Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1877 |
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... ranges and soundings taken over the area of the proposed improve- ment . These soundings establish the location of the work to give the required width and depth of water - way , with the minimum removal of rock , the amount being 2,636 ...
... ranges and soundings taken over the area of the proposed improve- ment . These soundings establish the location of the work to give the required width and depth of water - way , with the minimum removal of rock , the amount being 2,636 ...
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... ranges were changed to correspond with the new temporary entrance . On the 8th of August , and during the remainder of the season , the commerce of the port entered thereby . Vessel owners and captains were previously advised of the ...
... ranges were changed to correspond with the new temporary entrance . On the 8th of August , and during the remainder of the season , the commerce of the port entered thereby . Vessel owners and captains were previously advised of the ...
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... ranges on Bois Blanc Island . The work was carried on from the deck of a raft , and the drilling done entirely by hand . The deck of the raft was perforated at equal distances , and in the holes 3 - inch iron pipes inserted . Through ...
... ranges on Bois Blanc Island . The work was carried on from the deck of a raft , and the drilling done entirely by hand . The deck of the raft was perforated at equal distances , and in the holes 3 - inch iron pipes inserted . Through ...
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... range - lights for the same channel ; the light which marks the harbor is a fixed white of the fourth order . The neares : defensive work is Fort Wayne , near Detroit , distant 45 miles . Toledo harbor , Ohio , is in the collection ...
... range - lights for the same channel ; the light which marks the harbor is a fixed white of the fourth order . The neares : defensive work is Fort Wayne , near Detroit , distant 45 miles . Toledo harbor , Ohio , is in the collection ...
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... range - stakes , easily seen from any point on the gauge - line , on shore , 100 feet were measured out into the stream , on the gauge - line , with a line , the distance marked by a small anchor with buoy attached , and the depth ...
... range - stakes , easily seen from any point on the gauge - line , on shore , 100 feet were measured out into the stream , on the gauge - line , with a line , the distance marked by a small anchor with buoy attached , and the depth ...
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Altitude Amount appropriated amount available amount expended approved August 14 Aquarii Assistant Engineer August 14 bank basalt Big Horn breakwater bridge Camelop camp Cañon Carr Carson Carson City Carson River channel Chief of Engineers Chronometer City collection-district Columbia River comparisons Corps of Engineers Creek cribs crossing cubic yards depth Detroit distance dredging east eastern ending June 30 expended during fiscal expended in fiscal feet fiscal year ending Fort Fetterman grass gravel harbor improvement inches July June 30 Lake Michigan Lake Tahoe length Lieut Lieutenant Birnie low-water mean Michigan miles Money statement Mount Forest mountains mouth party Peak Pegasi plagioclase pounds profitably expended Ranch Reference Pt repairs River road rock Saint sand sandstone season side slope Slough spring station stone stream summit survey tels temperature timber tonnage tons Ursa Minoris valley vessels Washington Aqueduct Willamette Willamette River wood Yellowstone
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957 페이지 - ... 7. As far as practicable, what amount of commerce and navigation would be benefited by the completion of each particular work.
978 페이지 - Improvement. [Compiled from the annual report of the Chief of Engineers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914.] LOCALITY.
1431 페이지 - I have the honor to submit my annual report for the year ending June 30, 1877. The discharge of the office employés at the close of the preceding fiscal year stopped the drawing- of four important maps, which have been much needed. This will necessitate the redrawing of these maps, as other draughtsmen cannot finish them. It has been impossible to meet the frequent demand for maps. The troops have been actively employed throughout the year, in parts of the division, in operations against the Indians.
1019 페이지 - Portland, Oreg., in August last to consider the project of Maj. John M. Wilson, of the Corps of Engineers, for the improvement of the Lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers, from Portland to the sea. After personally examining these rivers and Major Wilson's charts and project, the Board presented a preliminary report under date of August...
1025 페이지 - JOHN M. WILSON, Major of Engineers. Brig. Gen. AA HUMPHREYS, Chief of Engineers, U. 8. A. LETTER OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, Washington, DC, May '21, 1877.
928 페이지 - Government, and of the piers, breakwaters, docks, wharves, buildings, and other improvements made by the United States appertaining to said harbor of refuge, and to facilitate the use thereof, including the channels of and approaches to said harbor of refuge, so far as may be necessary to the protection and use of said harbor and the improvements aforesaid ; and said Secretary of War. for the purpose aforesaid, and for...
1093 페이지 - SIR : I have the honor to inclose a copy of a letter which I have thought it proper to send to chairmen of some committees of Congress.
1052 페이지 - Hassler, the' weather was very moderate, with only the usual summer wind from the northwest, vet, although there was 20 feet of water on the bar at the time, the pilot refused to take in the Hassler, drawing only 12 feet of water at the time, stating that he could not do so without running the risk of the vessel striking the bottom and her possible loss in the breakers. The shores on both sides of the entrance are low and sandy, and there is no stone in the immediate vicinity. The only way, as it...
933 페이지 - ... feet. Above that the river is entirely useless for vessels, there being in some places only 3 feet of water. This state of affairs has been caused by the gradual encroachment on and changing of the channel by the lumbermen in driving piles, building docks, cutting passages through the river banks for their own convenience in reaching their mills with their logs, in fact using the river in every way as if it were their own private property and not a common highway. As a general thing the river...
1422 페이지 - ... cliffs and spires, their castellated hills and cathedral ruins, red, and red, and red, are again encountered in the smaller tributaries, until the red sandstone goes under the surface, and the chalky tops of the canon walls are found from one to the other until they too disappear, the very water-courses cease to be, and the unbroken prairie reigns supreme. Again the series of strata which do form the field for study are vaguely coarse and unattractive, upon close inspection, and the absence of...