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weight, including all the most dangerous snags between Portland and Bola.
On May 1, 1872, a contract was made with Joseph Paquet for building 2,100 linear feet, more or less, of wing-dams, for $2.50 per foot. The sum expended during the fiscal...
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bends and bars bristling with snags, obstructing navigation for several miles below the raft. The new channel was named Ohio Chute. Sum expended during the year, $7,500.
1875-'76.
(Maj. N. Michler was relieved December 28, 1875, by Maj....
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1877-'78.
(Under charge of Maj. J. M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers.)
No appropriations for river and harbor work having been made, the sum available for the operations of the present year was the unexpended balance from the last year,...
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1879-'80.
(Officer in charge, Maj. G. L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers.)
Sum appropriated by act of March :1, 1879 $12, 000 00
Five hundred and forty-three snags were removed from the river between Oregon City and Buena Vista during the...
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DISTANCES FROM PORTLAND.
To— Miles.
Milwaukee 5 I/2
Oswego 7
Oregon City 12
Rock Island 16
Polally Bar- 18
Boone's Ferry 25
Butteville 29
Champoeg 32 1/2
Ash Island 37
Yamhill Bar 40
Carey's Bend 43
Candianis...
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DISTANCES FROM PORTLAND.
To— Miles.
Milwaukee 5 I/2
Oswego 7
Oregon City 12
Rock Island 16
Polally Bar- 18
Boone's Ferry 25
Butteville 29
Champoeg 32 1/2
Ash Island 37
Yamhill Bar 40
Carey's Bend 43
Candianis...
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MONUMENTAL RAPIDS, SNAKE RIVER, 40 MILES ABOVE ITS MOUTH
The river is here 1,500 feet wide, and the rapid is formed by a rocky reef on the right bank 800 feet wide, which is prolonged from its lower end by a long gravel bar to the opposite...
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UMATILLA RAPIDS, 20 MILES BELOW WALLULA, COLUMBIA RIVER.
The water in the Upper Columbia was very low throughout the autumn and winter, and the Umatilla Rapids could seldom be passed either way without injury to the boats. In September two...
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In compliance with the act of June 23, 1866, I respectfully state that the amounts appropriated for this work, from act of June 10, 1872, to act
of March 3, 1879, both inclusive, were $160, 000 00
By act approved June 14, 1880 15,000 00...
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Abstract of proposals for the removal of rock from the channels of the Upper Columbia and
Snake Rivers, opened by Maj. G. L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, September 23, 1879.
Number.
1,000 cubic yards of rock, more or less (per cubic...
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Rock Creek Rapid, 28 miles above Celilo.
Owyhee Rapid, 38 miles above Celilo.
Canoe Encampment Rapid, 60 miles above Celilo.
Devil's Bend Rapid, 80 miles above Celilo.
Umatilla Rapids, lower, middle, and upper, 85 to 88 miles above Celilo....
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Surveys of Rock Creek and Homely Rapids and experiments in blast ing rock at John Day Rapid were made by Lieutenant Heuer in the fall of 1868. Although the experiments were made under the most unfavorable conditions, their result, so far as giving...
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Operations were confined to Umatilla and Squally Hook Rapids, removing nine rocks, three aggregating 158.29 cubic yards, from the former, and six, aggregating 192.06 yards, from the latter point. Surveys were made of the Cascades and the Dalles...
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MAP OF
MONUMENTAL RAPIDS
ON THE SNAKE RIVER W.T.
showing positions of Rocks in course of removal under the direction of
MAJOR G.L.GILLESPIE, CORPS OF ENGINEERS
1879-80
Giant Powder Magazine
Shore line
Gravel and Cobble Stone...
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1877-'78.
(Officer in charge, Maj. J. M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers.)
Amount available July 1, 1877 $5, 750 09
Expended during fiscal year 5,750 09
During the year 147.24 cubic yards of rock were removed from Umatilla Upper Rapid under...
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until the 19th of December, when the river became filled with floating ice, forcing a suspension. The results obtained were unimportant, the severe cold and very rapid current preventing working to advantage.
The amount expended up to June 30,....
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until the 19th of December, when the river became filled with floating ice, forcing a suspension. The results obtained were unimportant, the severe cold and very rapid current preventing working to advantage.
The amount expended up to June 30,....
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winter and spring when the river was at or near its low stage, and observations taken subsequently to date, for velocities at all stages between high and low water, and will soon be presented for the information of the Board, which will then be...
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The total amount of work done, including materials delivered by the contractors under their contract, is tabulated as follows :
Material removed :
Earth cubic yards.. 28, 944
Loose rock do 12, 102
Solid rock do. 26,640
Rubble blocks...
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The estimated cost of the project is $1,753,867; of this amount $500,000 can be profitably expended during the next fiscal year in continuing the excavation of the canal prism, the building of the protective embankment, and in building the masonry...
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Abstract of contracts for the construction of a portion of the canal around the Cascades of
the Columbia River, Oregon, in force during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880.
Name and residence of contractor
1 Ball & Platt, New York City....
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The excavated materials are bowlders, gravel, sand, massive conglomerate with detached pieces, and clay. The conglomerate is a black cemented sand rock, perhaps of volcanic origin. It varies widely in texture and hardness. Near the surface small...
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rammed. The adjoining widths for 5 to 10 feet were generally made by wagons or barrows; and of the main embankment the widths next to the slopes were made of stone, heavy material, and gravel, dumped from cars. On the outer slope the stone was...
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but utterly failed to stem the rapid, and in fact could not hold her own in the current. Gauge No. 2 on June I read 40 feet above low-water. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
CHAS. F. POWELL,
First Lieutenant, Engineers.
Maj. G. L....
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below the low-water assumed in the preparation of the original project. This low-water stage is said to be the lowest that the river has reached in 10 years.
The department has also, since the date of the report of 1877, authorized an increase...
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