ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE

WAR DEPARTMENT

FOR THE

FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1899.

REPORT OF THE

CHIEF OF ENGINEERS.

PART 4.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1899.

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CONTENTS.

[Alphabetical index will be found at the end of each part or volume.]

PART I.

OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

STATUS, changes, and distribution of officers of corps, 3.

THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS

BOARD ON TORPEDO SYSTEM

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POST OF FORT TOTTEN, N. Y.-U.S. ENGINEER SCHOOL.-BATTALION
OF ENGINEERS.-ENGINEER DEPOT.

OFFICER IN COMMAND, MAJ. JOHN G. D. KNIGHT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS—

Post of Fort Totten, U. S. Engineer School, 5; Battalion of Engineers, Engineer

Depot, 6; statement of funds, 7; new appropriations, estimates, 8.

EQUIPMENT OF ENGINEER TROOPS AND CIVILIAN ASSISTANTS TO

ENGINEER OFFICERS..

FORTIFICATIONS.

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PROJECTS, 9; temporary defenses, gun and mortar batteries, 10; dynamite batter-

ies, 12; range and position finders, preservation and repair of fortifications, 13;

supplies for coast defenses, sea walls, and embankments, sites, 14; submarine

mines. National Defense appropriation and allotments, 15; defenses of coasts of

Maine and New Hampshire, 16; Boston, Mass., southeast coast of Massachusetts

and Rhode Island, at New Bedford, Mass., and Newport, R. I., 18; eastern entrance

to Long Island Sound and coast of Connecticut, 19; New York City, 20; Delaware

River, 22; Baltimore, Md., 23; Washington, D. C., 24; Hampton Roads, Va., coast

of North Carolina, 25; coast of South Carolina, 26; coast of Georgia, Cumber-

land Sound, Ga. and Fla., east coast of Florida, Key West, Fla., 27; Tampa Bay,

Fla., 29; Pensacola, Fla., Mobile and Mississippi Sound, 30; New Orleans, La.,

and Sabine Pass, Tex., 32; Galveston, Tex., Great Lakes, 33; San Diego, Cal., 34;

San Francisco, Cal., 35; mouth of Columbia River, Puget Sound, 36; estimates

for 1900-1901, 37.

RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.

GENERAL statement, 37.

ATLANTIC COAST AND GULF OF MEXICO.

IN THE CHARGE OF MAJS. R. L. HOXIE AND S. W. ROESSLER, CORPS OF ENGI-
NEERS-

Lubec Channel, Me., 44; Moosabec Bar, Me., Narraguagus River, Me., 45;
breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Bar Harbor, Me., harbor at
Sullivans Falls, Me., 46; Union River, Me., 47; Bagaduce River, Me., 48; Pe-
nobscot River, Me., 49; Rockland Harbor, Me., 51: Carvers Harbor, Vinalhaven,
Me., 52; Georges River, Me., Kennebec River, Me., 53; Sasanoa River. Me.,
Portland Harbor, Me., 55; Saco River, Me., Cape Porpoise Harbor, Me., 58;
Cocheco River, N. H., 59; harbor of refuge at Little Harbor, N. H., 60; Exeter
River, N. H., 61; removing sunken vessels or craft obstructing or endangering
navigation, estimate of cost of improvement of Cape Porpoise Harbor, Me.,
examinations and surveys, 62.

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