Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its TributariesHulbert, Archer Butler
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Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its Tributaries
Hulbert, Archer Butler
Ohio River
Lock, including cofferdam, excavations, foundations,
masonry, timber, and ironwork of fixed and movable
parts, power plant, machinery, and accessories $350,000
Navigable pass; same items as above 150,000
Weirs, piers, abutments; same items as above 170,000
Miscellaneous, including local surveys, purchase of
sites, embanking, retaining, riprapping, and paving
of banks, lock employees' houses, storehouses,
other buildings, dredging of approaches to locks
and passes, dredging of shoals and removal of
obstructions in pools, engineering work of
location, construction, and inspection, office
work of engineering and disbursements, and other
contingencies 200,000
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Total $870,000
But the extra width and height of lock esplanade filling, extra length
of weirs, and extra channel dredging, incident to the individual
locations of the dams, increase the above estimates to final totals of
from nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars to one million, one hundred
thousand dollars at the individual dams.
The expenditures of the Government on the Ohio River from 1827 to 1902
are as follows:
_Act of Congress._ _Appropriation._ _Remarks._
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March 3, 1827, $30,000.00
March 3, 1835, 50,000.00
July 2, 1836, 20,000.00
March 3, 1837, 60,000.00
July 7, 1838, 50,000.00
June 11, 1844, 100,000.00
March 3, 1847, 6,479.25
August 30, 1852, 90,000.00
June 23, 1866, 172,000.00 Allotment of money already
appropriated, for improving
Mississippi, Missouri,
Arkansas, and Ohio Rivers.
June 23, 1866, 80,000.00 Allotment for snag boats and
apparatus for improving
western rivers.
March 2, 1867, 100,000.00
July 25, 1868, 85,000.00 Allotment for repair,
preservation, extension,
and completion of
river and harbor works.
July 11, 1870, 50,000.00
March 3, 1871, 50,000.00
June 10, 1872, 200,000.00
March 3, 1873, 200,000.00
June 23, 1874, 150,000.00
March 3, 1875, 300,000.00
August 14, 1876, 175,000.00
June 18, 1878, 300,000.00
June 18, 1878, 50,000.00 Harbor of refuge at or near
Cincinnati.
March 3, 1879, 250,000.00
June 14, 1880, 250,000.00
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