List of contracts made by the Engineer Department, &c.—Continued.

List of contracts made by the Engineer Department, &c.—Continued.

Contractors.

Date.

Objects and terms of contracts..

G. H. Ferris, with Col. J. N.
Macomb, Corps of Engi

neers.

1879.

Sept. 16 For dredging and removing 100,000 yards of sand and mud
from the channel of the Delaware River at Mitlin Bar, and
deposit the same as per specifications, at 263 cents per cubic
yard. Expires September 1, 1880.

Culbert Brothers, with Capt. Sept. 16 For furnishing material and labor for constructing and plac
G. J. Lydecker, Corps of
Engineers.

John Van Patten, with Col. Sept. 17
J. N. McComb, Corps of
Engineers.

Clement F. Drake, with Col.
J. N. Macomb, Corps of
Engineers.

Sept. 18

R. F. Bartle, with Mr. James Sept. 18
Eveleth, agent Engineer
Department.

ing 200 linear feet, more or less, of crib pier at Calumet Har bor, Illinois, at following prices: For pine timber and plank framed and secured, at $24 per M feet board-measure; for piles (pine) driven and sawed off, $8 each; for wrought-iron drift-bolts, 4 cents per pound; for wrought-iron screwbolts, nuts, and washers, 4 cents per pound; for wroughtiron spikes, 4 cents per pound; for stone properly leveled, $8 per cord of 128 cubic feet; for hemlock timber framed and secured, $22.50 per M feet. Expired November 30,

1879.

For excavating and removing from the channel of Cohansey Creek, New Jersey, between the lower steamboat landing and the nail works in Bridgeton, N. J., 23,000 cubic yards, more or less, of gravel and mud, at ; for each and every cubic yard removed and deposited between high and low water mark, 25 cents per cubic yard; for each and every cubic yard above high-water mark. 37 cents per cubic yard. Expires March 15, 1880.

For furnishing the material and labor required, and constructing the timber jetty, as per specification, at Manasquan Inlet, N. J., at the following prices: For 100 feet, more or less, of the channel section, finished and in position, $8 per running foot; for 400 feet. more or less, of the inner wing adjoining the channel section, finished and in position, $6.50 per running foot; for the remaining 400 feet, more or less, of the inner wing, finished and in position, $6.50 per running foot. Expires March 1, 1880.

For furnishing a copper plate and engraving upon the same lake survey chart entitled "Lake Erie Coast Chart, No. 4," and delivering to the Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., the engraved plate, for $1,075. Expires June 1, 1880.

H. N. and A. J. Beardsley, Sept. 20 For dredging 145,000 cubic yards, more or less, of sand and with Maj. J. W. Barlow,

Corps of Engineers.

Thomas P. Morgan, jr., with Sept. 22

Mr. S. T. Abert, United

States civil engineer.

mud, in New Haven Harbor, Connecticut, and depositing same as per specifications, at 98 cents per cubic yard. Ex pires June 30, 1880.

For dredging a channel at Urbanna Creek, Virginia, 20,000 cubic yards, more or less, deposited as per specifications, 24 cents per cubic yard. Expires June 30, 1880.

John M. Seward, with Maj. J. Sept. 22 For dredging about 8,000 cubic yards of sand and gravel in

W. Barlow, Corps of En

gineers.

Atlantic Dredging Company Sept. 23

(R. J. Packard, President)

with Lieut. Col. George

Thom.

Port Jefferson Harbor, Long Island, New York, and depositing the same as per specifications, at 55 cents per cubic yard. Expires June 30, 1880.

For dredging channel in Lubec Narrows, Maine, at following prices: At the bar across the head of Lubec Channel, 10,000 cubic yards, more or less, at 75 cents per cubic yard, measured in situ; at the spit off Charley's Point, 600 cubic yards, more or less, at $2 per cubic yard, measured in situ; at the small spit off Leadurny Point, 720 cubic yards, more or less, at $2 per cubic yard, measured in situ; at the several shoals between the points marked "D" and "E" in the office map, 125,000 cubic yards, more or less, at 23 cents per cubic yard, measured in situ. Expires December 31, 1880.

Morvis & Cumings Dredging Sept. 24 For dredging in Norfolk Harbor, Virginia, and depositing the

Company of New York (James Cumings, Presi dent), with Capt. J. B. Phillips, Corps of Engi

material, at 12 cents per cubic yard. Expires June 30, 1880.

Sept. 24 For dredging in Currituck Sound, North Carolina, and depositing the material, as per specifications, at 15% cents per cubic yard. Expires September 1, 1880.

Sept. 24

For dredging in North Landing River, Virginia and North Carolina, and depositing the material, as per specifications, at 153 cents per cubic yard. Expires July 1, 1880. Sept. 25 For furnishing the following iron for use in constructing pier at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio: Screw and washer bolts, 2,760 pounds, more or less, at 4.44 cents per pound: 27,980 pounds drift-bolts, more or less, at 3.29 cents per pound; 1,175 pounds bot-spikes, more or less, at 3.94 cents per pound. Expires April 1, 1880.

Cleveland, Brown & Co., with Sept. 25
Maj. John M. Wilson,
Corps of Engineers.

For furnishing the following iron for use in building pier at Erie, Pa.: 9,500 pounds, more or less, screw and washer bolts, at 4.44 cents per pound; 76,000 pounds, more or less, driftbo'ts, at 3.29 cents per pound; 3,100 pounds, more or less, bot-spikes, at 3.29 cents per pound. Expires May 1, 1880.

List of contracts made by the Engineer Department, &c.—Continued.

Contractors.

Date.

Objects and terms of contracts.

1879.

George Worthington & Co., Sept. 25

with Maj. John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers.

For furnishing the following iron for use in building breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio: 13,820 pounds. more or less, screw and washer bolts, at 4 cents per pound; 1,680 pounds wrought-iron washers, at 54 cents per pound; 188,000 pounds drift-bolts, at 3 cents per pound; 13,500 pounds boat-spikes, at 33 cents per pound. Expires April 1, 1880.

George J. Ainsworth, with Sept. 25 For removing from the channels of the Upper Columbia River, Maj. G. L. Gillespie, Corps

of Engineers.

Cleveland, Brown & Co., with Sept. 25
Maj. John M. Wilson,
Corps of Engineers.

Joseph Paquet, with Maj. G. Sept. 25
L. Gillespie, Corps of En-
gineers.

G. H. Ferris, with Mr. S. T. Sept. 26
Abert, United States Civil
Engineer.

John Van Patten, with Col. J. Sept. 26
N. Macomb, Corps of En-
gineers.

John Stang, with Maj. J. M. Sept. 27
Wilson, Corps of Engineers.

Sherwood & Giessendorfer, Sept. 29
with Maj. J. M. Wilson,
Corps of Engineers.

Charles S. Barker, with Maj. Sept. 29
G. Weitzel, Corps of Engi-

neers.

Paquet & Smith, with Maj. G. Sept. 29
L. Gillespie, Corps of Engi.

neers.

Oregon, and Snake River, Washington Territory, 1, 100 cubic
yards, more or less, of solid rock, and providing quarters,
board, and fuel for the agent of the United States, and men,
boats, ropes, &c., for use in surveys required and for perma-
nently attaching buoys to the rocks, as per specifications, at
$18 per cubic yard. Expires October 15, 1880.

For furnishing for use in prolonging the piers at Port Clinton,
Ohio, delivering and píling same in storehouse, the follow-
ing iron: 3,600 pounds, more or less, of rods, at 3,3% cents per
pound; 6,100 pounds, more or less, of screw and washer bolts,
at 4 cents per pound; 300 pounds, more or less, drift-bolts,
at 3 cents per pound; 3,180 pounds, more or less, wrought
spikes, at 3 cents per pound. Expires April 1, 1880.
For drilling, blasting, and removing from channel of Upper
Willamette River, Oregon, at Rock Island Rapids, 500 cubic
yards, more or less, of rock, at $7.40 above and $8 below the
line of 2 feet below mean low-water mark. Expires October
1, 1880.

For dredging a channel in the Potomac River, at Mount Ver-
non, Virginia, 20,000 cubic yards, more or less, deposited as
per specifications, at 17 cents per cubic yard. Expires July
1, 1880.

For furnishing material and labor, and constructing the crib or cribs required, near the upper end of Duck Island, Delaware River, finished in position as per specifications, at $4.50 per running foot; for dredging and depositing material as per specifications, at 55 cents per cubic yard. Expires January 1, 1880.

For furnishing materials, and constructing 300 linear feet of
pile pier on the prolongation of the present west revetment,
and extend the east revetment 600 linear feet, at Port Clin
ton Harbor, Ohio, as follows: For 21,720 linear feet, more or
less, of white-oak or red-elm piles, including driving, at 18
cents per linear foot; for 89,899 feet, board measure, more or
less, white-oak timber and plank, including sheathing piles
and their driving, at $21 per M feet; for 175 cords, more or
less, brush, or mill chippings, for fascines and mattresses, at
$1 per cord; for 130 cords, more or less, stone filling, at $3
per cord for 185 cords, more or less, stone riprap, at $3 per
cord. Expires October 1, 1880.

For furnishing material and constructing 1,000 linear feet,
more or less, of breakwater, at Cleveland, Ohio, at the fol
lowing prices: For 1,557,000 feet, board measure, more or
less, of hemlock timber and plank, at $16.50 per M feet,
board measure; for 652,968 feet, board measure, more or less,
of white-pine timber and plank, at $24 per M feet, board
measure; for 51,500 feet, board measure, more or less, of
white-oak timber and plank, at $24 per M feet, board meas-
ure; for 1,824, more or less, rock-elm, rock-maple, oak, or
locust treenails, at $5 per 100; for 2,340 cords, more or less,
of foundation-stone, at $4.10 per cord of 128 cubic feet; for
5,860 cords, more or less, of filling stone, at $5.10 per cord of
128 cubic feet; for 6,000 tons, more or less, of riprap stone,
at $160 per ton of 2,240 pounds. Expires October 31, 1880.
For furnishing 1 dredge, 1 tug, and 1 scow, to be employed in
improving the navigation of the Saint Mary's River, Michi-
gan, at $7.95 per hour. Expired November 15, 1879.
For furnishing materials and labor, and constructing 2.000
linear feet, more or less, of pile, stone, and brush dike, with
the necessary bank revetment, at Swan Island, Willamette
River, Oregon, at following prices: For dike completed, $7.71
per linear foot (extra materials when required); for stone in
place, $1.25 per ton; for piles in place in dam, $1.70 per linear
foot; for fascines in dam, 37 cents per linear foot; for iron
spikes, 5 cents per pound; for timber, $10 per M feet, board
measure. For 700 linear feet, more or less, of a pile, stone,
and brush dike, and necessary bank-revetment, at following
prices: For crib-facing, including beacon-piles, $50 per
linear foot; for bank revetment, $5 per linear foot; for pile-
dam, $10.20 per linear foot (extra material when required);
for stone in place, $1.25 per ton; for piles in place (of dam),
$1.97 per linear foot; for fascines in place (of dam), 37 cents
per linear foot; for timber, $10 per M feet, board measure;
for framing of same, $5 per M feet, board measure; for iron
spikes, 5 cents per pound. Expires September 25, 1880.

List of contracts made by the Engineer Department, &c.—Continued.

Contractors.

Date.

Object and terms of contracts.

Daniel Constantine, with Maj. William P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers.

1879. Sept. 30

Daniel Constantine, with Maj. Sept. 30
William P. Craighill, Corps

of Engineers.

Daniel Constantine, with Maj. Sept. 30
William P. Craighill, Corps
of Engineers.

Williams & Upham, with Maj. Sept. 30
G. Weitzel, Corps of Engi-

neers.

Charles S. Barker, with Maj. Oct. 11
G. Weitzel, Corps of Engi-

neers.

Ross & Pennypacker, with Oct. 13
Maj. William P. Craighill,
Corps of Engineers.

Charles F. Dunbar, with Maj.

Walter McFarland, Corps of Engineers.

William H. Wood, with Col. John Newton, Corps of En gineers.

Silas R. Smith, with Maj. G.
L. Gillespie, Corps of Engi

neers.

Theodore Allen, with Maj. William E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers.

Cains M. Cole, with Maj. William E. Merrill, Corps of Engineers.

Oct. 15

Oct. 15

Oct. 16

Oct. 25

Oct. 25

For dredging 20,000 cubic yards, more or less, of hard sand and clay, in Queenstown Harbor, Maryland, and depositing the same as per specifications, at 23 cents per cubic yard. Expires June 30, 1880.

For dredging in Pocomoke River, Maryland, and depositing same as per specifications, at 17 cents per cubic yard. Expires June 30, 1870.

For dredging 17,000 cubic yards, more or less, of fine, hard sand,
in Onancock Harbor, Virginia, and depositing the same as
per specifications, at 17 cents per cubic yard. Expires
June 30, 1880.

For furnishing 1 dredge, 1 tug, and 1 scow, to be employed in
improving the navigation of the Saint Mary's River, off
Round Island Point, and between Round Island Point and
Point Iroquois, Michigan, at $12.50 per hour. Expired No-
vember 15, 1879.
For excavating and removing about 77,000 cubic yards of ma-
terial from Saint Mary's Falls Canal, Michigan, at 35 cents
per cubic yard. Expires November 1, 1880.

For furnishing stone, at Wilmington, N. C., for use in closing
the new inlet. Cape Fear River, about 10,000 gross tons, at
Far Stone, delivered on cars at river front, $2.24 per tou, or
delivered on lighters, $2.39 per ton. Expires November 1,
1880.

For dredging in the harbor of Little Sodus Bay, New York, approximate quantity, in place, 20,000 cubic yards, or approximate quantity, scow measurement, 28,000 cubic yards, measured in the scows, at 18 cents per cubic yard. Expires June 30, 1880.

For constructing, in Raritan River, New Jersey, in Deep Bend, 2,640 feet, more or less, of dike A," at $7.31 per linear foot; for 2,400 feet, more or less, of dike "B, opposite the "Stakes," at $7.86 per linear foot. Expires July 1, 1880. For removing from channel of Lower Clearwater River, Idaho, 115 cubic yards of solid rock, at $38 per cubic yard. Expires March 31, 1880.

For furnishing labor and material, and constructing an iron dredgeboat hull, for use on Ohio River, for the sum of $21,950. Expires February 1, 1880.

For furnishing materials and constructing a crib-dike in the Lower Ohio River, near the foot of the Grand Chain, at the following prices: For round timber, 7 cents per linear foot; for square timber, $20 per M feet, board measure; for riprap stone, 98 cents per cubic yard; for brush, $1.50 per cord; for iron, 7 cents per pound. Expired December 31, 1879.

Elijah G. Penn, with Major Oct. 25 For furnishing materials and constructing a crib dike in the William E. Merrill, Corps

Ohio River at Portiand Bar, opposite New Albany, Ind., at following prices: For square timber, $19 per M feet, board measure; for riprap stone, 84 cents per cubic yard; for brush, $1 per cord; for iron, 4 cents per pound. Expires December 31, 1880.

28 For constructing in Flushing Bay, New York, a pile dike 3,000
feet, more or less, in length, for $5.90 per linear foot. Expires
July 1, 1880.

Hemenway & Hayes, with Nov. 12 For dredging at Ashtabula Harbor, and furnishing timber,
Maj. John M. Wilson,
Corps of Engineers.

plank, treenails, and stone, and constructing 200 linear feet
of east pier at that place, at, for hemlock timber and plank,
156.855 feet, more or less, $15 per M feet, board measure;
for 93,120 feet white-pine timber and plank, more or less,
$19 per M feet, board measure; for 4,025 feet, more or less,
of oak timber, at $19 per M feet, board measure; for 300
treenails, more or less, at $2 per 100; for 450 cords stone
filling, more or less, at $4.50 per cord of 128 cubic feet. Ex-
pires August 15, 1880.

Hemenway & Hayes, with Nov. 12 For furnishing timber, plank, treenails, and stone, and conMaj. John M.

Corps of Engineers.

Wilson,

structing 600 linear feet of pier at Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania: For 508,656 feet hemlock timber and plank, board measure, more or less, at $14.50 per M feet; for 217,926 feet, more or less, of white-pine timber and plank, board measure, at $19 per M feet; for 1,650 feet, more or less, of white-oak snubbing-posts, at $19 per M feet; for 1,312 treenails, more or less, at $2 per 100; for 1,800 cords stone foundation and filling, more or less, at $4.95 per cord. Expires October 31, 1880.

Seth N. Kimball, with Maj. Nov. 14 For performing the work of dredging (in continuation of that C. W. Howell, Corps of En

gineers.

contracted for June 18, 1879) on the bars at the mouths of the Trinity and Neches Rivers, Texas, at 321 cents per cubic yard. [Modified November 19, in which the consideration is to be 22 cents per cubic yard.] From December 31, 1879, to completion.

S. Ex. 56

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List of contracts made by the Engineer Department, &c.—Continued.

Roland C. McKay, with Lieut. Nov. 15
Col. Q. A. Gillmore, Corps
of Engineers.

Objects and terms of contracts.

For constructing dams in Savannah River, Georgia, at following prices: For the courses of mattresses and stone whereever applied, $3.78 per linear foot; for old field pine, round timber, $9.65 per M feet, board measure; for sawed old field pine, squared timber, $10.25 per M feet, board measure; for yellow pine, round timber, $11.45 per M feet, board measure; for sawed yellow pine, squared timber, $13.90 per M feet, board measure; for old field pine planking, $10.45 per M feet, board measure; for yellow pine planking, $14.75 per M feet, board measure; for yellow pine piling, 17 cents per linear foot; for wrought-iron screw tie bolts, nuts, and washers. 5 cents per pound; for wrought-iron square drift-bolts and spikes, 5 cents per pound; for stone filling, $2.98 per cubic yard; for brush filling, 23 cents per cubic yard; for clay filling, 17 cents per cubic yard. Expires August 1, 1880. For performing the work of removing the obstructions in Pearl River, between Jackson, Miss., and Carthage, Miss., for the sum of $5,500. Expires end of low-water season of 1880. Nov. 24 For dredging 16,000 cubic yards in the harbor at Cedar Keys, Fla., sand and shells, at 69% cents per cubic yard. Expires June 1, 1880.

J. S. Hamilton & Co., with Nov. 20
Maj. C. W. Howell, Corps
of Engineers.

James E. Slaughter, with
Capt. A. N. Damrell, Corps

of Engineers.

James E. Slaughter, with Nov. 24 For removing the wreck of the steamer Lewisburg, at harbor Capt. A. N. Damrell, Corps of Cedar Keys, Fla., for the sum of $1,999. Expires June 1, 1880.

of Engineers.

George C. Fobes & Co., with Dec. 12 For dredging 110,000 cubic yards, as estimated, in the Wash-
Mr. S. T. Abert, United
States civil engineer.

George C. Fobes & Co., with
Mr. S. T. Abert, United
States civil engineer.

John Roy, with Maj. C. W.
Howell, Corps of Engi

neers.

ington Channel, in the harbors of Washington and Georgetown, D. C., at 15 cents per cubic yard. Expires June 30, 1880. Dec. 12 For dredging the channels at Breton Bay, Maryland, estimated amount 25,000 cubic yards, at 16 cents per cubic yard; and at Nomini Creek, Virginia, estimated amount 10,000 cubic yards, at 293 cents per cubic yard. Expires June 30, 1880. 26 For manufacturing, furnishing, and placing an artificial cov ering of cane mats over the sloping portions of the river front of the third district of New Orleans, La., at 65 cents per square yard, for all such sloping portion of the river bank as the said mats may cover. Six months from time of laying first mat.

Dec.

Alfred Kishpaugh, with Mr. Dec. 31
S. T. Abert, United States
civil engineer.

For furnishing materials, labor, machinery, and appliances, and constructing a dike at Fredericksburg Bar, in the Rap pahannock River, designated as Dike No. 6, for the sum of $3.15 per linear foot; and for constructing such wing-damu at Spottswood Bar, in the same river, as may be required, for the sum of $3.55 per linear foot. Expires June 30, 1880.

WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL-OFFICER, Washington, D. C., December 4, 1879. SIR: In pursuance of an act of Congress approved April 21, 1808, requiring a statement to be made each year of contracts entered into during the year previous, I have the honor to report that, during the year 1879, the following contracts were made by this office, viz:

Contract for miscellaneous stationery for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, was made with J. J. Chapman, of Washington, D. C.

Contract for paper for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1820, was made with William Ballantyne & Son, of Washington, D. C.

Contract for telegraphic supplies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, was made with Patrick & Carter, of Philadelphia, Pa.

Contract for cedar telegraph-poles was made with A. A. McCullough, of Norfolk, Va.

Contract for superintending the construction of telegraph lines was made with A. A. McCullough, of Norfolk, Va.

Contract for iron telegraph-poles was made with A. A. McCullough, of Norfolk, Va.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ALBERT J. MYER, Brigadier-General (brevet assigned), Chief Signal-Officer of the Army. The SECRETARY OF WAR, Washington, D. C.