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by diking and dredging a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water from the Center Street Bridge to Newark Bay, at a cost of $232,875.

This project was modified in 1884, pursuant to the river and harbor act of that year, providing for extending the dike at the mouth of the river into the bay, a distance of 12,000 feet, and for dredging a channel across the shoal in Newark Bay 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water, increasing the original estimate to $353,875.

The amount expended to June 30, 1892, was $233,692.18.

With this amount 6,205 feet of dike had been built and maintained, the channel through the shoal in the bay and the channel up the river as far as Lister Dock dredged to the required dimensions, and a bar above the Zinc Works Dock removed to the required depth, with a width of 120 feet for a distance of 1,600 feet up stream. A survey made in December, 1892, shows that the above conditions have been fairly well maintained.

The work done during the fiscal year consisted in making a survey of Newark Bay from Bayonne, N. J., to the Newark and New York Railroad Bridge, and of the river from Baeder and Adamson Dock to Center Street Bridge, Newark, and in dredging under a contract with P. Sanford Ross, for the removal of about 60,000 cubic yards of material from the channel in the river between Center Street Bridge and Lister Dock, Newark. Work under the contract was begun June 14 and was in progress at the close of the fiscal year, 11,294 cubic yards having been removed at that date. The expenditures during the year amount to $2,591.06, for surveying, inspection, and administration.

b. Above Newark.-Before its improvement was undertaken the upper part of the river had a navigable 6-foot channel, except at Middle, Belleville, Rutherford Park, and Holzman Bars, where the depths were 4.5 feet, 3.9 feet, 3 feet, and 3.5 feet, respectively.

The project of improvement was adopted in 1872, and provided for a channel across and above the shoals from 73 to 6 feet deep, mean low water, and from 200 to 50 feet wide, to be obtained by dredging and diking at a cost of $123,924. It was modified in 1885 by extending the channel below Middle Bar 1,500 feet to the Erie Railroad Bridge, increasing the estimate to $129,000, which was further increased in 1886 to $133,762. A further modification, to include the removal of Third River Bar, the redredging of bars formed by freshets, and removal of bowlders at various points in the river, increasing the estimate to $193,822, was approved October 6, 1890.

The amount expended to June 30, 1892, was $135,677.06, with which channels had been dredged to the requisite depth, with widths of from 60 to 75 feet, a channel through Third River Bar dredged to the required depth, with width of 100 feet for a distance of 800 feet, and below this bar the channel was increased in width by 40 feet, with the same depth for a distance of 700 feet, and by 20 feet for a further distance of 245 feet, giving a continuous channel through this reach having a width of 100 feet and depth of 6 feet, mean low water.

The expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, amount to $2,807.91, and operations were confined to dredging at Belleville and Rutherford Park bars, under a contract entered into with James McSpirit, of Jersey City, September 24, 1892. Work began October 5, 1892, and is still in progress, 5,200 cubic yards of material having been removed to date. Under this contract the channel through Belleville Bar was completed to the required width of 100 feet and mean low

water depth of from 6 to 7 feet, by the removal of 2,105 cubic yards of material.

The commerce of the entire river for the calendar year 1892 is reported to be 1,362,647 tons.

As the river and harbor act approved July 13, 1892, makes the appropriation for the two reaches of the river under one heading, the following consolidated money statement for Passaic River is presented: July 1, 1892, balance unexpended:

Below Newark.

Above Newark.

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892..

$5, 807.82
3, 172. 94

$8, 980.76 45,000.00

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July 1, 1893, balance available......

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1895 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix F 6.)

124, 347.00 60,000.00

7. Elizabeth River, New Jersey. This stream, which is 2g miles in length from its mouth to the head of navigation, at Broad street, Elizabeth, has a width of from 50 to 90 feet, and before its improvement the wharves in the city could only be reached at high water by vessels drawing less than 4 feet; its commerce was estimated at 45,000 tons annually. The range of the tide was about 4.7 feet at its mouth and 3.4 feet at Bridge street.

The project for the improvement was adopted in 1878 and provides for obtaining, by dredging, a channel 60 feet wide and 7 feet deep at high water from the mouth of the river to the head of navigation, at an estimated cost of $25,530; this was increased in 1882 to $43,160, the increase being due to advanced prices.

The amount expended under this project to June 30, 1892, was $31,886.20.

With this amount the channel had been dredged in 1883 to the required depth to within 1,000 feet of Broad Street Bridge, but soon became obliterated by reason of deposits of silt and sewage refuse. It was redredged in 1891, shoals being removed from the river at the bend above South street, at South Street Bridge, at John street, at the bend in the river below John street, and at the New York and Long Branch Railroad Bridge to a depth of 7 feet at mean high water, with widths of 30 to 50 feet, giving a 7-foot mean high-water channel with widths varying from 30 to 50 feet from the mouth of the river to within 900 feet of Bridge Street Bridge, in the town of Elizabeth.

A survey made in November, 1892, indicates a channel from 30 to 50 feet wide, extending from the mouth to Bridge Street Bridge, the head of navigation, with mean high-water depths of from less than 5 feet to more than 7 feet.

No active operations have been in progress during the fiscal year, as no bids were received in response to public advertisement of February 18, 1893, inviting sealed proposals for dredging, at date of opening, March 29, 1893. It is expected that an advantageous offer may be received for doing the work by hired labor, later in the season.

The commerce of the river for the calendar year 1892 is reported to be 39,575 tons against 36,225 tons for 1891.

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended ...

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892

June 30, 1893, amount expended during fiscal year..........

July 1, 1893, balance unexpended...............

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1895 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix F 7.)

$113.80 5,000.00

5, 113. 80 467.26

4, 646. 54

6, 160.00

6, 160.00

8. Rahway River, New Jersey.—In its original condition the Rahway River had a depth of 8 feet and more at mean high water from its mouth to Bricktown, 3ğ miles; 7 feet to Edgar Dock, 43 miles; 4.4 feet to Milton Avenue Bridge, 43 miles; and 4 feet to Main Street Bridge, 5 miles, in the town of Rahway. Its commerce was estimated at 120,000 tons, and three attempts had been made to establish a line of steamboats on the river, but had failed on account of the bad condition of the stream.

The original project for its improvement was adopted in 1878, and provides for dredging a channel 125 feet wide and 8 feet deep at high water from Bricktown to Milton Avenue Bridge, and 100 feet wide from that point to Main Street Bridge, at an estimated cost of $66,250.

The amount expended on this improvement to June 30, 1892, was $37,000.

With the above amount the channel had been given a depth of 7 feet at mean high water and width of from 100 to 50 feet to within 550 feet of the head of navigation.

There has been no appropriation for this work since 1882 and there have been no funds for expenditure since the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890. The channels have reverted nearly to their original condition.

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. $29, 250.00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1895 29,250.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix F 8.)

9. Raritan River, New Jersey.-Before its improvement by the United States the Raritan River had a depth of 8.5 feet at "The Stakes," 3 miles; of 6.5 feet at the "Middle Grounds," 4 miles; of 7.5 feet at Whitehead Sand Dock, 8 miles; and between this point and New Brunswick, 12 miles above the mouth, the channel was obstructed by a number of rocky shoals, with depths of from 8.4 to 6.9 feet at mean low water. The city of New Brunswick and the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which terminates here, together with extensive brickyards on the South River, did a large commerce, estimated in 1871 at 3,053,857 tons per annum,

The present project was adopted in 1874, and provides for obtaining by diking and dredging, and where necessary by drilling and blasting rock, a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep, mean low water, from the mouth to New Brunswick, at a cost of $2,093,662.05. It was modified in 1881, pursuant to the river and harbor act of that year, by adding to it the dredging of the South Channel, about 13,000 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 5 feet deep at mean low water, from Kearney Dock to Crab Island.

The amount expended to June 30, 1892, under this project was $555,489.18.

The above amount was expended in the construction and maintenance of certain dikes required by the project at "The Stakes" and "Middle Ground," in dredging channels 200 feet wide and 12 feet deep at mean low water at these points, and in blasting and dredging a channel of the same dimensions across the rocky shoal at Whitehead Sand Dock, and thence up the river with a width of 100 feet and depth of 10 feet to within 2,280 feet of the canal lock at New Brunswick. Under two special allotments made for it in the acts of March 3, 1881, and August 2, 1882, the South Channel was dredged to the required depth for a distance of 4,000 feet. These improvements have been of great benefit to navigation, permitting the large tows in use on the river to reach a point 2,280 feet below New Brunswick at all stages of the tide. The commerce of the river is reported for the calendar year 1892 to be 1,120,302 tons, against 1,566,888 tons for 1891.

The expenditures during the fiscal year amount to $21,877.09. With this amount the channel has been given a width of 100 feet and depth of about 10 feet, at mean low water, for a distance of 400 feet, through a river bed of extremely hard shale rock, bringing the 100-foot channel to within 1,880 feet of the canal lock at New Brunswick; the channel to Acken Dock redredged to a width of 50 feet and depth of 6 feet at mean low water, for a distance of about 600 feet, and repairs to the dikes at the "Middle Grounds" completed.

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Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project ..
Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30,

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Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix F 9.)

100, 000. 00

10. South River, New Jersey.-Before the improvement of this stream was undertaken by the United States the navigation of the lower 24 miles of its course had been abandoned and a private canal dredged from near Washington to Sayreville, on the Raritan River. In 1880, when the present project for improving the river was adopted, the mouth of this canal, on account of its faulty location, had shoaled considerably. Above Washington a depth of 2.7 feet existed to Bissetts, 3ğ miles, and of 2.5 feet to Old Bridge, the head of navigation, 64 miles above the mouth of the canal at Sayreville.

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The project adopted in 1880 provided for closing the river below the head of the canal, correcting the direction of the mouth of the latter and obtaining by diking and dredging a depth of 8 feet, mean low water, to Washington, & feet to Bissetts, and 4 feet to Old Bridge, straightening the channel at two points by cutting across the meadow; estimated to cost $194,695. This was modified July 30, 1892, by omitting the proposed cut-off and dikes and substituting therefor the dredging of the river between Washington and the Raritan River Railroad Bridge, removing 39,000 cubic yards of material, reducing the original estimate to $176,975.

The amount expended under this project to June 30, 1892, was $69,552.87.

With this amount the direction of the mouth of the canal had been. changed, the dikes below Washington completed and maintained, a small amount of dredging done on a shoal above Washington, a shoal at the mouth of Washington Canal removed, and a channel dredged 60 feet wide through the canal and 50 feet wide across the shoal in the river below Washington. The channel below the draw of the Raritan River Railroad Bridge was given a depth of 4 feet at mean low water, with additional width of 25 feet for a distance of 350 feet, and for a like distance above the bridge the width was increased to 70 feet. At Rourke Reach the channel was given a depth of 6 feet at mean low water, and width of 60 feet for a distance of 860 feet; in addition a bar opposite Whitehead's brickyard was removed to a depth of 8 feet at mean low water, and width of 60 feet for a distance of 450 feet, and at the junction of the canal and South River a channel was excavated 350 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 6 feet deep at mean low water.

The expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, amount to $6,486.10. With this amount the channel was given a depth of 6 feet at mean low water, with widths of from 50 to 100 feet for a distance of 1,850 feet, extending from the Turnpike Bridge and connecting with a channel of similar depth, existing as far as the Raritan River Railroad Bridge; a width of 100 feet being maintained for the first 200 feet of its length, 75 feet for an additional 585 feet, and 50 feet for the remainder.

The present condition of the river is such that it may be navigated at any stage of the tide by vessels of 6 feet draft for a distance of about 3 miles above its-mouth.

The commerce of the river was reported for the calendar year 1891 to be 370,335 tons and for the calendar year 1892 it is given as 162,462 tons.

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Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... 98, 975.00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1895 30,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix F 10.)

11. Keyport Harbor, New Jersey.-Keyport Harbor was originally accessible at low water only to vessels drawing less than 4 feet. Before its improvement was undertaken by the United States a 6-foot channel

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