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REPORT OF LIEUTENANT W. YOUNG, CORPS OF ENGINEERS.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, Cascade Locks, Oregon, March 14, 1886.
Sir : I have the honor to report that, in compliance with your orders of the 10th instant, I left this place Wednesday,...
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I returned to this place Tuesday morning, the 23d instant, after stopping one day at Fort Walla Walla to examine the source of the post water supply, as requested by General Gibbon.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. YOUNG,
First...
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I returned to this place Tuesday morning, the 23d instant, after stopping one day at Fort Walla Walla to examine the source of the post water supply, as requested by General Gibbon.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. YOUNG,
First...
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I returned to this place Tuesday morning, the 23d instant, after stopping one day at Fort Walla Walla to examine the source of the post water supply, as requested by General Gibbon.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. YOUNG,
First...
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No funds have been available during the fiscal year. I therefore have no operations to report.
It is proposed during the coming fiscal year to complete the project.
APPROPRIATIONS.
Act March 3, 1879 $5, 000
Act June 14, 1880 5, 000...
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No funds have been available during the fiscal year. I therefore have no operations to report.
It is proposed during the coming fiscal year to complete the project.
APPROPRIATIONS.
Act March 3, 1879 $5, 000
Act June 14, 1880 5, 000...
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REPORT OF EMIL T. VOIGT.
PORTLAND, OREG., March 30, 1885.
SIR: According to directions of your favor of the 9th instant, I left this city on the 10th for Priest Rapids, Columbia River, and made inquiry concerning supply, shelter, and...
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The following instructions were issued to the gauge party. They were necessarily in considerable detail, as the party was not experienced in surveying :
PRIEST RAPIDS, COLUMBIA RIVER-DIRECTIONS FOR GAUGE-READING PARTY.
UNITED STATES...
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CURRENT OBSERVATIONS.
Current observations will be taken once a week at the rapid near the head, and at the rapid near the foot of Priest Rapids.
At each point lay out and measure a base line, substantially parallel with the current line taken...
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to show the relation between level of river's bed. Make a good section below from which approximate discharge can be computed.
Party can keep the field until early in November, say the 10th.
If you have the time, make a boat reconnaissance up...
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Soundings were taken extensively along the whole line, and every rock was located and measured. The work was thoroughly and most economically done, and the party deserves much commendation for its industrious and faithful performance. No time was...
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APPENDIX Q Q—REPORT OF MAJOR JONES. 1959
TABLE II.—Current measurement. [Tabulated from F. J. Carrel's notes.]
Places opposite which currents were
taken.
Sept. 7 Between A 1 L and A 2 L..
[triangle] 3L "[triangle] 4L...
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TABLE IV.—Discharge measurement.
Stage of river above
low water.
At a point 820 feet below
A 2L.
Discharge in cubic feet per second.
Velocity.
Date.
May 12*
May 19
May 27
June 11
June 18
June 25 July 2...
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the other instrument, so that the position of the float was accurately located upon entering and leaving the course. In one or two instances a third point in the middle of the course was also determined by angles from both instruments.
Time was...
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APPENDIXES
TO THE
REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS,
UNITED STATES ARMY.
(CONTINUED.)
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extends down to the lower rapid. The formation is basaltic; the island is in places covered with bowlders, but is mostly bare, and the exposed surface is cut and channeled in every direction by the constant action of the river at the high stages,...
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above Rapid No. 1, where it is greatly needed. Rapid No. 1 will not be made worse, appreciably, because, from the nature of its channel, its discharge area will increase at least as fast as the hydraulic radius. The increase flow through this...
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Rock exposed at low water must also be removed from the narrow channel on the left. The amount of submerged rock requiring removal can only be roughly estimated. The cost per yard for removal at this place will exceed that at any other place. No...
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