Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-06-14

NNN''No W So'b4'NiS liIC III 81 !.
miles Of improved navigation.
comprehending LOG miles Of ca.
ha'' Sl,lO6,OOO o.
From the Treasurer's report.
and other documents, it will be
seen that the resources to meet
this expenditure consisted, on the
lst May, Of cash, to the amount
o' jOS,j;. e.
ed stock, to the-amount of Gle -, G,
TO which, adding the sum TO
be received from the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail Road Company,
after dsducting therefrom the
amount presumed to be necessa.
ry TO graduate the residue Of the
4 Ito miles of that road, not al.
reauy charsed' 10000 W
And there arises an aggregate
fund OF 8I,a9j, lOi 81
to provide for tue preceding expenditure. s,
that there will remain, alter completn, al ,.e
works under contract, after complying with lvs
Of the conditions on which the subscrinon ol ,Es
State Of Virginia was granted The acconmod,.
ton Of the river boats near Opeccon, and at SarO
herdstown. and after adding four miles Of canal
and a towing path of three miles, to tie object,
Of expenditure, contemplated, at the date Of III,
fourth annual report, the sum of 8lS9, IO4 81,
cents. to be applied to the future extension Of Ii.
canal.
1t would have been more consonant with d..
ptun nj nj oh tho e A.
canal hitherto recommended, to have reserves,
for It's immediate extension above the DAM aear
Opeccon, to the mouth Of Cacapon, the one tun
dred thousand dollars here applied to the fg,
miles Of canal, and three miles Of towing p,A,
above, or along Galloway's cliffs. But coH*
quence must have thence resulted. which d.
Board would not at any time have permitted b,
for the possible incompetency Of the funds Of TX
| company; that Of separating the horses from 4.
boats which they track, for distance Of sera
miles, between two distinct canals along the p
tomac. To avoid this, tow.path must hiH
been made for this entire distance, at a cost, f
a part Of the way at least, exceeding that Of ti
nal; and at the hazard Of exposing To imuD'ri
danger, any canal, which might be hereafter
made, along this space. by cutting off the sfos.
ing timber from the river banks, along an algvI
bottom Of more than two miles in extent lib.
transfer of the locks from a punt above, TO 90.
about the same distance below the mouth Of
Opeccon, will also favor The contemplated n,'t
CATION from that stream, whenever the canal
along the base of the cliffs shall be completed,
by exposing the boats which descend from 70
mouth to shorter voyage on the broad bed q
the river, in conformity, as has been suggested
with one of the conditions of the late 'rg1a
subscription, which the Board duly regarded =
Assuming, in round numbers, the sum oil
S189.O00 to be the surplus of the present re-
sources of the Company, applicable to the I9'
Their extension of the canal to the mouth Of u
capon, and considering it adequate to 40 'min''
date preparation for commencing that suhdn'
sion, tie Board have directed q location, survey
and estimate to be made of this part Of the east
ern section Of theeanal, preparatory to us con-
structi0n.
Alo11weh the above sum is obviously lhao''
qu< HE completion Of this Subdivision 70
Gu it does, a distance Of ipedym.
nj competent to supply The mean, ~
pra e. (Ne delay of year, BY preparing
foundations of the dam at Cacapcn, aud Of uE
abutments and piers Of such aquedueI' as can
begun and prosecuted with most economy a.
lowest stage of the water Of the Potomac WI"
usually occurs late in the last month Of Tue sun
mer and the first of the autumn. y, this stag
Of the report, il is proper 10 review the cost
the Canal already constructed, or in progress,
order to form, with some degree Of ae:dracy'H
estimate OF the future cost Of that which rsmsia
to be Begun; and to consider, and il praeoa
Ole, to kovIde the means Of its completion
least th8ugh the whole exten. It's ea''''N
and, if possible, OF its western section; to e'.
mence which, authority has recently been ga,
ed by two Of the parties to the charter Of
Company, Virginia and Maryland, at The eaf'''
suggestion Of Pennsylvania.
The President and Directors have. on al @"
sions invited the most rigid scrutiny OF The w.
Gus works of the Canal. on the part OF the Wv
eminent Of the United States; but since the
spection and report Of two scientific ofiesr,
high rank in the army. Col. Albert and Col Ma
ney, Of the 18th Of June. 1881, they have o..
until recently, been able 10 obtain the apPDes,
ment Of an engineer Of the United s'a@'
that purpose =.
On the 9th Of May, the Board repeated az
the interval ola year, an application tor 'a1.a
examination, through the Secretary Of The i.'i
sary, who, BY a special act Congress, IS u'A'
the proxy Of the United States.
To that letter. the annexed answer was rs,'.J