Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 |
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Page 3204 - Work was in progress at the beginning of the fiscal year, and was continued until August 1 , when the contract was completed.
Page 2334 - ... low water and a width of 250 feet. For the inner portion of the channel one is based on the same depth and width, and the other on a depth of 18 feet at mean low water and a width of 200 feet. The turning basin at the inner end of either channel is to be triangular in shape...
Page 2308 - NJ, for furnishing 12 pontons for the pipe line of the Cataract, delivery was completed August 9, 1918. Under contract dated March 20, 1918, with the Pennsylvania Boiler Works, of Erie, Pa., for furnishing one Scotch marine boiler for the US tug Camdcn, final inspection and test were made at the contractor's shop October 25, 1918. The boiler was installed in the tug at the Kensington Shipyard, Philadelphia, during December, 1918. Under contract dated March 25, 1918, with the William Cramp & Sons...
Page 2906 - Completing improvement of Kansas River in accordance with the report submitted in House Document No. 584, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $10,000. The project as outlined in this document provides that the expenditure be made in cooperation with local interests as follows : Removal of obstructions...
Page 2390 - Columbia shall be a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and be under the control of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army; that areas suitable for playground purposes may, in the discretion of said Commission, be assigned to the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for playground purposes.
Page 2114 - to make a report upon any other projects, river or harbor, the further improvement of which under present conditions is undesirable, or in which modifications of the plans or projects should be made.
Page 2495 - SC, that the storing of water by the power dams on Broad River seriously interfered with navigation of the Congaree River, thus disastrously affecting shipping interests. Special observations which had been begun in August, 1914, were continued in 1915-16, the costs being defrayed by allotments from the appropriation for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors.
Page 3305 - HISTORICAL NOTES. The St. Marys Rapids are about half a mile wide and three-fourths of a mile long. The fall ranges from 17 to 21 feet with the varying stages of water. The tirst canal was built on the Canadian side of the river by the Northwest Fur Co. in 1797-98. The lock was 38 feet long, 8 feet 9 inches wide, with a lift of 9 feet.
Page 3305 - The canal was lA miles long, 64 feet wide at the bottom, and 100 feet wide at the water surface. There were two tandem locks of masonry, each 350 feet long by 70 feet wide, with a lift of about 9 feet. The depth in the canal was about 13 feet and in the locks about lli feet at the stage of water then prevailing.
Page 3287 - ... miles long. Other delays at canal, which included taking on supplies, waiting for daylight or favorable weather, amounted to 3,231 hours and 29 minutes.