Surveys Continued. Connecticut. Arizona. Delaware. Dakota. Florida. CALIFORNIA. San Beunaventure Harbor. Eel River, entrance and inside bars to head of navigation. The Secretary of War is hereby directed to make an examination and report to Congress as to the necessity for the establishment and maintenance of public moorings for the protection of shipping in the open and exposed ports on the Northern coast of California at Fort Ross, Fish's Mill, Fish Rock, Shelter, Cove, Trinidad and such other places as may be deemed advisable by him. Mystic River. New London Harbor. CONNECTICUT. Black Rock Harbor, for breakwater to Pentfield Reef and south from Fairweather Island.. ARIZONA. Colorado River, between Camp Mojave and El Dorado Canon. Colorado River, between Camp Mojave and the point where the boundary-line between Nevada and Utah Territory intersects said river. DELAWARE. Nanticoke River, from Seaford to Concord. Mahon River. Prime Hook Creek. Appoquinimink Creek. DAKOTA. Ice harbor at or near Bismarck, on the Upper Missouri River. Saint Andrew's Bay. FLORIDA. Chipola River, from its mouth to Marianna. Saint Mark's River and bar at its mouth. Ocklawaha River from its mouth to Lake Griffin, Homosassa River and bar at its mouth. Chipola River from its mouth to Wewahitchka and the "Cut Off," and Lee's Slough," running from the Apalachicola River to the Chipola River. Crystal River and bar at its mouth. Alafia River and bar at its mouth. Sarasota Bay. The channel between Tampa Bay and Old Tampa Bay. Flint River, rock reefs at Albany and above. Savannah River above Augusta and between Augusta and Andersonville. Oconee River. Ocmulgee River. Resurvey. INDIANA. Grand Calumet River, beginning one-half mile east of Hammond, and thence eastward to Lake Michigan. For the survey of a canal-way connecting the waters of Lake Michigan with the Calumet River, beginning at a point on the Calu met River one mile east of Hammond, Indiana, and running due Surveys-Continued. north to Berry Lake, and thence along the eastern waters of said Berry Lake; thence northeast to Lake Michigan. The survey to estimate a canal fourteen feet deep and two hundred feet wide. Berry Lake forming a natural harbor of refuge. Moline City Harbor. Grand Calumet River. ILLINOIS. Mississippi River, the main slough at Hamilton, Illinois, to the end of securing a good and sufficient steam-boat landing at that point. IOWA. For a suruey and examination of the Mississippi River at and near the head of Beaver Island, at Clinton, Iowa, to determine what is necessary to remove the sand-bars there formed and forming, so as to make navigable and protect the entrance to the western channel, and the channel itself that runs between Beaver Island and the Iowa shore. Harbor at Owensboro. KENTUCKY. Big Sandy River from Catlettsburgh to Pikeville, on Louisa Fork, and to the mouth of Pond Creek on Tug Fork. Illinois. Iowa. Kentucky. LOUISIANA. Bayou Teche, from mouth to Saint Martinsville. Atchafalaya River, from Berwick's Bay to Gulf of Mexico, to se cure a channel or twenty feet depth. Mouth and Passes of Calcasieu River. Bayou Terrebonne, for continuing dredging three miles above Houma. Harbor of Baton Rouge. Tangipahoa River. Bayou Dorcheat, from Lake Bisteneau to the Arkansas line. Bayou Chitta. Bayou des Glaises, with a view to establishing locks. Bayou Saint John, from head of navigation to Lake Pontchar Bayou Terrebonne and Bayou Black, with the view of opening a shorter water-way between Mississippi River and Berwick's Bay, Texas and Mexico. MARYLAND. Eastern Branch of Potomac River. Warwick River. Wetypkin River.yal de Chester River, between Crumpton and Jones' Landing. South East River. La Trappe River. Still Pond Harbor Louisiana. Maryland. Mississippi. Minnesota. Cohasset Harbor. Weymouth River. Goose Point Channel, Plymouth Harbor, to public wharf at Kingston. Cranes and Waters Rivers of Essex Branch. Martha's Vineyard, inner and outer harbor at Edgarton. Stage Harbor at Chatham. Westport Harbor, and East and West Branch of Westport River. Malden River, as to straightening, widening, and deepening the channel. MISSISSIPPI. Gulf Port Harbor, with a view to obtaining a twenty foot channel two hundred feet wide to approach the shore as near as practicable. Leaf River, from its mouth to mouth of Bowie Creek, near the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad. Chickasahay River, from its mouth to Enterprise. Bluff Creek, from its mouth to the head of navigation. Tombigbee, between Vienna and Cotton Gin, with a view of obtaining continuous navigation. Bogue Phalia, especially the part known as the Narrows, with view to its improvement. Duluth. MINNESOTA. False Presque Isle Harbor, Lake Huron, for a harbor of refuge. Au Gres River, to deepen channel to village of Au Gres to ten feet in depth. Black River, Lake Superior, to deepen channel to depth of sixteen feet and constructing a breakwater. Detroit River, at Gross Point, to dredge channel now in use to depth of twenty feet. Petoskey Harbor, for breakwater and harbor of refuge. Thunder Bay River, Alpena, for sixteen foot channel from mouth to one mile above. Au Sable River at Au Sable, with view of twelve foot channel and breakwater. Port Austin, for breakwater. Lexington, for breakwater. Forestville, for breakwater. Black River, at Port Huron, to deepen channel from mouth to Grand Trunk railroad bridge to depth of eighteen feet. Pine River, at Saint Clair City, to deepen channel from mouth to Belknap's brick-yard to depth of sixteen feet. Quanicassee River, to deepen channel from mouth to village of Sebewaing to twelve feet. Port Sanilac, for harbor of refuge. Saugatuck Harbor, to obtain channel of navigable width, with a minimum depth of fifteen feet and reconstructing piers. Monroe Harbor, to deepen channel to sixteen feet. Grand River, from Grand Rapids to Lake Michigan: For channel of navigable width, minimum depth of ten feet. Algonac on St Clair, River, with view of uniting north and south Surveys-Continued. channels between Clark and Harsems Islands. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a survey to be made of the Osage River, Missouri, from its mouth up to the first shoal, and five miles above the same, and to report an estimate, based on such survey, of the cost of constructing one lock and dam within the limits of said survey, and the effect upon the navigation of said river, of constructing said lock and dam. Missouri River at Miami. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Cocheco River, from Dover to its mouth. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a survey to be made of the Hampton River in New Hampshire, and to direct the engineer making the survey to report as to the most feasible, economical, and suitable plan for improving the same. NEW MEXICO. Rio Grande River, from Embudo to El Paso, Texas. NEW YORK. Water-way around Niagara Falls, of capacity and facilities sufficient to float merchant ships and ships of war of modern build, drawing twenty feet of water, said water-way to commence in a navigable part of Niagara River, in Niagara County, at or near Tonawanda, and to end in the navigable waters of said river below said falls, " in navigable waters connected therewith. For the purposes hereof the Secretary of War, in his discretion, may take into consideration and revise the surveys and estimates of such a waterway heretofore made by Brevet Colonel C. E. Blunt, of the United States Corps of Engineers, in compliance with a joint resolution of the Congress approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Plattsburgh: For extension of three hundred feet on north end of the breakwater. Fort Pond Harbor, Montauk. East Rockaway Creek, Long Island. Brown's Creek, Saysville. Port Jefferson Inlet. Wappinger's Creek, from Wappinger's Falls to its mouth. East Rockaway Creek. Salmon River, from railroad bridge at Fort Covington to the international line, with a view of deepening the channel to seven feet. Maine. Missouri. New Hampshire. New Mexico. New York. Vol. 15, p. 21. Surveys Continued. New Jersey. North Carolina, Ohic. Oregon. Black River, from Brownville to Lake Ontario. Cape Vincent Harbor, to establish a breakwater. Shoals between the Sister Islands and the cross-over light in Saint Lawrence. Larchmont Harbor. A ship channel between Jersey City and Ellis Island. Harbor of refuge at Frontberg, on the south shore of Lake Ontario. Genessee River, from a point south of the present harbor and above the village of Charlotte, extending southerly a distance about three thousand feet. Channel connecting Irondequoit Bay with Lake Ontario, for harbor of refuge at Irondequoit Bay. Harbor at Troutberg. Harbor, mouth of Salmon River, Lake Ontario. Lake George, with view of placing buoys and improving channel. The East River, with a view to the removal of a ledge of rocks in the same, from the foot of Broome street to the foot of Twenty-third street in New York City. This survey to be made notwithstanding any other survey heretofore made. Hackensack River, from the lower bridge at the town of Hackensack to the Erie Railway Bridge. From the pier Lithe to the main channel, a distance of about sixteen hundred and fifty feet, and seven hundred feet north by northeast from Ellis Island for a ship channel or basin between the deep water of Hudson River, and Ellis Island. Mackey's Creek. Pasquotank River, above the mouth of Turner's Cut. Cape Fear River, North Carolina, from Wilmington to the ocean, with an estimate of the cost of its improvement, with a navigable channel twenty feet deep at mean low water. Ocracoke Inlet. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three engineers from the United States Army whose duty it shall be to thoroughly examine the obstructions to navigation in the Columbia River at The Dalles and Celilo Falls, and at Three and Ten Mile |