Report of the Mississippi River CommissionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 - Mississippi River |
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Aitkin allotted Amount expended Approximate elevation Assistant Engineer Atchafalaya Atchafalaya rivers average Balance unexpended bank of river barges bench marks Bend Blazed trees boat boiler bolt in tile Cairo cap on pipe Caruthersville caving cent channel completed construction contract contractors Corps of Engineers cost cribs cubic yards dikes Direct Donaldsonville dredge Elevation bolt Elevation cap extended feet long feet wide fence gauge Greenville harbor high water Hopefield inches June 30 Lake Lake Borgne left bank length levee board Levee district linear feet low-water mattress mean low water Memphis meters meters back meters south meters west miles Minn Mississippi River Commission Monticello Northern Pacific Railway Orleans pine plant plates Point Pleasant precise leveling protection pump repairs Reverse revetment road season Section side slope spur dikes stage Stations stone survey Tensas Tile and pipe tion Total towing upper wire Wolf River
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Page 3351 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That...
Page 3352 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 3469 - If the threads are found to be not horizontal, they will be made so by turning the telescope a small amount in the wyes. When the thread wires have once been made horizontal, small screws which abut against projection of wye above elevating screw should be so adjusted that when they press against this projection the wires are horizontal. If the vertical thread is then inclined, as shown by the plumb line attached to the rod, it must remain so. To...
Page 3354 - Any doubt as to the meaning of these specifications will be explained by the engineer, who shall have the right to correct any errors or omissions in them when such correction is necessary for the proper fulfillment of their intention. Whenever the word "commissioners" is used in these specifications, it is understood to designate the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Whenever the word "engineer...
Page 3352 - Tennessee; the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for repairing the damage which was done by the flood of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven to the revetment work which was built by the United States Government in eighteen hundred and ninety-five along the...
Page 3351 - Improving Mississippi River, from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, Including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission...
Page 3342 - Louis was not reached until about the middle of October. Here the cabin work and the remaining alterations were pushed as rapidly as possible, but the dredge could not be completed in time to be of any use in the field. These alterations were practically completed in December, and the dredge was towed from St. Louis to winter quarters at West Memphis. All work contemplated is now about completed, except placing the outfit on the boat. The dredge will probably be tried in June. When fully equipped...
Page 3469 - To make the level and vertical axis of revolution perpendicular to each other, loosen the small clamp screw at one end of the horizontal bar fastened to the vertical axis and by means of the elevating screw raise or lower that end of the upper horizontal bar until the telescope can be rotated 180 degrees from any position and have the level reading the same in both positions.
Page 3468 - It may also be determined by means of another levelling rod, the graduations of which commence at the foot of the rod, by determining the height of the instrument above some fixed point and subtracting it from the reading of the rod to be determined. The relative lengths of the rods must be known. Whenever a...
Page 3469 - In placing the foot plates great care should be taken that they be horizontal, on firm ground, and not liable to change. The surface of the ground, if not firm or level, should be removed.