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the use of Government scrapers, and assistance in the work. The scraping was discouraged because a beneficial result was regarded as doubtful, but the suggestion was made to the applicant that sluicing with a wheel of a steamship was more...
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full charge of the ship and working parties, and made all arrangement on his own judgment.
It can be noticed that the Walla-Walla was maneuvered exactly described for Noble's channeler, on page 671 of the Chief of Engineers report, 1868, and...
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Additions to the machine have been made since, but it is of a kind not adapted for Swan Island Bar, which is the only one now that remains where dredging is needed in the ship-channel of the Willamette River.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR POST-OFFICE BAR....
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under control of the Coon Island work, would restore the depth of feet; but the low water and busiest part of the shipping preceded.
There seemed to be no doubt that the works on the right bank author. ized by the project for improvement were...
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mette since 1876, on which was based the plan for permanent improvement now more than half carried out.
Day-time tidal readings at Vancouver were made during part of January, February, and March, to cover the low-water period; and at Saint...
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MORRISON STREET BRIDGE.
No work has been done during the year on this unfinished structure, either to remove the parts already built or to complete the bridge. A proposed bill, giving consent of the United States to the completion of the bridge,...
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REPORT OF MR. R. A. HABERSHAM, ASSISTANT ENGINEER.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, Portland, Oreg., June 30, 1883.
CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit the following report of operations on the Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers under my...
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The locality, quantity, and cost of the work accomplished during the season are as follows :
Locality, &c. Length. Cost.
Feet. Per foot.
Head of Willamette Slough, training-dike 1, 345 $4 72
Head of Sauvie's Island, pile revetment 240...
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At Nigger Tom Slough piles were first driven along the axis of the dam 10 feet apart. Mats made of fascines, 15 by 30 feet, were then made on a cradle mounted on an open barge, or on inclined ways on the beach, and hauled alongside the piles, on...
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overboard from a fascine barge during a freshet, and, being unable to swim, war drowned before assistance could reach him.
Acknowledgment is due to the valuable services rendered by W. L. Smith and Edward Edwards, overseers, whose activity and...
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REDUCED MAP
of
Survey of
LOWER WILLAMETTE AND COLUMBIA RIVERS
1882 -1883.
Showing Constructions for permanent Improvement up to June 30, 1883.
References.
a,b,c, fascine dams built 1882-3
d,e, revetments 1880-2-3
f, dam...
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SEA TRAFFIC FROM PORTLAND. Wheat centals 2, 889, 022
Flour barrels 579,745
Oats centals. 314,546
Mill-feed sacks 51, 989
Barley centals 32, 311
Flag-seed sacks 169,454
Wool pounds 14, 397, 989
Other produce tons 216, 588...
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MORRISON STREET BRIDGE.
No work has been done during the year on this unfinished structure, either to remove the parts already built or to complete the bridge. A proposed bill, giving consent of the United States to the completion of the bridge,...
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REPORT OF MR. R. A. HABERSHAM, ASSISTANT ENGINEER.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, Portland, Oreg., June 30, 1883.
CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit the following report of operations on the Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers under my...
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The locality, quantity, and cost of the work accomplished during the season are as follows :
Locality, &c. Length. Cost.
Feet. Per foot.
Head of Willamette Slough, training-dike 1, 345 $4 72
Head of Sauvie's Island, pile revetment 240...
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At Nigger Tom Slough piles were first driven along the axis of the dam 10 feet apart. Mats made of fascines, 15 by 30 feet, were then made on a cradle mounted on an open barge, or on inclined ways on the beach, and hauled alongside the piles, on...
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overboard from a fascine barge during a freshet, and, being unable to swim, war drowned before assistance could reach him.
Acknowledgment is due to the valuable services rendered by W. L. Smith and Edward Edwards, overseers, whose activity and...
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REDUCED MAP
of
Survey of
LOWER WILLAMETTE AND COLUMBIA RIVERS
1882 -1883.
Showing Constructions for permanent Improvement up to June 30, 1883.
References.
a,b,c, fascine dams built 1882-3
d,e, revetments 1880-2-3
f, dam...
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SEA TRAFFIC FROM PORTLAND. Wheat centals 2, 889, 022
Flour barrels 579,745
Oats centals. 314,546
Mill-feed sacks 51, 989
Barley centals 32, 311
Flag-seed sacks 169,454
Wool pounds 14, 397, 989
Other produce tons 216, 588...
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PP2.
MOUTH OF COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON.
In compliance with law, a Board of Engineers examined the mouth of Columbia River in September and prepared plans with estimate for permanent improvement, the report of which was published as Senate Ex,...
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COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.
The mouth of the Columbia is in collection district of Oregon. The nearest port of entry is Astoria, and the nearest light-houses and works of defense, at the entrance to the river.
The following refer to the...
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1882, making appropriation "for the expenses of a Board of Engineers to examine in detail the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, and report such plan, with estimates, for its permanent improvement, as they approve, the said Board being required...
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An examination of the general chart of the coast shows a narrow sand spit running north for 25 miles, from the general headland of which Cape Disappointment is a part, to the entrance of Shoalwater Bay, and separating this bay from the ocean. On...
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Captain Payson. The Coast Pilot notes 3.4 miles between Point Adams and Sand Island, and 4.4 between the latter place and Cape Disappointment.
In a paper by Captain Powell, appended to this report, further details as to channels may be found....
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already referred to, of Sand Island, the extent of whose shoal within the 18-foot curve was 4 square miles ; the middle of the shoal was near the place where 30 feet of water existed in 1792.
A plausible theory to account for this shoal is the...
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