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EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DURING THE
SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
1869-'70.
IN THIRTEEN VOLUMES.
Volume 1 No. 1. Navy and Postmaster General.
Volume 2 No. 1. War: Parts 1...
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41ST CONGRESS, 2d Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Ex. Doc. 1, pt. 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...
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APPENDIX V.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., July 31, 1869.
GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report of my official operations during the fiscal year eliding June 30, 1869 : The operations have been conducted under the following...
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am the engineer of the twelfth and thirteenth light-house districts and a member of the board of engineers for the Pacific Coast.
The operations under the above-named appropriations will be described in the order named.
SURVEY OF MILITARY...
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confined to dredging on Swan Island Bar, and the bar at the mouth of the Willamette River, as well as removing snags at each of the above-mentioned localities. Surveys of the Willamette Slough and of the month of the Willamette River were also...
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This actually occurred, and by comparing the last survey (accompanying this report) with those previously made iii 1867 and 1868, it will be seen that the current washed out the sand so as to make a channel carrying 12 feet of water iii places...
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Francisco weekly for Portland. A large number of sailing vessels also ply between these two ports.
8. No proposals were invited (luring the year, as the work is not being done by contract, but by the United States, by means of hired labor. 9...
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the satisfactory completion of the work. Mr. Townsend also presented another proposition. These propositions were submitted to the Chief of Engineers for his decision. At the end of this fiscal year no decision had been made in the matter....
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Bar, and a channel 3,200 feet long, carrying 15 feet of water at the lowest stage of the river, was completed (hiring this year. This year it is expected to nearly complete Swan Island Bar, excavated to 18 feet of water, at an estimated cost of...
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of Engineers for 1867, page 5O9.) According to that letter it would also enable boats to reach Priest's Rapids, in the Columbia; but, as there is no settlement at or near Priest's Rapids, I see no necessity of boats going there.
ROCK CREEK...
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As it would have taken many weeks more to have drilled another hole in the rock, we concluded to see what effect a surface blast would produce ; a cartridge, containing five pounds of giant powder, was then placed under water, and under an...
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for removing the debris, making a total of $2S 09 per cubic yard. The various rocks in the rapids to be removed will measure 5,934 cubic yards, which at a cost of $28 09 per cubic yard would require $166,686 06 to be appropriated for this purpose....
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following as the amount already received and expended since the first of July last :
On hand July 1,1868 $1.0,1651x;
Received during the fiscal year
Total amount on hand and received 10,11;5 16;
Expended and to be expended during the...
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following as the amount already received and expended since the first of July last :
On hand July 1,1868 $1.0,1651x;
Received during the fiscal year
Total amount on hand and received 10,11;5 16;
Expended and to be expended during the...
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the operation of dredging is greatly retarded by the presence of innumerable snags, one of which (recently excavated) measured six feet in diameter by forty feet in length. The time occupied in removing one of these snags would be sufficient to...
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Defenses at the month of the Columbia River, Oregon, in charge of Major George H. Mendell, brevet colonel United States Army.-During the year
extensive repairs were made on Fort Stevens. The scarp revetment, which was much decayed, was removed,...
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magazines at Cape Disappointment exhibit signs of decay. Arrangements have been made to construct a fire-proof powder-house for storage of powder. The condition of the works both at Fort Stevens and Cape Disappointment is good.
No appropriation...
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RIVER'S AND HARBORS ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
Officer in charge, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel R. S. -Williamson, major corps of engineers, assisted by first Lieutenant Wm. H. Heuer, corps of engineers
1. Improvement of the Willamette River, below....
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is 3,200 feet. The estimate of the cost of deepening Swan Island Bar to eighteen feet was based on the supposition that the cost of dredging at a depth. between fifteen and eighteen feet would not vary materially from the cost of the previous...
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War Department. Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. Index Map River and Harbor Works Seattle, Wash. District 1912. Scale of Statute Miles. In two sheets - Sheet 1. H. Doc. 740, 63-2 (To face page 1656.)
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