Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-07-14

FREE PRESS reporter was permitted
M onday to make an extract from the an
nual report of Major Nj. b. Adams U. S.
A., engineer in charge of this district. IL
relates to the government improvements
of shoals in the st. Lawrence river and
Ogdensburg harbor and of rivers and her-
bors in Lake Champlan, New York and
Vermont.
The act OF Aug II 1888, provided for a
survey of the shoals between Sister island
and Cross Over light st. Lawrence river,
which was submitted July 2, 1880, and the
entire improvement was estimated to cost
S43, 345. A later act in 1890 appropriated
$4,000 for this work and a contract for the
nmoval of ths upper and lower shoals has
been pledged and the work will be begun
the last of the present week.
The project of improving Ogdensburg
barber was adopted in 1890 and contem-
plates the deepening of the various channels
leading from the deep water OF tho st. Law
renee river and that along the city front so
as to afford depth of II feet at extreme
low water. The estimated cost is Tl5S, $50.
The contract under the appropriation; name
ly, sac, 600, OF 1890, which has been let, will
be completed this fall. The total amount
expended on this harbor from tho date Of
the first appropriation in 1882 tc June 80,
1892, has been STA, 440. 49,
The construction of breakwater, about
1000 feet i'll length, at Rouses Point was
started in 1888, at estimated cost of
$4,000. The work has been in progress
since, and some /, 100 fee3 of the break
water is constructed and the good effects of
it are apparent
The Improvement of the Great Chazy
river. at tho estimated cost Of SIS, 900, and
for which $40, 900 was appropriated under
the act of 1880 was par italy completed
during the past season.
The construction OF the break wator at
Gordou's Landing was begun in August,
1887 ard completed last September. The
structure is 60 feet in length. Some $4,000
was expended in the completion last year
The first appropriation for the improve
nent of Pittsburgh harbor was made in
1896. The project then adopted, with sub
sequcnt notifications, has resulted il the
construction Of 1850 lineal feet
Operations are in progress for repairing
the superstructure of the existing break
water and prolonging it 300 feet northward,
fer which S32, 500 was appropriated in 1890.
The total amount expended on thi. har Dor
up to June 80, 1892 was $40, 404. G. of
which So, 224 &c has been expended since
1870
The improvement to the Burlington har-
Dor also dates from 1896. The increasing
commercial and shipping business of the city
have made notifications from the original
plans necessary from time to time in order
to give adequate protection to the shipping
interests of the barber. Operations during
tue past year consisted of repairing 1000
!iueal feet of the breakwater superstructure.
The total amount expended to date has been
1866 1921.
The project for the formation OF a chan
mel OF navgable width in Otter creek, from
Nergennes TO the lake, was recommended in
1879. at cost of S5S, lac. 1t was twice
modified, and $4,000 was appropriated for it
in 1890, which has been expended as proposed.
There has beeu expended 81, 800 to June
30, 1892. The stream now requires some
2G00 cubic yards of rock excavation to
carry out the original scheme.
Tic0ndercga river has also been improved,
the adoption of the project dating from
1881. Its object was to afford channel
of ravigable width and least depth of
eight feet. The original estimated cost of the
Improvement was az, SIG. An appropra-
ton of $4,000, September, 1890, has been
expended in the dredging and removal OF
Sl32 cubic yards of material from shoals
near the mouth Of the river
Major Adams has asked for appropria-
tons for tine work at different places, and
il is expected that the pending river and
harbor bill viii, in most CAGES, supply the
amounts asked fer. Work will then be re-
sumed, as soon as the contracts can be
placed. The recommendations are: For the
completion of the dredging Of the shoals in
the ST. Lawrence, S3S, 300 to continue i'm
provements at Ogdensburg harbor, 500 900;
TO complete the construction OF the break
water at Rouscs Point, SO, 900; and the
dredging in the Great Chazy river, $4,000;
for completion Of improvements at Otter
Creek $40, 600. Nothing was requested for
Improvements at Flattsburg or this city.