Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - Engineering Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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1909 allotted Mar 1915 allotted Apr 3d sess 63d Cong allotted Aug Amount in customary Amount in short Articles barges barrels Brick bushels calendar year 1917 Cement cents per cubic channel closed December 31 Coal Coastwise COMMERCIAL STATISTICS Contractor CONTRACTS IN FORCE cost Cottonseed Cottonseed meal crates Creek cubic yards customary units Date fixed December 31 expenditures feet b. m. Fertilizer FISCAL Fish fixed for completion Freight traffic Freight traffic-Continued gallons Gasoline Grain Grand total harbor act Head of Passes INBOUND TRAFFIC July 13 July 25 June 13 June 25 June 30 Lime linear feet long tons Lumber maintenance manufactures merchandise mile Miscellaneous net registered tonnage office expenses Opened January OPERATIONS OUTBOUND TRAFFIC passengers Present project Previous projects projects see H Receipts from sales registered tonnage repairs river and harbor sacks Sand scow Season of navigation short tons snag Steamers ton-mile Unregistered Valuation Value Vessel classification
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Page 2078 - Crossing lying west of the river, work on which was in progress at the beginning of the fiscal year, was completed and the backfilling placed.
Page 2451 - ... which was in progress at the close of the last fiscal year, was completed Aug.
Page 3237 - Haney were the contractors. The Poe Lock, 800 feet long, 100 feet wide, and having 22 feet of water on the sills, was built by the United States in the years 188T to 1896.
Page 3238 - ... this difference being due to the slow movement of the boats while entering and leaving the locks and to the fact that in nearly half of the lockages more than one boat was passed. Frequently AS many as five boats were included in a single lockage.
Page 3237 - Company was the contractor. The locks were destroyed in 1888 by excavations for the present Poe lock. The Weitzel lock, 515 feet long, 80 feet wide in chamber, narrowing to 60 feet at the gates, with 17 feet depth of water on the miter sills...
Page 2743 - ... for the improvement of the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to the mouth of the Missouri, and by the Mississippi Hiver Commission and the district offices thereunder, the patrol of the »nun boat« extending through all these engineer districts.
Page 3237 - ... was built on the north side of the river in the years 1888 to 1895. Hon. Collingwood Schreiber was chief engineer of Dominion canals, etc., and WG McNeill Thompson was the government engineer in local charge of construction work. Ryan & Haney were the contractors.
Page 3238 - The Hay Lake route was improved for a depth of 20 feet at mean stage of water, years 1882 to 1894. Betterment of the channels has been continued since that time, so that the dredged areas now total 45 miles in length with least width of 300 feet, increasing at angles and at other critical places up to 1,000 feet.
Page 3237 - Holmes. The first ship canal, known as the State Canal, was built on the American side of the river in 1853 to 1855; some 750,000 acres of land in Michigan having been granted by the United States Congress for the con-.
Page 2152 - June 30, 1917, just published, the following data are compiled : •The leading articles of import into the United States at the port of New York for the year ending June 30...