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3534 1 (1896-1897)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32981 and id is 1 raw text is: )A4TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I DOCUMENT 2d Session. ( No. 252. SURVEY OF SHIP ISLAND HARBOR, MISSISSIPPI SOUND. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, TRANSMITTING, WITH A LETTER FROM THE ACTING CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, REPORT OF A SURVEY OF SHIP ISLAND HARBOR IN THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND. FEBRUARY 3, 1897.-Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., February 2, 1897. SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith a letter from the Acting Chief of Engineers, dated January 30, 1897, together with a copy of a report from Maj. William T. Rossell, Corps of Engineers, dated January 23, 1897, of a survey made by him in compliance with the provisions of the river and harbor act of June 3, 1896, of Ship Island Harbor in the Mississippi Sound. Very respectfully, DANIEL S. LAMONT, Secretary of War. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY, Washington, D. C., January 30, 1897. SIR: I have the honor to submit the accompanying copy of report, dated January 23, 1897, with map, by Maj. William T. Rossell, Corps of Engineers, of the results of a survey of Ship Island Harbor in the Mississippi Sound, to determine the most practicable route from said harbor for a deep-water channel leading to the mainland on the coast of Mississippi, made to comply with the provisions of the river and harbor act of June 3, 1896. Major Rossell discusses the merits of four localities on the mainland in considering the question of the most practicable route for the channel contemplated. The points considered are: (1) Mouth of East Pearl River, (2) Gulfport, (3) Biloxi, and (4) mouth of Pascagoula River. He states that it is practicable to dredge a channel to any one of the places H. Doc. 5S-1

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