HOUSE DOCUMENTS

78th Congress, 2d Session

(January 10-December 19, 1944)

EXAMINATIONS OF RIVERS
AND HARBORS

VOL. 1

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1944

715778

CONTENTS

No.

387. Survey of Purgatoire (Picket Wire) River, Colo.

421. Report on Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal, Wis.

444. Survey of Loyalhanna Creek at Latrobe, Pa.

445. Report on St. Johns River, Fla., Jacksonville to Lake Harney.

446. Report on coasts of Great Lakes, harbors of refuge.

447. Report on Arkansas River, Kans., Okla., and Ark.

449. Report on Mississippi River at Minneapolis, Minn.

472. Report on Boston Harbor, Mass.

473. Survey of Merced County streams, Calif.

475. Report on Missouri River basin.

494. Survey of Chehalis River and tributaries, Wash.

495. Report on Yellow Creek in vicinity of Middleborough, Ky.

504. Survey of Kentucky River and tributaries, Ky.

505. Survey of Pajaro River, Calif.

506. Report on Chestnut Creek, Va.

507. Report on Turtle Creek, Pa.

509. Report on Mississippi River between Cairo, Ill., and Baton Rouge, La.

513. Survey of Kern River, Calif.

III

LETTER

PURGATOIRE (PICKET WIRE) RIVER, COLO.

FROM THE

TRANSMITTING

SECRETARY OF WAR

A LETTER FROM THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED

STATES ARMY, DATED SEPTEMBER 8, 1943, SUBMIT-

TING A REPORT, TOGETHER WITH ACCOMPANY-

ING PAPERS AND ILLUSTRATIONS, ON A

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION AND SURVEY

OF PURGATOIRE (PICKET WIRE) RIVER,

INCLUDING LONG CANYON, COLO.,

AUTHORIZED BY THE FLOOD CON-

TROL ACTS APPROVED ON JUNE

22, 1936, AND JUNE 28, 1938

JANUARY 26, 1944.-Referred to the Committee on Flood Control

and ordered to be printed with two illustrations

WASHINGTON: 1944

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.