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55TH CO GRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. DOCUMENT
2d Ses ion. No. 134.
SURVEY OF BIG STONE LAKE AND LAKE TRAVERSE,
MINNESOTA.
LETTER
FROM
THE SECRETARY OF WAR,
TRAN&MITTING,
WITH A LETTER PROM THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, REPORT OF
SURVEY OF BIG STONE LAKE AND LAKB TRAVERSE, MINNE-
SOTA.
DECEMBER 9, 1897.-Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered
to be printed.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D. C., December 8, 1897.
SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith a letter from the Chief of
Engineers, dated December 6, 1897, together with a copy of a report
from Lieut. Col. W. A. Jones, Corps of Engineers, dated November 15,
1897, of a survey made by him in compliance with the provisions of the
river and harbor act of June 3, 1896, of Big Stone Lake and Lake
Traverse, Minnesota.
Very respectfully, R. A. ALGER,
Secretary of War.
The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
OFFICE OF TRE C1 EF OF ENGINEERS,
hJITED STATES ARMY,
Washin ton, D. 0., December 6, 1897.
SIR: The river and harbor act of June 3, 1896, provides for a survey
of Big Stone Lake and Lake Traverse [Minnesota], with a view to the
construction of reservoirs, in accordance with the report of Maj. W. A.
Jones, of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, dated Jan-
uary sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
The duty of making the survey thus called for was assigned to the
charge of Lieutenant-Colonel Jones, who, under date of November 15,
1897, submits a report, with plans and estimates, which it is assumed
are such plans as were contemplated in his report on preliminary exam-
ination of January 16, 1895, and the plans called for by the law.
The report is accompanied by a subreport of Mr. W. C. Weeks, who
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