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3807 1 (1898-1899)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32745 and id is 1 raw text is: 55TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. DOCUMENT / 3d Session. f No. 122. SURVEY OF OHIO RIVER. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, TRANSMITTING, WITH LETTER OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, REPORT OF A SURVEY OF OHIO RIVER FROM MARIETTA, OHIO, TO PITTS- BURG, PA. JAmJARY 7, 1899.-Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, January 5, 1899. Sip: I have the honor to transmit herewith a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated January 5, 1899, together with copy of a report from Maj. W. H. Bixby, Corps of Engineers, dated December 28, 1898, of a survey made by him in compliance with the provisions of the river and harbor act of June 3, 1896, of Ohio River from Marietta, Ohio, to Pittsburg, Pa. Very respectfully, R. A. ALGER Secretary of Var. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY, Washington, D. C., January 5, 1899. SIR: The river and harbor act of June 3, 1896, contains an appro- priation for improving Ohio River, and provides that $25,000 of the amount appropriated may be expended in a survey of the river from Marietta, Ohio, to the city of Pittsburg, Pa., to ascertain the number of movable dams necessary to improve the river between the points mentioned to provide 6 feet of water at low water and the proper loca- tion of the necessary dams, as well as the probable cost thereof. Preliminary report on the sulject, submitted January 10, 1898, by Maj. W. H. Bixby, Corps of Engineers, was transmitted to Congress and printed in House Doc. No. 241, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session. In that report it was estimated that from thirteen to eighteen locks and dams would be required, at a cost of from $9,750,000 to $13,500,000. I have now the honor to submit the accompanying report, with maps, by Major Bixby, dated December 28, 1898, containing details of the results of this survey, together with a definite project for improvement, which provides for the construction of twelve locks and dams in that H. Doe. 65-1

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