Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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16 feet Abstract of proposals act of August address of bidder advertisement dated Amount appropriated amount expended appropriated by act August 11 balance available bank barges breakwater bridge built canal cents per cubic cents per hour channel Chief of Engineers City Clair Flats commerce construction contract Corps of Engineers cost cribs cubic yards depth Detroit dike dredging East Saginaw ending June 30 ENGINEER OFFICE excavation expended during fiscal feet long feet wide fiscal year ending harbor act improvement inches Island jetty labor Lake levees liabilities outstanding July linear feet low water Mary's Falls Canal material Michigan miles Mississippi River Commission Missouri River Money statement mouth navigation Ohio operations pier piles Point Port pounds profitably expended repairs revetment Riprap river and harbor rock sand Sault Ste scow scow measure season sections shore stone superstructure survey timber tons Total vessels west pier width
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Page 2608 - Commission to direct and complete such surveys of said river, between the Head of the Passes near its mouth to its headwaters as may now be in progress, and to make such additional surveys, examinations, and investigations, topographical, hydrographical, and hydrometrieal, of said river and its tributaries, as may be deemed necessary by said Commission to carry out the objects of this act.
Page 2612 - River, which sum shall be immediately available and shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi River...
Page 2605 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the improvement of the Mississippi river from the head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio river...
Page 2859 - PARK: For the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within the park, under the supervision and direction of an engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Page 2611 - Commission for the improvement of said river, from the head of the Passes near its mouth to...
Page 2853 - For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes to the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Page 2322 - DURING THE FISCAL YEAR. At the beginning of the fiscal year work was in progress under existing contract for the extension of the east breakwater.
Page 2612 - Continuing improvement, two million dollars; which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommend.ations of the Mississippi River Commission...
Page 2611 - There is hereby further authorized to be appropriated the sum of $16,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the Treasury...
Page 2608 - Senate, appoint seven oommissioners, three «f whom shall be selected from the Engineer Corps of the Army, one from the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and three from civil life, two of whom shall be civil engineers.