Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1870 |
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12 feet 30 feet A. A. HUMPHREYS act of July Amount available July Amount required annual report Appendix August board measure boats bottom breakwater Brevet Brevet Major bridge canal cents channel charge Chief of Engineers commenced completed Congress construction contract cords Corps of Engineers cost cribs cubic yards dike dredging embankment ending June 30 estimate excavation expended feet long feet wide fiscal year ending foot G. K. WARREN harbor high water improvement inches iron July 11 Lake Lake Superior Lieutenant Colonel lineal feet low water Major of Engineers Michigan miles Mississippi River mouth navigation north pier obedient servant obstructions operations piles port pounds present proposed protection railroad removed repairs respectfully riprap Rock Island sand season September Shoal shore side south pier steamer stone submitted superstructure survey timber tion Total United States Army UNITED STATES ENGINEER velocity vessels west pier width
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Página 240 - AA HUMPHREYS, Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers. Hon.
Página 231 - That if any bridge built under this act shall be constructed as a draw-bridge, the same shall be constructed as a pivot drawbridge with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point...
Página 382 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers.
Página 231 - ... the same shall be constructed as a pivot drawbridge with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point, and with spans of not less than...
Página 433 - GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit the following report of the operations...
Página 519 - The importance of a permanent and substantial bridge at or near the point indicated has been sufficiently well established, and it is to be hoped that the necessary action will be taken to accomplish an object which is so much desired, and which will tend so much toward advancing the interests of the capital of the nation.
Página 478 - WHEREAS, It is represented to this Court that a navigable canal may without much difficulty be cut through the isthmus which separates Buzzards Bay and Barnstable Bay, whereby the Hazardous Navigation round Cape Cod, both on account of the shoals and enemy, may be prevented, and a safe communication between this colony and the southern colonies be so far secured, Resolved, That James Bowdoin and William Sever, Esqrs., with such as the Hon.
Página 211 - making appropriations for the repairs, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.
Página 480 - An act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates upon the subject of roads and canals." It authorized the President to cause surveys and estimates to be made of the routes of such roads and canals...
Página 249 - ... to the bottom chord of the bridge, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of the river...