Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Canal Zone |
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... Amount of tile erected on permanent shop buildings__ Amount of roof tile manufactured by American Cement Tile Co__ Amount of Barrett specification roofing erected in permanent shop buildings Horsepower of motors and their distribution ...
... Amount of tile erected on permanent shop buildings__ Amount of roof tile manufactured by American Cement Tile Co__ Amount of Barrett specification roofing erected in permanent shop buildings Horsepower of motors and their distribution ...
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... amount placed during the year was 91,576 cubic yards at 1 division cost of $ 1.4304 per cubic yard . The total amount of ma- terial used for back fill up to June 30 , 1914 , aggregated 2,119,406 bic yards placed behind the side walls at ...
... amount placed during the year was 91,576 cubic yards at 1 division cost of $ 1.4304 per cubic yard . The total amount of ma- terial used for back fill up to June 30 , 1914 , aggregated 2,119,406 bic yards placed behind the side walls at ...
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... amount of 病毒 the jock structure was 2.05 cubic yards . at a divis Mus1 yʻ EZLB20 per cubic yard . including finishing and cala colorea prodousy laid : in the construction of the control bo 902 Yale at a division cost of $ 625125 per ...
... amount of 病毒 the jock structure was 2.05 cubic yards . at a divis Mus1 yʻ EZLB20 per cubic yard . including finishing and cala colorea prodousy laid : in the construction of the control bo 902 Yale at a division cost of $ 625125 per ...
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... amount of all concrete laid in the Miraflores Locks ( exclusive of that used in the construction of the control house ) from the beginning of the work to the close of the fiscal year was 1,507,794 cubic yards at a division cost of ...
... amount of all concrete laid in the Miraflores Locks ( exclusive of that used in the construction of the control house ) from the beginning of the work to the close of the fiscal year was 1,507,794 cubic yards at a division cost of ...
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... amount spended was $ 29,652.32 , of which $ 17,078.58 were paid out under the contract and the balance for installation . The installation of the pumps for unwatering the gates was com- leted during the year . There are 40 pumps at ...
... amount spended was $ 29,652.32 , of which $ 17,078.58 were paid out under the contract and the balance for installation . The installation of the pumps for unwatering the gates was com- leted during the year . There are 40 pumps at ...
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amount Ancon April August average Balboa shops breakwater bridge buildings cable caissons Canal Zone cent Chagres River chamber charge coaling plant Coco Solo Colon completed concrete connection construction contract cranes Cristobal cubic yards Cucaracha slide Culebra Cut culvert December division cost dredging Dry Dock dump electrical elevation engineer equipment erection excavation February filling fiscal Gamboa gates Gatun Lake inches installation Isthmus January July June 18 June 30 linear feet lock-control lockage locomotives machines March material mechanical division Miraflores Lake Miraflores Locks months motors Mount Hope November October operation Panama Canal Panama Railroad Paraiso Pedro Miguel Locks piers plate pontoon Porto Bello pump station Quay wall rising-stem sewer side Sosa Hill spillway steel storage substation supply switchboard terminal tion tons Toro Point towing trestle trusses unloading upper lock valves velocity vessels volt ampere watt wharf yards of earth
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Page 551 - States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes," approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ******* "SEC. 6. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of
Page 598 - By virtue of authority vested in me by the Act approved April 6, 1914, entitled "An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes," a committee of six members is hereby created to arrange and provide suitable ceremonies for the
Page 580 - virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby enact the following order, creating a permanent organization for the Panama Canal, under the Act of Congress "To provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama Canal and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone,
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Page 569 - anything; multiply the quantity thus obtained by one-third of the common interval between the areas, and the product will be the cubical contents of the space, or cubical contents of each part if the ship is measured in parts under the tonnage deck. The tonnage of this volume is obtained
Page 569 - 2; to the sum of these products add the first and last breadths; multiply the whole sum by one-third of the common interval between the breadths, and the result will give in superficial feet the mean horizontal area of the space; measure the mean height of the space, and multiply
Page 569 - of the vessel. This rule for measuring the depth of the hold applies to double-bottom ships having top of double bottom not horizontal. If the depth at the midship division of the length does not exceed 16 feet, divide each depth into 5 equal parts; then measure the inside horizontal breadth at each of the four
Page 569 - of the stem to the lining on the timbers at the stern, and divide the length into the same number of equal parts into which the length of the tonnage deck is divided, as above directed ; measure (also at the middle of its height) the
Page 569 - of division, and also at the upper point of the depth; number them from above, as before; multiply the second, fourth, and sixth by 4, and the third and fifth by 2; add these products together, and to the sum add the first breadth and the seventh.
Page 556 - the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: « * * * * * * BELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, $20,000. ***«**• Approved, June 30, 1914.