Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Canal Zone |
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... feet above sea level . October 30 , 1913 . Culebra Cut , Empire . Looking south from suspension bridge . Surface of water 72.3 feet above sea level . October 30 , 1913 . Culebra Cut , looking north from one - fourth mile south of ...
... feet above sea level . October 30 , 1913 . Culebra Cut , Empire . Looking south from suspension bridge . Surface of water 72.3 feet above sea level . October 30 , 1913 . Culebra Cut , looking north from one - fourth mile south of ...
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... feet of additional rack ins were made at the Balboa shops . At Gatun Locks 1,182 linear of rack section were laid , 3,438 linear feet concreted in , and a of 4.082 linear feet completed , making a total completed to te of 22.185 linear feet ...
... feet of additional rack ins were made at the Balboa shops . At Gatun Locks 1,182 linear of rack section were laid , 3,438 linear feet concreted in , and a of 4.082 linear feet completed , making a total completed to te of 22.185 linear feet ...
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... feet were laid , 8,160 feet concreted in , making 9,104 linear feet completed during the year , or a total to date of 18,144 linear feet . Of the total amount to be completed , 54,365 linear feet , 99.3 per cent were completed at the ...
... feet were laid , 8,160 feet concreted in , making 9,104 linear feet completed during the year , or a total to date of 18,144 linear feet . Of the total amount to be completed , 54,365 linear feet , 99.3 per cent were completed at the ...
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... feet of 2/0 Brown & Sharpe gauge tranded copper and 512,065 feet of five - sixteenths inch copper - clad vire . At the close of the fiscal year 1,408,443 feet of 2/0 conductor able were erected . The total amount expended on the ...
... feet of 2/0 Brown & Sharpe gauge tranded copper and 512,065 feet of five - sixteenths inch copper - clad vire . At the close of the fiscal year 1,408,443 feet of 2/0 conductor able were erected . The total amount expended on the ...
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... feet wide , and 6 feet 3 inches deep at the center Hedley end the al 38 feet above the bottom of the barge , or 30 Poop the wara level . The apron girders are 64 feet long , rest kad uppers at both ends , and consist of spare lock gate ...
... feet wide , and 6 feet 3 inches deep at the center Hedley end the al 38 feet above the bottom of the barge , or 30 Poop the wara level . The apron girders are 64 feet long , rest kad uppers at both ends , and consist of spare lock gate ...
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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,
Page 287 - when any material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable, it may be sold in such manner as the President may direct, and without advertising in such classes of cases as may be authorized by him.
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.