Report of the Commissioners of the State of New York on the Canals from Lake Erie to the Hudson River and from Lake Champlain to the SameT & W. Mercein, printers, 1843 - New York (State) |
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abutments Amount remaining Assembly boats bottom bridge on section Buffalo built Canal Board Canal Commissioners Canastota Cartersville Champlain canal channel Chemung canal Chenango Canal coffer dam completed and brought constructed contract prices contractors cost at contract creek aqueduct cubic yards culvert distance division docking Double locks embankment enlarged canal Erie canal estimated at contract Estimated cost excavation expenditure expense extending farm bridges finished freshets gates Genesee river Genesee Valley canal guard lock Jonas Earll last spring line of canal Little-Falls masonry materials delivered mechanical structures miles Mohawk river nearly completed necessary Nine-mile creek old canal old lock Oneida Oneida creek Oneida river opening of navigation Oswego Oswego canal past season piers portion present canal put under contract rebuilt removed road bridge Schoharie creek season of navigation side slope wall stone stream supply of water tion Total amount trunk village Waste-weirs Weigh lock wing walls
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Page 10 - The drawing which accompanies this re port will make these remarks better understood. The total expenditures for this improvement to June 30, 1885, have been $19,972.96. It is not of a local character, for the channel is a general thoroughfare, and it is desirable that it should be completed as soon as practicable. It is estimated that 25,000 vessels pass over the bar and through the reach annually. It is the regular route of the steamers of the Portland, Bangor, Mount Desert, and Machias line, and...