Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Canal Zone |
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... side - wall culvert . Filling curve for 900 - foot lock through east culvert , using two valves . Pedro Miguel Lock . Characteristics of side - wall culvert . Filling curve for 900 - foot lock through east culvert , using one valve . 4 ...
... side - wall culvert . Filling curve for 900 - foot lock through east culvert , using two valves . Pedro Miguel Lock . Characteristics of side - wall culvert . Filling curve for 900 - foot lock through east culvert , using one valve . 4 ...
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... side pressure in the vicinity of Culebra , si grading and filling at the locks and dams , combined in a general -straction division , report directly to the Governor . The division of canal transportation , under the supervision of a ...
... side pressure in the vicinity of Culebra , si grading and filling at the locks and dams , combined in a general -straction division , report directly to the Governor . The division of canal transportation , under the supervision of a ...
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... side of the canal was concentrated . The Atlantic division , embracing the same construction work as exribed in the last annual report , continued in charge of Lieut . William L. Sibert , United States Army , as division engineer ...
... side of the canal was concentrated . The Atlantic division , embracing the same construction work as exribed in the last annual report , continued in charge of Lieut . William L. Sibert , United States Army , as division engineer ...
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... side of the locks . The back filling of the side walls , made of material ob- tained from borrow pits , was continued until December 19 , 1913 , then the status of available money necessitated discontinuing further work . The amount ...
... side of the locks . The back filling of the side walls , made of material ob- tained from borrow pits , was continued until December 19 , 1913 , then the status of available money necessitated discontinuing further work . The amount ...
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... side wal was completed in March , 1914 , and the filling of the center wall i February , 1914. During the fiscal year 27,750 cubic yards of ma terial were placed behind the side walls , at a division cost of $ 1.114 per cubic yard , and ...
... side wal was completed in March , 1914 , and the filling of the center wall i February , 1914. During the fiscal year 27,750 cubic yards of ma terial were placed behind the side walls , at a division cost of $ 1.114 per cubic yard , and ...
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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,
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.