Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1879 |
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Page 1021 - The practice of defraying out of the Treasury of the United States the expenses incurred by the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers within the bays, inlets...
Page 1440 - ... 1888, and included the improvement of the rapids below the falls to secure a low-water channel of 8 feet. The locks were to be about 462 feet long and 92 feet wide, with a low-water depth of 8 feet over the miter sills. The existing project is a modification of the original project, and is based on report of the Board of Engineers, printed in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1895, page 3571. It provided for utilizing the upper 426 feet of the uncompleted canal above the lock gates...
Page 1033 - The Mississippi River, to ascertain the practicability, cost, and utility of a dike from Bloody Island, opposite the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, north to the dike or dam opposite Brooklyn, on the Illinois shore...
Page 1440 - Little Narragansett Bay, between Dennison Rocks and Rhode's Folly. Rhode Island and Connecticut. For examination for a route for a canal from Lake Michigan to the Wabash River, Indiana, not exceeding the expense of two thousand dollars. Clinch River, below the mouth of Emory River, and Emory River above its mouth, for removal of bars, Tennessee. Clinton River, from Mount Clemens to its mouth, Michigan. For estimate of cost to obtain thirteen feet of water on the outer bar at the mouth...
Page 1021 - Over whatever other interests of the country this government may diffuse its benefits, and its blessings, it will always be true, as matter of historical fact, that it had its immediate origin in the necessities of commerce; and, for its immediate object, the relief of those necessities, by removing their causes, and by establishing a uniform and steady system.
Page 1017 - Board, and, in view of the importance of the subject, respectfully suggest that the report be sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the information of the Committee on Commerce. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Brigadier-General and Chief of Engineers.
Page 1282 - Beferred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, April 25, 1878.
Page 1387 - At a height of about 1,300 barometric feet above the datum ]x>int, and about 500 barometric feet below the crest of the mountain, I found a remarkable belt of the finest old forest walnut timber that I have ever seen. The trees are more scattering now in this belt than they have been, for the trunks of several of the finest, which had fallen during the year, were still lying there. This walnut-growing belt winds along the mountain as far as I had time to trac«?
Page 1241 - Major of Engineers. Brig. Gen. HG WRIGHT, Chief of Engineers U. 8. A.
Page 1023 - Mississippi, course through alluvial formations inundating its banks, depositing and making the very soils through which they cut, are uncontrollable and most difficult of improvement. A great engineer in England, when substituting a canal for a river, is known to have exclaimed in explanation, " that rivers were made to feed canals.