Report by a Special Board of Engineers on Survey of Mississippi River from St. Louis, Mo., to Its Mouth, with a View to Obtaining a Channel 14 Feet Deep and of Suitable Width, Including a Consideration of the Survey of a Proposed Waterway from Chicago, Ill., to St. Louis, Mo., Heretofore Reported Upon, Volume 1 |
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Page 7 - That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named : Improving Harbor at Belfast, Me.
Page 50 - ... correct, permanently locate and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi river; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate commerce, trade and the postal service...
Page 49 - Louis of 2,500 feet at bank-full stage, the natural width in many cases being a mile or more at mean high water; this result to be...
Page 8 - Upon the completion of the duty assigned them, the members of the Board will return to their proper stations. The journeys required under this order are necessary for the public service. By command of Brigadier-General Gillespie: CHAS.
Page 48 - Donaldsonville of 10 square miles by 8(i feet in depth annually. Erosion does not necessarily mean a widening of the bed. The eroded bank is generally followed by an equivalent fill on the opposite bank, and in some localities of excessive erosion the bed has actually grown narrower. Further details of the comparison will be found in the report of Mr. JA Ockerson, assistant engineer, hereto appended.
Page 45 - ... at certain stages the current exceeds that which the river bed can resist. River bars are usually to be expected below each caving bank at the point where the curvature disappears, or at any point of a straight reach where the river is unusually broad, the bar being due generally to the slackening of the current at such point and to the consequent local deposit of rolling or suspended matter. A river bar rarely maintains a location square across the river, because in such case it is exposed to...
Page 4 - ... commission, and two engineer officers of the United States Army, to examine the Mississippi River below Saint Louis and report to Congress, at the earliest date by which a thorough examination can be made, upon the practicability and desirability of constructing and maintaining a navigable channel fourteen feet deep and of suitable width from Saint Louis to the mouth of the river, either by the improvement of said river or by a canal or canals for part of said route.
Page 42 - Caving banks may very properly be classified as eroding banks, slumping banks, sinking banks, and sliding or slipping banks, and these four classes of banks are markedly different from each other in general appearance, origin, or both.
Page 7 - What depth of channel is it practicable to produce between Saint Louis and Cairo at low water by means of regulation works. Second. What depth will obtain in such regulated channel at the average stage of water for the year. Third. For what average number of days annually will fourteen feet of water obtain in such regulated channel. Fourth. What increase of depth will be obtained over the natural flow of water in such regulated channel by an added volume of ten thousand cubic feet per second; also...