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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32877 and id is 1 raw text is: 54TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I DOCUMENT 1st 88ion. No. 280. EXAMINATION OF STEAMBOAT SLOUGH, CALIFORNIA. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, TRANSMITITNG, With a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of Steamboat Slough, and from junction thereof with Sacramento River to mouth of said river. MARCH 5, 1896.-Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. ' WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., March 4, 1896. Sm: I have the honor to inclose herewith a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated February 29, 1896, together with a copy of a report from Capt. C. E. Gillette, Corps of Engineers, dated February 12, 1896, of a survey made by him in compliance with the provisions of the river and harbor act of August 17, 1894, of Steamboat Channel, and from junction thereof with Sacramento River to mouth of said river. Very respectfully, DANIEL S. LAMONT Secretary of ar. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. OFFICE OF THE CIHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES AEMY, Washington, D. C., February 29, 1896. Sm: The river and harbor act of August 17, 1894, provides for a pre- liminary examination of Steamboat Channel, and from junction thereof with Sacramento River to mouth of said river, with a view to improve- ment, enlargement of navigable channel, and to increase capacity for flood discharge, and I have now the honor to submit the accompanying copy of report of Capt. C. E. Gillette, Corps of Engineers, dated the 12th instant, upon the results of the examination required. Captain Gillette considers that, as far as navigation is concerned, Steamboat Slough is not worthy of improvement by the United States, which opinion is concurred in by the division engineer, Col. C. R. Suter, Corps of Engineers, and by me. Respecting the increase of capacity for flood discharge, Captain Gil- lette gives a r6sum6 of the existing conditions and of the complications H. Doc. 61-1

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