The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-07-20
ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT.
Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners.
Chief Engineers Report.

pleted except enlargement Longwood
station 1875 Roach,
difficulties attending construction
unusual completed. very
located pits cannot be
drained a very
came the at this November
tractors suspend of
month and the conditions have been such
work since then but they will do at the earliest
sble
July 81 1906 contracts were awarded to Lowrance
Bros Co., for various pieces of evee aggegatng about
O00o0) million cubic yards The consisted
banquette, enlargement
from % IS proviso
for all remaining o be March st,
15 1906 contract was awarded to Lowrance
Co., per yard charging
the evee Filters from station 1856 to 4o2e amounting
| $50 cubic yards.
19, 1906, a to
Gilehrist % cubic
the foot of Lake Jackson from station 200 PHO
ing 1853 yards.
On December II, 1906, 7.
Shields z yard
in bend Immediately above Greenve station 1912
1922, amounting 2o5 900 cubic yards
April %, 1907, a o Duaney
Foote % 24100 cubic yard building a
Duvals station to 1921 amounting to
900 cubic yards
ed to Dulaney &Foote furnish
needed repairs the
The price per per day price per
team to include labor implements and all equipage
The hinderances the past
great.
rlna ana the continued hgh stage OF the river In many
localities it has been impossible
January necessarily
pended portion of the time high
water, where the a
under such disadvantages that little
accomplished
The accompanying number of cubic
yards placed and to be placed each
The total levee by the during
twelve months ending July 1907,
cubic yards and the work under contract remaining be done
amounts S21,60S cubic yards
The total levee during
the twelve months ending June 1s 1907 amounted 30
9oS cubic yards and the work under
926.2S3 cubic yards.
The total by Board and Gov
eminent during the o7o,S95 cubic
yards, remaining during
the coming 1,747,s91 cubic yards.
The expenditures levees in
Guiding high water protection during the Y months ending
June l. 1907 amounted $40.
The expenditures revetment
works during the twelve 1907,
follows Bolivar. s1o,2647O; $52o2131; Green
vile s24S76S7 Longwood $2.7o8.48; Filters s7s57;
gregaing sS9,942.43.
Government funds available for levee purposes dur
Ing the just begun nearly all which
sumed by $401
The Government funds available purposes
during the coming follows: Bolivar s382767G
Greenvlle, $17S793; Longwood s2794307; Filters 49,
78071 general repairs aggregatin S177788 A.
The total levee revet-
purposes during the season lust commenced amount o
$579,493,36
The revetment work as
it was for evee construction and considerable
work Of that class that had been
The revetment at the head was originally
placed IN 1888. and the
deteriOrated
necessary replace portion the present
type OF acine mattress during
the cid work will be replaced by new work this
/ The water this year which eliminated February was
the second highest that has
this district The only other
being that which occurred high water Of 1897
was of greater magnitude did
did That which occurred this
cTevasses and consequent OF
from the channel in S97 This
on either side OF the river and
passed between the evees
The height reached by the year carefully
observed and recorded
and this data perhaps the
time for determining levee grades.
The accompanying shows present grade
evee throughout the district
| Of 1903 and
There four distinct flood cul-
minated at Greenvie follows: February
the April Z, at Ais feet; May % June
81. at 35.4
The the protection this
amounted s329s2.sO Compared expendi-
lures during previous high waters this
together with the successful largely
thorough organization which had carefully
advance In selecting to place
for other important positions
the services of those of ability
high work. and it is pleasure energy
good judgement displayed who
held responsible positions
The Government engineers under Captain
G. NJ Hoffman, Corps of Engineers u s. A.,
the Levee Boards forces during high work
done by them confined principally