to anchor 14 miles below Wilmington and discharge a part of their ca goes into lighters. In 1853, at low water on the bar, the least mi channel depth was 7 feet in the western channel, 74 feet in the easter channel, and 8 feet at New Inlet, 7 miles above the mouth. The original project of 1827 was to deepen the channel through t shoals in the 8 miles next below Wilmington by contracting it by jetti and by diverting into it water from Brunswick River and from Fishin and Rodmans creek. The project of 1853 was to straighten and deepen the channel on th bar by building jetties and a wing dam, by dredging, by diverting,wat through it from New Inlet, by building a jetty at Federal Point, and b closing two small breaches in Zekes Island. The project of 1870 was to deepen the bar channel by closing th breaches between Smiths and Zekes islands, with the ultimate closur of New Inlet in view. The project of 1873, to deepen the channel through the bar, added t that of 1870, to dredge in the Baldhead (eastern) Channel, to exten across Zekes Island and beyond it into the river, the dam then bein built to close the breaches between Smiths and Zekes islands, and t close New Inlet, commencing with the building of a jetty from Federa Point. The project of 1874 was "to get 12 feet at low water as high as the city of Wilmington" by dredging a channel 100 feet wide through Horseshoe Shoal below New Inlet and through three other shoals near Wilmington. The project of 1881 was to dredge a channel 23 miles in length throngh Horseshoe Shoal, and through eight other shoals above it, 270 feet wide and 16 feet deep at mean low water from deep water at Smithville (Southport) to Wilmington. The project of 1891 was to secure a channel 20 feet deep from Wilmington to the bar, by dredging a cut 270 feet wide and 20 feet deep at mean low water an aggregate length of 17.2 miles through ten shoals, and to increase the depth in the channel on the bar to 20 feet at mean low water, and secure it by the possible construction of stone jetties at an estimated aggregate cost of $1,800,000. The present project, of June 9, 1892, is to obtain with the United States suction dredge Woodbury as great a depth as practicable, not to exceed 18 feet at mean low water, in the channel on the bar, and to dredge a channel 18 feet deep at mean low water through the shoals, thence to Wilmington, and as wide as the funds available in the next two year will permit, it being left to the experience of the next few years to decide whether it be necessary or expedient to work for a greater depth. To June 30, 1891, $2,519,035.46 had been expended upon this work. At that date New Inlet had been closed and a continuous stone dam 3.3 miles in length had been completed, extending across the inlet. Zekes Island, and the breaches between Zekes and Smiths islands; crossing the bar, there was a tortuous channel having a minimum depth of 17 feet at mean low water; thence there was a channel 16 feet deep at mean low water and 233 to 270 feet wide through all the shoals to Wilmington; at the shoal at Wilmington a cut 2,100 feet in length had been dredged to the width of 270 feet and depth of 20 feet at mean low water. With the amount applied during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, a channel has been completed 20 feet deep at mean low water, 270 feet wide and 3,200 in length, through Wilmington Shoal; to the same depth, 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 Suows 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, 1892, amount covered by uncompleted contracts.... 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 14 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. ( 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 t a section 33 miles in length, below and between which and its lowe part, called the Great Pedee, which is navigable from tide water to nea the southern boundary of the State, there intervenes a section of th river 111 miles in length containing many shoals, rapids, and fall: which entirely preclude any attempt to make it navigable. When the United States commenced to improve the section 641⁄2 mile 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 23 feet at ordinary stages nine months annually throughout the e The present project. of 1997 2211 ལམ་ viance 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.) 5,004.38 455.82 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 82 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, 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. Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893 .... 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 navi gation. The wreck of an old schooner opposite Swan Point in Pamlico River, North Carolina, reported in March, 1891, as obstructing and dangering navigation, was blown up and removed in August, 1891 (See Appendix L 24.) IMPROVEMENT OF LUMBER AND WACCAMAW RIVERS, NORTH CA LINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, AND OF CERTAIN RIVERS AND H BORS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Officer in charge, Capt. Frederic V. Abbot, Corps of Engine Division Engineer, Col. William P. Craighill, Corps of Engineers. 1. Waccamaw River to Waccamaw Lake, North Carolina and So Carolina.-In 1880 this river was navigable for boats of 12 feet draf all stages of water from Georgetown 23 miles to Bull Creek, and high water 4 miles farther to Buck's lower mills; thence for boats feet draft at high water 22 miles farther to Conway; thence it posses an obstructed channel for boats of 3 feet draft at ordinary winter wa 68 miles to Reeves Ferry; thence an obstructed channel with 3 1 depth at high water 30 miles to Lake Waccamaw. The project provides for a channel 12 feet deep at all stages of wa and 80 feet bottom width from the mouth of the river to Conw thence a cleared channel to Lake Waccamaw. The estimated cos $138,400. The work of the year has been snagging. Up to June 30, 18 $77,900 has been spent, giving a thoroughly cleared channel with 1 feet least width, 7 feet deep at low water as far as Conway, and 40 f width and 3 feet deep 68 miles above Conway. The commerce of the past year passing over this river amounts 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. 4. 199. 10,000. 50, 500. 2. Lumber River, North Carolina and South Carolina.-The river wa obstructed by logs, snags, and overhanging trees, and in places by san bars. It was crossed by a number of bridges without draws. Th project contemplates the removal of snags, logs, overhanging tree 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 pr vided with draw spans or discontinued. The commerce of the yea amounts to 6,800 tons. Total expenditures to June 30, 1892, $9,503.3 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..... $4, 356.9 3,860.3 496.6 45.0 451.6 5,000.0 5,451.6 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.) |