The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-01
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soft blue mud, with exceptions, where il is
mixed with sand and shells
IL is supposed that dredging operations can be
carried on for 229 days In the year without inter
ruption from the weather, after making fair allow
ance for other casualties and for SUNDAYS.
! 1t is required to perform the whole work in one
year after the machinery, &C., is prepared To
| 90 this by dredging there will be required steam
| dredging machines and vessels capable of dis i.
charging about 1000 cubic yards of mud per day,
complete IN all their parts and appurtenances and
| euPplied with cabins, all requisite store rooms
storage for fuel, cables, anchors, boats &C.. and
tne requisite number of scows, with hoppers to hold
rom 50 to lou cubic yards each.
proposals will be received at the Engineer De-
parlment, Washington, until the 10Th day of
Niarcn, 1893 for the execution of this work, under
one or the other of the following propositions:
LIST. To clear out the entire length and dentb of
| Ihe channels through the Choctaw Pass and the
Exerlor Passes, or separate portions thereof fur
alsning an the necessary machinery, vessels, ten
ders, and labor. at 30 much per cubic yard of ma
terlal lifted and deposited at distance from the
edge OF the channel, not less than $50 yards
"a. Iofurnlsh vessels, machinery, &C., ready for
the WORK TO the Engineer Department at Mobile;
which vessels, machinery, &C., shall be tested to
the satisfaction of the officers in charge of the
work, and at the expense of the contractor before
being received; full specifications will be required
win oetails Tor the machinery, vessels, and scows;
embracing materials, dimensions, tonnage, power
OF engine, and pressure of steam, diameter of CYL
lnder; length of stroke, principle of excavatiner
machinery, whether patented, where now in use,
and by whom; cost of ATTACHING propeiline power
and Its arrangement. Drawings are desirable
whenever they can be furnished.
3D. 10 work the vessels and machinery supplied
by the United States at stated price per cubic
yard; keeping every thing ia repair
4tb To embrace the last two propositions in one:
In which case the machinery, vessels, &C., would
remain the property of the United States after the
work was completed
The right ofrejecting all the offers which NAV be
made is reserved
The Engineer Department to exercise the ueces-
sary supervision. through its agents, to secure the
que progress OF the work and its faithful perform
ance; and to reserve to itself the right of annul-
ing the contract at any time should the holder or
holders OF 1t fail to fulfil its conditions.
DOC, SzS CUBIC yards are assumed to be the guam.
MY OF mud necessary to be removed in order to
obtain clear depth of twelve and half feet of
water, with well-defned width of three hundred
feet, on line OF twelve thousand seven hundred
yards, in the aforementioned channels and this
number TO be paid for, whether it prove, on the
completion OF the work to its full width and DEPTH
greater or lesser quantity.
The Engineer Department may find it necessary
70 limit the width OF the proposed channel to one
nundreo and nifty feet, IN which case one-half of
the stated number of cubic wards will be assumed
as the number to be paid for.
No advances of money will be made by the En-
glneer department under any circumstances what
Payments proportionate to the amount of work
cone Will be made monthly, on the certificate of
the local agents that due diligence has been used
IN prosecuting the work. that no interruption TO
Its daily progress has occurred save that incident
to Sundays bad weather, epidemcal diseases, or
unavoidable arrangement of machinery, not due
to radical defects in construction quality of ma
terlal The quantity paid for must have been ta-
Ken from section completely excavated to the
depth required
Twenty per cent. will be reserved from all paw
ments due. The accruing sums to be finally paid
to the contractors on the completion of the work,
or to be forfeited TO the United States in case of
failure of the same.
All proposals must be accompanied by testimo-
mails Of high character to the competency of the
proposer to execute the work offered for the rela-
billty of the suretes must also be manifested The
envelopes should be endorsed Proposals for the
improvement of the Harbor of Mobile Alabama
For further particulars address Major w H.
CHASE, Corps of Engineers, Mobile, Alabama.
JOS. G. TOTEM,
Brevet Brig. Gen. and Colonel Engineers
To be inserted in the Republic, Intelligencer,
and Union, Washington Mobile Advertiser Mo-
bile, Alabama; Louisiana State Republican New
Orleans Bulletin, and New Orleans Bee, New Or
leans, La; Albany Register, and Albany Express,
Albany, N. Y; Courier and Enquirer. and Ex-
press, New York; Wing, Troy N. Y. Pennsyl-
yania inquirer, and Daily News, Philadelphia
Boston Courier, Boston; Patriot, Baltimore Md
daily for two weeks; one copy of each paper con-
tanning the advertisement to be sent to the Engi-
neer Department. Jan 20-d2w