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inspector of the work and did not comply with the specifications for its construction.
Operations during the present fiscal year were commenced on the bar at this locality on September 16, 1875, and were suspended on October 21, 1875. Two...
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shore below to receive the water, and gently lead it through the new channel. The cost of this work will be as follows :
Removing 7,000 yards of rock, at $3.50 $24,500
Constructing 2.000 feet of dike, at $12 24, 000
Dredging 20,000 cubic...
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19 feet in the channel, obtained by scraping under the direction of my predecessor, and so well marked out by beacon-piles, has been maintained.
Survey of Sand Island, mouth of Columbia River.—The annual survey of this island was made under my...
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building dredge, scows, and dike, and in dredging and surveying the
bars.
Money statement.
Amount available July 1, 1875 $26, 625 74
Amount expended during fiscal year ending June 30, 1876 17,532 50
Amount available July 1, 1876 9, 093...
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To Mr. J. R. Farish, editor of the Commercial Reporter, of Portland, I am indebted for the following information, forwarded in a letter to me:
"The British ship Ben. Rhydding, dispatched by Messrs. Rodgers, Meyer & Co., cleared from this port...
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FF II
IMPROVEMENT OF THE UPPER WILLAMETTE RIVER, OREGON. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE RIVER.
The Willamette River rises in the Cascade range about 100 miles south of its junction with the Columbia, and cuts its way through a post-pliocene...
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the portion of the river below Portland, and deposited on the bars there, or discharged into the Columbia.
In the upper section of the river very little sediment is deposited, owing to the great velocity of the current.
HEAD OF NAVIGATION....
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the river in the main bed. This can be done by proper dikes and dams, the materials for which are found in abundance in the vicinity.
The localities where the greatest waste of water occurs, and which should be first cut off, are as follows,...
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Portland and Corvallis as near as can be obtained from the data at hand, the river having been too high since I have been in charge for careful personal examination :
Name of locality.
Distance from Portland
Date
Clackemas Bar
Rock...
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various reasons this could not be done. The result of the summer's work, which occupied two months, was the following surveys :
From Eugene City to Ingram's Bend, continuously, 27 miles ; from Albany to Salem, continuously, 33 miles. In addition...
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mile, and cuts off Bennet's Dread and Union Bar, two serious obstructions.
On October 1 the boat was towed up to Gervais' Slough, where work was continued until the 12th and 35 snags removed. The river being now so low that she could not be...
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ids and about 50 yards from Humphrey's Rock, and to build wing-dams as follows :
At Humphrey's Rock, 400 linear feet. At Long-Crossing Bar, 400 linear feet. At Buena Vista Bar, 400 linear feet. At Lackiamute Bar, 300 linear feet. At Santiam Bar,...
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Abstract of contracts for the improvement of the Upper Willamette River, Oregon, in force during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876.
Class I. Class II.
Names and residences of contractors.
Date of contract.
8,000 feet wing-dams per...
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Willamette. As the forests are cut down and the cultivated land ex-evaporation will be diminished and the drainage increased; the
floods will be hurried forward with more violence and exhaust themselves in a shorter period ; the banks will be...
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Willamette. As the forests are cut down and the cultivated land ex-evaporation will be diminished and the drainage increased; the
floods will be hurried forward with more violence and exhaust themselves in a shorter period ; the banks will be...
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WORK DONE DURING THE FISCAL YEAR.
By the act of Congress approved March 3, 1875, an appropriation of 35,000 was made for this work, and on August 25 proposals were invited for removing rock from the channel at Homly, Umatilla, Rock Creek, and...
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ing angles with a sextant at each change to signals established on a base line on shore.
The first blast was fired at Homly on November 25. Operations were carried on with considerable success until December 3, when a rapid rise in the river,...
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The contract-work having been finished, and operations being still in progress under verbal agreement, it was intended to continue on up the rapid and to remove rocks 17, 18, 19, and 20.
On March 1, while engaged on rock 17, the holes having...
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sition, the other anchors not being able to hold it. Before another anchor could be obtained from Celilo, the nearest village, 22 miles distant, the river had risen 1 foot, and, it being from 4 to 5 feet higher than last season, it was found...
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ests of this great and rapidly-developing portion of our country will demand the construction of canals around these obstacles, now passed by railway portage; but as the absolute necessity for such improvement has already been set forth in reports...
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Abstract of proposals for excavating rock from the channel of the Upper Columbia River, opened by Maj. N. Michler, Corps of Engineers, September 24, 1875.
Numbers
Names and residences of
bidders.
At Homly Rapid, 100 cubic yards, more of...
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32 p. Includes sections of Appendix FF: Annual reports of Maj. N. Michler, Corps of Engineers, and Maj. John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, detailing works of river improvements for the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
1876-11-24
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45TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Ex. DOC.l,
2d Session. Part 2.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR BEING PART OF THE MESSAGE AND DOCUMENTS
COMMUNICATED TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY...
2005-09-07
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2005-09-07
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