The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-23
PROPOSALS FOR DREDGE-BOATs.
" AR DEPARTMENT

| NAR DEPARrMENT
BUREAU CoRPs ToPuGaAPHICAL ENGIHEEas
| 4. December 3, 1852
PROPOSALS will be received until aud iuclud
L ing the 10th day Of next February, for the
construction. OF four steam drcdge-t tie, to be
| worked by high pressure engines, viz:
One for Lake Champlain, 10 be delivered, in
spected and received AT White Hall Hurtor, on
| Lake Cbampain.
One for Lake Ontario, to be delivered il spec,
| ed, and received at Oswego, on Lake Ontario.
One for Lake Erie, to be delivered. inspected,
and received at Erie, on Lake Erie.
One for Lake Michigan, to be delivered in
| spected. and received at Chicago, Illinois.
The hull of each boat to be ITO feet long. 80 feet
beam, with guards 7 feet wide, sufficient for buck
et-ladder and paddle wheels, to draw when
! equipped not exceeding feet If water.
To have two cylindrical boilers, made Of the bes t
| boiler iron quarter of an inch in thickness,
tw' nty two feet long, and forty inches in diameter
| each.
| The working cylinders of the engine 10 be
twelve inches diameter inside, not less than half
| an inch thickness of metal, and to have length
of stroke of four feet with half stroke cut off.
Each boat to have paddle wheels for locomo-
ton, with suitable accommodation for the officers
| and hands required to maneuvre and work the
| boat, say captain, mate, pilot, engineer. and
| twelve bands; also suitably constructed coal
| bunkrrs for about fifty tons of coal.
| No advance will be made on a contract, nor will
| n boat be received or paid for until after it has
been inspected and tried, and found to meet the
| terms OF contract.
/
cared yawl boat, % feet long, and with four good
oars, and also a suitable yawl. boat and oars for
assisting in weighing anchor.
| The boat will be inspected in reference to
engagements, materials, and equipment, and will
| be subject TO the following trial:
| lst. AS to locomotive power. 1t will have to
| move not less than 100 miles in calm weather, on
the waters of each lake respectively, in consecu-
| tive hours, at a rate of not less than six miles
| the hour.
I'd. As to dredging power. It will have to raise
| ~h,r f,,tn
yards the hour; Of q loose mixture of clay and
| sand, part sand and 2 parts clay, not less than
| 100 cubic yards the hour; of pure clay, so cubic
yards the hour; of tenacious clay, and of sand and
| gravel 60 cubic yards the hour from a depth of
| not less than 10 nor exceeding II feet.
This must be the continued work of the boat
during 10 hours, and not an average during any
shorter title OF work.
Each boat will have to be supplied with an an
Choir of not less than 800 lbs, and too kedge an
chors Of 200 lbs. each; and with adequate chain
| cable of not less than 10 fathoms long, of iron.
| Aso a Inch hemp cable 100 fathoms long.
| The trials will be under pressure of steam for
dredging not exceeding 80 pounds the square
inch; for locomotion not exceeding l5Opounds the
| square inch.
| The trials and inspection to be made by Uni
| ted States agent
The boats to be ready at the places stated by the
| last day of May next.
! Proposals will at the came time be received for
four dischargng scows for each dredge- boat, each
| scow to be provided with two good sweeps, and
with bottoms 30 arranged as to dif charge the whole
load at once. Each boat capable of holding not
less than 40 tons of excavated soil.
Proposals to be addressed to the undersigned,
and marked on the envelope proposals for
| Dredge boat"
IL. ALERT,
| Col. Corps Top. Engineers.
The Republic, lnteligencer, and Union, Wash
| ington; Courier and Enquirer, and Express, New
Advertiser. Detroit. Mich; Commercial Aay ST.
| .n'' ~"''..1''' NJ. ~
bany Register, Albany, N. Y, will give the above
February 10.
Dec 9-d2Ot &2awtFeblO
STEAM ENGINE & MA CHINERY AGENCY.
! THE UNDERSIGN NED, w. b. LEONARD and
| more than thirty years manager and agent Of the
| Matteaicdn Embellishments, the latter for many
| years connected with the AIiaire Works Super
| intendent and Engineer, and more recently
perintending Engineer for the Collins Line Of New
York and Liverpool United States Mail Steam
| chips, also the Ocean Steam Navigation Com
pany's, running between New York, Soutbamp-
ton, and Bremen,) having formed coPartner ehlp,
| offer their services consulting engineers and
agents for purchasing or supern ending the con-
| str uction of Paddle wheel and Propeller Steam
| Vessels of every description, Marine Engines and
| Boilers for Ocean River Steamers, Stationary
Engines and Boilers, high or lowVpressure, Loco
| motives, and other Railroad Machinery, Pumping
| Engines and Machinery for Water Works and
Iron Works; Cotton. WooIlen, and Flax Manu-
factories, and Machinery for every description OF
Manufacturing; Corn. Flour, and Saw Mills,
Sugar Mills and Refineries, Quarts Crushing and
ether Mining Machinery, Mill Geering, Shaft
ing and Pullies, every description of Castings,
Wroughtiron Forgings, sc.
Specifications and Contracts prepared Plans and
Detail Drawings furnished, Steam Vessels. Steam
Engines, and other Machinery surveyed and value
thereof estimated,
Second hand Steam Vessels. Steam En- gines and
D.;
far sale.
w. b. LEONARD & E. w. SMITH,
Office rs Merchants Exchange, corner Wall and
Hanover streets, New York.
REFERENCES AT THR NORTH.
E. X. Collins, Agent New York and Liverpool
United States Mail Steamers.
c. Fl. Sand, President Ocean Steam Navigation
Company.
Mortimer Livingston. Agent New York and Havro
United States Mail Steamers.
Ezra Nye, Commander Steamer Pacific.
Joseph J. Comstock. Commander Steamer Baltic.
G. w. Floyd, Commander Steamer Washington.
James P. Alaire, esq, formerly Proprietor of the
| Allaire Works
| Eagle s. Hazard, Merchants, New York.
Peter Cooper, Merchant, New York.
Asa Warrington. Merchant, New York.
JohnG. Winter, Son Co Merchants, New York.
A. o. Parmalee, Merchant, New York.
James Bogardus, Iron Store Builder, New York.
Hazard 4 Monteath, Merchants, Buffalo, New
York.
Dusn q " Hues, blcfCnant5, Boston, MassaChu-
sets.
P. Grnell & Sons, Merchants, Providence, Rhode
Island.
REFERENCES AT THE SOUTH.
J. P. Phillips, Cleveland, Ohio.
J. T. Lemoine, President Mechanics Manulactur-
ing Company, Petersburg, Virginia.
&. p, Mallett, President Rockish Manuiac turing
Company, Fayetteville, North Carolina.
}. g. Cairns, Agent Rowan Manufacturing Com
pany, Salisbury, North Carolina.
William Gregg, President Graniteville Manufac-
turing Company, Charleston, South Carolina.
George w. Winter, Banker, Columbus, Georgia.
Joseph w. Winter. esq, Montgomery, Alabama.
w. J. Ledyard, Merchant, Mobile, Alabama.
Sidney Smith, esq Mobile, Alabama.
Rufus X. Belknap, Manufacturer, Mobile, Ala
bama.
James Saul, ESQ.,, President Commercial Water
Works, New Orleans, Louisiana.
w. w. White, Banker, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Samuel d. Morgan, Merchant, Nashville, Ten
J. G. Amber, esq. jacksonville, Florida.
J. S. Ssnborn, esq, Cofleeville, Mississippi,
Brruil Patrick, Merchants, San Francisco, Cal.