Greenport, situated on Shelter Island Sound, near the east end of Long Island, is a port of delivery in the collection district of Sag Harbor. The nearest light-house is on Long Beach Point, 3 miles to the eastward. The nearest work of defense is Fort Trumbull, New London Harbor, Connecticut, by a straight line 21 miles distant. I have as yet been unable to obtain any statement of the amount of commerce at Greenport, N. Y., during the past fiscal year. July 1, 1884, amount available Money statement. Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884. July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884.. July 1, 1885, amount available.... $819 27 10,000 00 10,819 27 10,518 49 300 78 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing preject.. 26,000 00 26,000 00 D 18. IMPROVEMENT OF PORT JEFFERSON HARBOR, NEW YORK. This harbor is a large land-locked bay, about 60 miles east of New York, on the north side of Long Island, nearly opposite Bridgeport, Conn., with about 16 feet depth of water in it, and opening into Long Island Sound through a narrow inlet, which was originally nearly closed by a sand-bar, with about 3 feet of water over it. A history of this harbor may be found in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1879, page 359. A survey of it was made in 1853, but nothing was done till 1871, when a project for its improvement was submitted by Lieut. Col. G. K. Warren, which provided for building a cut-stone masonry breakwater on the east side of the entrance and for dredging a channel through the inlet 200 feet wide and 7 feet deep at low water. The estimated cost of this work was $165,125. The first appropriation for it was made in 1871, with which a riprap jetty, in place of the cutstone break water, was begun on the east side of the harbor. In 1875 the building of a similar jetty was begun on the west side of the entrance under a modification of the project proposed by Major Barlow. In 1877 the project was further modified by increasing the proposed depth between the jetties to 8 feet at low water and reducing the proposed width to 100 feet instead of 200 feet. Since that date the jetties have both been extended and the channel between them dredged to a depth of 8 feet at low water over the proposed width of 100 feet. When work closed in 1883 the east jetty had a length of 1,390 feet, which carried its outer end into 10 feet water, and the west jetty had a length 940 feet, which carried it into 6 feet water. The last appropriation, passed August 2, 1882, made up the amount which had been estimated for the completion of the project; but it is not at all certain that the work has yet reached a permanent condition and further improvement may be needed there. It will not, however, suffer injury by a delay, during which the effect of the jetties upon the channel may be further observed, and if additional work be found necessary a plan for its con tinuance will be submitted. No appropriation is asked for at present. The following several amounts have been appropriated by Congress for this work, viz: Port Jefferson, a port of delivery in the collection district of New York, is on the north shore of Long Island, about 50 miles by a straight line east of New York City, and nearly opposite Bridgeport, Conn. There is a light-house on Old Field Point, just west of the harbor entrance. Fort Hale, New Haven Harbor, 23 miles distant, is the nearest work of defense. I have as yet been unable to obtain any statement of the amount of commerce at Port Jefferson, N. Y., during the past fiscal year. July 1, 1884, amount available.. Money statement. July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884 July 1, 1885, amount available $1,119 63 644 57 475 06 D 19. IMPROVEMENT OF FLUSHING BAY, NEW YORK. Flushing Bay is situated on the north shore of Long Island, about 14 miles by water from the Battery at New York. It is about a mile wide and 2 miles long. The town of Flushing, L. I., is situated on the east bank of Flushing Creek, about a quarter of a mile from the head of the bay. In 1861 there was a depth of 5 feet at low water in the chan nel leading up to Flushing, and less than 4 feet in 1879. The bottom of the bay consists chiefly of mud, and deposits are continually forming there from the muddy wash of the salt-meadows through which the creek flows. The first appropriation for the improvement of this harbor was made March 3, 1879, within two months after a survey and a re port upon it had been made. The project recommended in the report provided for the formation of a tidal basin by the construction of dikes, which, by its filling and emptying through one channel, would maintain a channel depth of 6 feet at mean low water, and possibly more, after once being dredged. Constructing 900 linear feet of pile dike, at $7.50 per linear foot Constructing 3,600 linear feet of single piling, at $3 70 per linear foot The estimated cost of carrying out this project was as follows: |