OLCOTT, AND OAK ORCHARD HARBORS, AND
TONAWANDA HARBOR AND NIAGARA RIVER, NEW YORK.
Officer in charge, Capt. Frederick A. Mahan, Corps of Engineers.
Division Engineer, Col. H. L. Abbot, Corps of Engineers.

1. Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania.-The original survey of this harbor was made in 1819, at which time the channel was narrow and tortuous, with a depth of only 6 feet. In 1823 a plan for the improvement was adopted, and constitutes the present work at the entrance to the harbor, excepting some changes which have been required either on account of the age of the structures already built or other causes.

The piers have been extended from time to time and are now in fair condition.

The present project contemplated the extension of the piers to the 16-foot curve in the lake, and the maintenance of a channel of navigable width and 16 feet in depth from the harbor inside to the lake outside. Operations have been prosecuted with more or less interruption and suspension [no work was done from 1838 to 1842, from 1846 to 1853, and from 1855 to 1864], and have resulted in much benefit to the harbor and its channel entrance. The work during the fiscal year consisted of the repairs to the piers and breakwaters, and of a survey of the peninsula to determine changes in the shore-line and the direction of the currents along the outside of the peninsula. The channel is now available to its full width for vessels drawing 16 feet of water.

To carry out the recommendations of the Board of Engineer Officers of June 14, 1882, $10,000 of the amount available for the harbor is set aside to provide for the prompt construction of a dike at the neck of the peninsula in case of necessity.

On account of the high price paid for dredging authority was granted to try hydraulic dredging. A vessel has been chartered and the machinery ordered.

The total amount appropriated for this harbor to June, 1889, is $791,867.23, of which $729,490.72 have been expended, including outstanding liabilities, resulting in the construction of the north and south piers, north and south breakwaters, and in dredging the channel. July 1, 1888, amount available..

Amount appropriated by act of August 11, 1888..

July 1, 1889, amound expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1888

July 1, 1889, outstanding liabilities..

July 1, 1889, amount covered by existing contracts..

$72, 884.22 23,000.00

95, 884. 22

$11,826.82
5,500. 64

16, 180. 25

33, 507.71

62, 376.51

July 1, 1889, balance available...

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project..
Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1891
Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and
harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix N N 1.)

24, 000, 00 24,000.00

2. Preservation and protection of the peninsula at Presque Isle, Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania. In a report upon the examination of Erie Harbor, made in 1885, it was recommended that the neck of the peninsula be protected by a breakwater, and that the movement of sand around the eastern end of the peninsula, which threatens to close the harbor entrance, be arrested by the construction of jetties perpendicular to the shore of the peninsula, at an estimated cost of $173,044.50.

Proposals were received on July 2, 1888, for the shore protection for the neck of the peninsula, and the work was awarded to Jacob Friday, of Pittsburgh, Pa. On account of the lateness of the season this contract was extended to August 1, 1889. Up to the close of the year he had finished a length of 805 feet of the protection.

Amount appropriated by act of August 11, 1888.....

July 1, 1889, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of

liabilities outstanding July 1, 1888..

July 1, 1889, outstanding liabilities..

July 1, 1889, amount covered by existing contracts..

$200.25 150.00 59,649,75

$60,000.00

60,000.00

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