tons of stone were deposited in the breakwater below low water, and 13,448 tons above low water; 500 feet of the breakwater are completed, and in addition 4,000 feet well advanced.

A contract is in force with the Cape Ann Granite Company to deposit 240,000 tons of stone in the breakwater below mean low

water.

3. Gloucester Harbor.

The project for the improvement of the harbor remains unchanged.

During the year 549 cubic yards of ledge were removed from Harbor Cove and the inner harbor, under a contract with Messrs. Townsend & Johnston, thus completing the project for the improvement of the harbor, except building the Eastern Point break

water.

A contract is in force with the Rockport Granite Company to deposit 57,000 tons of stone in the Eastern Point breakwater, and operations under this contract have been commenced.

4. Manchester Harbor.

No change has been made in the project of improvement. During the year the contract with Mr. Edgar P. Lovering was completed, and the improved channel is 60 feet wide, 4 feet deep, 4,000 feet long, or as proposed by the project.

5. Salem Harbor.

The project of improvement is unaltered.

Under a contract with Mr. Augustus R. Wright, the project was completed during the year.

The improved channel is 300 feet wide at its entrance, 150 feet wide at Derby Wharf Light, 100 feet wide to near the inner end of Derby wharf, and to this point 8 feet deep at mean low water; above, it is 50 feet wide and 6 feet deep.

A survey of the harbor is in progress, on which to base additional improvements.

6. Lynn Harbor.

No change has been made in the project.

No operations were in progress during the year, and the improvement is in the same condition as at the date of the last report.

7. Winthrop Harbor.

No operations during the year.

The project is completed.

8. Boston Harbor.

No change was made during the year in the project for the improvement of this harbor.

Operations under the contract with Mr. Charles H. Souther and Mr. Augustus R. Wright were continued during the year, and the contract is essentially completed. The improved channel is 1,000 feet wide from its entrance near the outer light to Bug Light, and between Bug Light and George's Island 800 feet wide; 27 feet deep at mean low water, except over the ledges uncovered by the dredging. These ledges aggregate nearly 9,000 cubic yards, and a contract for their removal is in force with Messrs. Townsend & Johnston. Operations will be commenced under this contract immediately.

The improvement of the Nantasket Beach channel was completed; it is now 150 feet wide, 12 feet deep at mean low water.

9. Hingham Harbor.

No change during the year.

10. Scituate Harbor.

A contract was entered into with the Pigeon Hill Granite Company to deposit 9,500 tons of rubble-stone in the south jetty. Operations under this contract will be commenced immediately.

A contract was entered into with the Columbian Dredging Company to dredge 47,000 cubic yards from this river. Operations were commenced under this contract in October, 1894, but were suspended for the season early in November; and the condition of the improvement is essentially unaltered.

17. Merrimac River.

No change during the year.

The available funds will be expended in making a survey from the mouth to Haverhill, on which to base a project for additional improvements.

18. Powow River.

A contract was entered into with Mr. Augustus R. Wright to dredge 64,000 cubic yards from this river. Operations under this contract will be commenced early in the spring.

19. Ipswich River.

The present project for the improvement of this river was completed during the year under a contract with Mr. Edgar P. Lovering. Four feet draft at mean low water can now be carried to the head of navigation, in a channel 60 feet wide.

20. Weymouth River.

A contract was entered into with Messrs. Perkins & White to dredge 37,000 cubic yards from this river. Operations under this contract will be commenced in the spring.

21. Mystic and Malden Rivers.

A contract was entered into with Mr. Chas. H. Souther to dredge 75,000 cubic yards from these rivers. Operations under this contract will be commenced in the spring.

22. Removal of Wrecks.

During the year the following wrecks were removed:

By a contract with Mr. D. A. Johnston, the schooner "Wild fire" from Provincetown harbor.

Under a contract with Messrs. Townsend & Johnston, an unknown schooner from off Chatham, Mass.

By hired labor, the steamer "Perit" from Chatham bar, Mass. By a contract with Mr. Geo. W. Townsend, the schooner "Ocean Eagle" from off Newburyport, Mass.

23. Examinations and Surveys.

Preliminary examinations were made of the harbors at Manchester, Plymouth and Chatham New Inlet.

Projects for the improvement of Chelsea Creek and East Boston Channel have been prepared.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. M. MANSFIELD, Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers.

STATEMENT

OF

CAPT. W. H. BIXBY, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U. S. A.

[Referred to in the foregoing report of the Board.]

Abstract of work of river and harbor improvement done in the State of Massachusetts by the United States government, under direction of Capt. Wm. H. Bixby, Corps of Engineers, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894. (For the approved projects of each work, see the Harbor and Land Commissioners' Report for 1893.)

1. Taunton River.

Nothing was done, because of lack of appropriations.

There remain to complete the existing project the widening and deepening of the channel at a few points, and the removal of a small amount of ledge rock.

2. Hyannis Harbor.

Dredging was commenced by the contractor at this place in April, and completed on June 8, 1894; by which 21,880 cubic yards of sand were removed from 10,545 feet length and 25 feet width of cutting and to 15.5 feet depth at low water, resulting in an addition of about 6.1 acres to the anchorage basin, which now covers about 65 acres. Further dredging must await further

appropriations.

The work required to complete the existing project is the completion of the dredging to a depth of 15 feet over 16 acres more, in the area limited on the west by a line running due north from the western end of the breakwater and on the north by a line running parallel to the breakwater, and distant 500 feet from it, leaving a berm of 100 feet along its northern side.

During the year general preparations and repair of plant, including overhauling of jetty light, and later the replacing of both the lantern and staff, which during the past winter had been carried away by ice and lost.

Informal bids for placing stone in the jetties were received, and contract entered into with Messrs. S. & E. S. Belden of Hartford, Conn., under date of April 16 (approved by the chief of engineers on April 21), at $1.85 per ton of 2,000 pounds in place in the east jetty, and $2 per ton of 2,000 pounds in place in the west jetty; work to be commenced on or before June 30, and completed on or before Dec. 31, 1894. Work was actually commenced by the contractor on May 30, and was in progress at the end of the year; 825 tons of core stone and 590 tons of facing stone being placed in the east jetty, thereby extending it by 420 feet; and 575 tons of facing stone being placed on the west jetty, thereby levelling it up to about 100 feet from the shore end. The east jetty is now 2,554 feet long, and the west jetty 3,955 feet long.

A light has been maintained on the west jetty during the year. The work required to complete the existing project is the extension of the east jetty, the raising of the west jetty in some places, and the excavation by dredging of so much of the channel as may not be excavated by tidal scour.

4. Edgartown Harbor.

Nothing was done, because of lack of appropriations.

The work required to complete the existing project is the excavation of the remaining quarter of the middle ground to a depth of 10 feet at mean low water.

5. Vineyard Haven Harbor.

Work at this place consists in protecting the bluff ends of the Chops from further wear by the ocean currents and storm waves. Work was commenced by the contractor in August and continued until December, when stopped on account of the severe winter weather; by which 608 tons of heavy stone and 467 tons of light stone were placed in position in about 800 feet length of sea walls and jetties at the West Chop, completing such work at this Chop for the present; and 386 tons of heavy stone and 215 tons of light stone were put in position in about 600 feet length of sea wall and jetties at the East Chop.

The land on the end of the West Chop having been thus pro