Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals of New York1859 accompanied by volume of maps with title: Engravings of plans, profiles and maps, illustrating the standard models, from which are built the important structures on the New York State canals. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
1918 Terminal contract 50 per day Albany amendatory laws amount paid approved April area graded assistant engineer Junior Asst BARGE CANAL TERMINAL Boatman Canal Board Champlain canal chapter 181 charge coffer-dam compensation Services Travel completed concrete Construction of Barge Construction work began contract price contractor's bid crane creek dockwall east Eastern engineer Junior assistant engineer's preliminary estimate Engineering assistant Engr Erie canal excavation extra work order feet final account finished Gage reader Genesee river guard-lock Incidental Expenses increases the contract installed July June 30 Junior assistant engineer Laborer 2 50 Little Falls modified by alteration Mohawk river NAME Rank Rate navigation old canal order dated Oswego Oswego canal Oswego river paid on extra pier price as modified prism railroad Rate of compensation removed residency riprap Rochester Schenectady Senior Services Travel Total steel sheet-piling Stenographer Superintendent of Public Tonawanda Tonawanda creek total to date wall warehouses
Popular passages
Page 220 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 216 - Contract No. 63-A This contract is for completing the construction of the canal from the west line of Wayne county to the east end of contract No. 23-A at King's Bend. Length, 12.22 miles. It was awarded to the State Highway Construction Company, being signed on February 23, 1916.
Page 263 - This laboratory has also been making a thorough study of the proposition to substitute compression tests of cement for the present tension tests and it is securing data which will help toward a wise decision on this question. Of the cement tested and proposed for use, all was Portland cement. The brands represented are about as of recent years.
Page 264 - ... nearly alike in the regular tests. All tests for strength cover at least 28 days, but many long-time tests are being carried. Considerable attention has been given to the methods used in making the tests and it is believed that the most accurate methods are being used.
Page 156 - OF CLAIMS In addition to the work usually required by the Superintendent of Public Works in connection with ordinary repairs, a large amount of survey work and mapping has been made of property alleged to have been damaged by the State, reports made and data properly arranged for the Court of Claims and the AttorneyGeneral. A large amount of time is spent by the engineers as witnesses for the State on local claims during the sessions of the Court. BLUE LINE...
Page 263 - As soon as the samples are taken, the inspector places the bin of cement under the seal of this Department and the bin is so sealed that no cement can be added to or taken from it without detection. When the results of the tests have been secured, the reports are made in the usual way, and then, if the cement is accepted, the bin of cement is assigned to the contract which may have placed an order for the cement. When the contractor needs cement, the inspector at the mill breaks the seal on the bin,...
Page 266 - ... laboratory sample alone, but with both tests and field inspection absolute knowledge is gained. Inspection of its actual use is also a help in considering the points of merit or demerit in the material. Inspections of concrete that has been in place for some time have been made...
Page 264 - The latter are made from the sand in its natural condition and also washed ; and the cement is a " standard " cement, made by mixing together in the laboratory several brands of cement which have given results nearly alike in the regular tests. All tests for strength cover at least 28 days, but many long-time tests are being carried. Considerable attention has been given to the methods used in making the tests and it is believed that they are the most accurate that can be employed.
Page 37 - An act to provide for establishing a portion of the north boundary lino of the county of Ulster, and being a portion of the south boundary line of the county of Greene and known as the north boundary line of Great Lot number eight, Hardenburgh patent, and making an appropriation therefor...
Page 197 - The foregoing tables are summarized as follows: Ordinary Repairs to Canals 1 Erie canal, chapter...