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act approved March Amount available July Amount expended Amount in hands Amount required Appendix appropriated by act Balance in Treasury bank Bayou Bend Big Stone Lake Blue Earth River bluff board-measure bowlders breakwater canal channel check July Chief of Engineers completed Congress construction continuing the improvement cords Corps of Engineers cost Creek cribs cubic yards dike dredging due on contracts ending June 30 estimate excavation feet high feet wide fiscal year ending flood foot G. K. WARREN Gauge gravel hands of officer harbor high water inches Island June 23 Lake levees linear feet Little Rapids locks and dams low water low-water miles Minnesota River Mississippi River mouth navigation officer and subject Ohio piles pounds removed repairs riprap rock Saint Louis sand season Secretary of War Shoal snags stone survey thousand dollars timber Total Treasury of United United States July valley wickets width Yellow Medicine River
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590 페이지 - The maximum discharge, in any normal rise, occurs when the has reached a point a few inches below the highest point attained. 4. If, when a freshet has culminated, and the water either comes to a stand or begins to fall, a second rise occurs, it will cause the surface to rise considerably higher than would have been the case had the same volume passed without a previous diminution of supply. For instance, in the flood of 1851 the Mississippi, at Red River Landing, attained a certain stage, with a...
39 페이지 - An act to provide for the appointment of a commission of engineers to investigate and report a permanent plan for the reclamation of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi River subject to inundation," I appointed a commission of engineers.
149 페이지 - ... no part of this appropriation shall be paid out of the Treasury until contracts shall have been entered into with responsible parties, and with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary of War, for the construction and completion of said bridge, including the...
13 페이지 - Fort Foote, Potomac River, Maryland, in charge of Maj. William P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers. — This work is on the inner line of defense of the channel of approach by water to Alexandria, Washington, and Georgetown. The site is high, commanding, and unusually favorable. During the past fiscal year, for want of funds, nothing was attempted except some repairs of a limited extent.
715 페이지 - ... of from three quarters of an inch to an inch and a quarter on the side of a stile.
178 페이지 - Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
26 페이지 - Corps of Engineers. — This barbette work is situated on the western end of Grand Terre Island, at the entrance to Barataría Bay. It guards the only approach to New Orleans by vessels drawing 7 feet or less, available on the west side of the Mississippi River. It also secures a safe anchorage and harbor of refuge for our light-draught coasters in time of war.
37 페이지 - I appointed a board to make a survey of the mouth of the Mississippi River with a view to determine the best method of obtaining and maintaining a depth of water sufficient for the purposes of commerce...
590 페이지 - At any given gauge-reading there is usually more water passing in a long and rapid than in a short and slow rise, but this is not always the case, the discharge being governed by the relative stage of the water in the channel above and below. 3. The maximum discharge, in any normal rise, occurs when the has reached a point a few inches below the highest point attained.
178 페이지 - Such regulations shall provide for the preservation, from injury or spoliation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition.