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148 feet wide and 9,800 feet long, through Alligator Creek Shoal, and 37 to 74 feet wide and 7,700 feet long through Brunswick River Shoal; and a channel 40 to 80 feet wide and 18 feet deep at mean low water has been dredged, where shoaling had occurred, 1,649 feet long at New Snows Marsh Channel. The United States suction dredge Woodbury has also dredged 87,915 cubic yards of material from the channel on the bar and redredged 62,730 cubic yards from New Snows Marsh Channel. June 30, 1892, the channel across the bar is somewhat straighter than one year ago and has a minimum depth of 17 feet at mean low water; thence to Wilmington the channel is 16 feet deep at mean low water through all the shoals excepting Lilliput Shoal, where for a distance of 300 feet the minimum depth is 15 feet. The 16-foot channel is 270 feet wide, excepting at Snows Marsh, where it is diminished by shoaling to a width of about 40 feet.

July 1, 1891, balance unexpended...

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year.

$128, 112.-62

91, 762.39

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended

July 1, 1892, outstanding liabilities

36, 350, 23

July 1, 1892, amount covered by uncompleted contracts..

$19,950.52
764.64

20, 715. 16

July 1, 1892, balance available

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892.

15, 635.07 200,000.00

215, 635. 07

Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893..

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project...... Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix L 19.)

101, 392. 00

20. Lockwoods Folly River, North Carolina.-When the United States began this improvement, in 1892, the depth at low water was 5 feet in the shifting channel on its ocean bar, within which the depth was 5 to 12 feet for 14 miles to an expanse of mud flats and beds of oyster rock, over which for 1 miles the river flowed with a width of one-fourth to three-fourths of a mile, and a depth of less than 1 foot at mean low water. A little above these flats was a shoal 300 feet long, upon which at mean low water the depth was 33 feet; thence to Lockwoods Folly Bridge, 25 miles above the mouth, it was nowhere less than 5 feet and the width 70 to 200 feet.

The project of 1887 is to dredge a channel 100 feet wide and 7 feet deep at low water through the mud flats and beds of oyster rock and the shoal above, at a cost estimated in 1892 at $60,000.

To June 30, 1891, $19.81 had been expended.

At that date the bar had been surveyed, but dredging had not been commenced.

With the amount, $4,944.51, applied during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, a cut 40 feet wide and 5 feet deep at mean low water was dredged 2,530 feet in length, about one-third of the distance through the mud flats and beds of oyster rock.

July 1, 1891, balance unexpended

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year..

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892

Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893

$4,980. 19 4, 944.51

35.68 3,000.00

3,035. 68

Amount (estimated in 1887) required for completion of existing project. $32, 000. 00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix L 20.)

21. Yadkin River, North Carolina.-Its improvement is restricted to a section 33 miles in length, below and between which and its lower part, called the Great Pedee, which is navigable from tide water to near the southern boundary of the State, there intervenes a section of the river 111 miles in length containing many shoals, rapids, and falls which entirely preclude any attempt to make it navigable.

When the United States commenced to improve the section 64 miles long from the railroad bridge near Salisbury to the foot of Bean Shoal, its navigation was completely obstructed by rock ledges, fishing and milldams, and numerous shoals, with a greatest depth of 1 foot at ordinary low water on some of its shoals and ledges. The estimated cost of the improvement was $400,000.

The project of 1879 was to secure a minimum depth of 2 feet at ordinary stages nine months annually throughout the 643 miles.

The present project, of 1887, is to secure this depth for a distance of 33 miles only, next above the railroad bridge at Salisbury, at an estimated cost of $107,000.

To June 30, 1891, $98,971.45 had been expended upon this work. At that date it had a channel 40 to 70 feet wide, 25 feet deep, about eight months annually, navigated only by flat and pole boats.

With the amount applied during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, 392 linear feet of dams has been built and 216 cubic yards of stone raised from the channel.

July 1, 1891, balance unexpended

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended.

July 1, 1892, outstanding liabilities.

July 1, 1892, balance available

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892.........

Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893... (See Appendix L 21.)

$3,460.20 3, 004. 38

455.82 57.25

398.57 5,000.00

5, 398.57

22. Harbor at Georgetown, South Carolina.-This harbor is that part of the Sampit River immediately within the bar at its mouth near the head of Winyaw Bay.

When the United States began to improve it in 1884, there was in the channel on the ocean bar at the mouth of the bay at low water, about 83 feet and about 12 feet at high water, thence up the bay there was a depth of 13 feet to the bar at the mouth of the Sampit, upon which there was only 9 feet at ordinary low water.

The project of 1881 is to dredge a channel 200 feet wide to the depth of 12 feet at ordinary low water through this shoal or bar to permit. vessels to reach the wharves at Georgetown.

To June 30, 1891, $23,935.73 had been expended upon this work.

At that date a channel 12 feet deep had been dredged entirely through the shoal with a minimum width of 80 feet, and for a part of its length of 100 feet.

With the amount applied during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, the minimum width of the 12-foot channel has been increased to 130 feet.

July 1, 1891, balance unexpended..

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended..

July 1, 1892, outstanding liabilities

July 1, 1892, balance available....

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892 .

Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30,1893....

(See Appendix L 22.)

$8, 564, 27 8, 189.39

374.88 16.00

358.88

12, 000. 00

12, 358.88

23. Winyaw Bay, South Carolina.-When the United States began to improve it in 1890, there was at mean low water in the main (southerly) channel on its ocean bar, 7 to 9 feet, and in the Bottle (easterly) Channel 6 to 8 feet of water, both channels being changeable; thence 12 miles to the head of the bay vessels could draw 12 feet at lowest tides.

The project of 1885, as approved by the Board of Engineer officers in 1888, and by the Chief of Engineers in 1889, is to increase the depth of water in Bottle Channel to about 15 feet at mean low water by building to the height of 6 feet above that plane a jetty from North Island 10,700 feet long, and a jetty from South Island 17,500 feet long across the main channel to the 15-foot curve, at a total estimated cost of $2,500,000.

To prevent the overflow to the depth of about 1 foot at mean high water of a wide expanse of marsh on the southerly side of the entrance to the bay, ensuing from the degradation of about 3 miles of beach, and hurtful changes of the tidal regimen of the bay, a dike 12,000 feet in length is to be built, at an estimated cost of $35,280, by authority from the Chief of Engineers of May 10, 1892.

To June 30, 1891, $32,836.88 had been expended upon this work. At that date the necessary plant had been installed, and the north jetty and its two branches built to the mean water line.

With the amount applied during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, the north jetty has been built to a distance of 2,090 feet from the mean water line to a height of about 18 inches above mean low water, but not far enough to have any perceptible effect upon the channel on the bar; and 871 tons of stone have been placed on the jetty and its branches on shore.

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Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893 .....

15, 532. 01 100,000.00

115, 532. 01

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project..... 2, 181, 250.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and

harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix L 23.)

24. Removing sunken vessels or craft obstructing or endangering navigation. The wreck of an old schooner opposite Swan Point in Pamlico

River, North Carolina, reported in March, 1891, as obstructing and endangering navigation, was blown up and removed in August, 1891. (See Appendix L 24.)

IMPROVEMENT OF LUMBER AND WACCAMAW RIVERS, NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, AND OF CERTAIN RIVERS AND HARBORS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Officer in charge, Capt. Frederic V. Abbot, Corps of Engineers; Division Engineer, Col. William P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers.

1. Waccamaw River to Waccamaw Lake, North Carolina and South Carolina.-In 1880 this river was navigable for boats of 12 feet draft at all stages of water from Georgetown 23 miles to Bull Creek, and at high water 4 miles farther to Buck's lower mills; thence for boats of 7 feet draft at high water 22 miles farther to Conway; thence it possessed an obstructed channel for boats of 3 feet draft at ordinary winter water 68 miles to Reeves Ferry; thence an obstructed channel with 3 feet depth at high water 30 miles to Lake Waccamaw.

The project provides for a channel 12 feet deep at all stages of water and 80 feet bottom width from the mouth of the river to Conway; thence a cleared channel to Lake Waccamaw. The estimated cost is $138,400.

The work of the year has been snagging. Up to June 30, 1892, $77,900 has been spent, giving a thoroughly cleared channel with 100 feet least width, 7 feet deep at low water as far as Conway, and 40 feet width and 3 feet deep 68 miles above Conway.

The commerce of the past year passing over this river amounts to 83,103 tons.

July 1, 1891, balance unexpended

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project ..... Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M 1.)

$4, 199. 54 4, 199.54

10,000.00

50,500.00

2. Lumber River, North Carolina and South Carolina.-The river was obstructed by logs, snags, and overhanging trees, and in places by sand bars. It was crossed by a number of bridges without draws. The project contemplates the removal of snags, logs, overhanging trees, etc., for 70 miles below Lumberton, at an estimated cost of $35,000. The work of the year has been snagging. The bridges have been provided with draw spans or discontinued. The commerce of the year amounts to 6,800 tons. Total expenditures to June 30, 1892, $9,503.38. July 1, 1891, balance unexpended

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year..

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended .

July 1, 1892, outstanding liabilities..

July 1, 1892, balance available.....

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892..

$4,356. 94 3,860.32

496.62

45.00

451.62 5,000.00

5, 451.62

Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893..

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project....... 20,000. 00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and

harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M 2.)

3. Little Pedee River, South Carolina.-This river was much obstructed by snags and overhanging trees, and in places was subdivided into several branches. The project contemplates providing for steamboat navigation to Lumber River and pole-boat navigation to Little Rock. The estimated cost is $50,000. The work of the year has been snagging. This year's commerce amounts to 7,115 tons. Total expenditures to June 30, 1892, $9,692.88.

July 1, 1891, balance unexpended

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended

July 1, 1892, outstanding liabilities..

July 1, 1892, balance available ...........

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892..

Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893..

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project. Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M 3.)

$2,861.59 2, 554.47

307.12 40.00

267. 12 5,000.00

5, 267. 12

35,000.00

4. Great Pedee River, South Carolina. The river was dangerously obstructed by snags and logs. The project provides for thoroughly cleared 9-foot navigation 52 miles to Smith Mills, and 3-foot navigation to Cheraw, 172 miles above the mouth, at all stages of water, at an estimated cost of $117,000. The work of the year has been snagging. This year's commerce amounts to 92,471 tons. Total expenditures to June 30, 1892, $75,642.61.

July 1, 1891, balance unexpended..

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year..

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended.

July 1, 1892, outstanding liabilities

July 1, 1892, balance available

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892..

Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893..

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project..... Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix M 4.)

$9,460.98 5, 603.59

3, 857.39 610.32

3,247.07 10,000.00

13, 247. 07

27,500.00

5. Clark River, South Carolina.-This river forms the southern mouth of Lynch River. Its upper end was entirely choked by driftwood and fallen trees. The project provides for closing the northern mouth of Lynch River and snagging Clark River. The estimate cost is $7,500. The work of the year has been snagging. This year's commerce amounts to 6,586 tons. Total expenditures to June 30, 1892, $5,000. July 1, 1891, balance unexpended...

June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year...

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892.. (See Appendix M 5.)

$2, 261.68 2,261.68

2,500.00

6. Mingo Creek, South Carolina.-This stream was much obstructed by snags and overhanging trees. The project provides for removing obstructions from the mouth to Williams Landing for steamboat navi

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