Estimate of additional funds required. Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, APPROPRIATIONS. Previous to adoption of present project....... $45,000 June 13, 1902. March 3, 1905. June 30, 1903. March 2, 1907. March 4, 1907. March 3, 1909. Total...... Receipts from sales and for injuries to dredge.... Aggregate..... a $1,005, 000. 00 250,000.00 100,000.00 100, 000. 00 113,000.00 50,000.00 20, 000. 00 1,638, 000. 00 132.50 1,638, 132. 50 CONTRACT IN FORCE. CONTRACT FOR FURNISHING CRUDE OIL. Name of contractor: H. S. Botsford. Contract entered into June 30, 1908; approved July 20, 1908. Deliveries to begin July 1, 1908. Contract completed June 30, 1909. Twenty thousand barrels of oil for fuel for dredge, at 90 cents per barrel. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1908. Foreign commerce, 13,460 tons; domestic commerce, 992,237 tons; total, 1,005,697 tons-a decrease of 10 per cent from the preceding year. NOTE. In this report the estimated weight of Oregon pine has been reduced from 4,000 pounds (as in former reports) to 3,300 pounds per 1,000 feet. Redwood is estimated at 4,000 pounds per 1,000 feet. These weights are taken because of their use by the lumbermen in estimating shipments. Using 4,000 pounds for the weight of both redwood and pine the commerce for 1908 would amount to 1,136,584 tons. a House Document No. 421, Fifty-seventh Congress, second session. RR 4. IMPROVEMENT OF SAN LUIS OBISPO HARBOR, CALIFORNIA. Under continuing contract entered into with the San Francisco Bridge Company, of San Francisco, Cal., for the delivery in the breakwater of 151,140 tons of stone at $1.57 per ton, work was begun in August, 1908, and 9,205 tons of stone was delivered and placed in the breakwater up to December 8, 1908, when work was suspended for the winter. The small amount of work accomplished during this time was due to the rough weather and especially to shoaling of the channels around Morro Rock quarry. On account of the shoal water around the quarry it has been impossible to get a lighter to the quarry so far this season, and the contractor has been authorized by the department to delay the work during this working season until the depth of these channels shall improve. The contractor has an efficient plant and when local conditions permit will be able to make good progress. CONTRACT FOR COMPLETING BREAKWATER. Name of contractor: San Francisco Bridge Company. Contract entered into July 16, 1907; approved August 15, 1907. Work to begin May 1, 1908. Contract to be completed: Indefinite, depending upon appropriations by Congress. Contract for delivering in breakwater 151,140 tons of stone, at $1.57 per ton. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1908. Total amount of freight entered and cleared in 1908, 1,071,469 tons, a decrease of 2 per cent from the preceding year. APPENDIX SS. IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS IN THE FIRST SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, DISTRICT. REPORT OF LIEUT. COL. JOHN BIDDLE, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, OFFICER IN CHARGE, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1909. 1. Oakland Harbor, California. 2. San Pablo Bay, California. 3. San Joaquin River, California. IMPROVEMENTS. 4. Stockton and Mormon channels, California. 5. Mokelumne River, California. 6. Petaluma Creek and Napa River, California. 7. Humboldt Harbor and Bay, California. 8. Removing sunken vessels or craft obstructing or endangering navigation. UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual report of river and harbor works under my charge for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. Very respectfully, JOHN BIDDLE, Lieut. Col., Corps of Engineers. The CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY. SS I. IMPROVEMENT OF OAKLAND HARBOR, CALIFORNIA. At the beginning of the year two dredging contracts were in force, one with Marshall C. Harris for making a 25-foot channel 300 feet wide from the bay up to Fallon street. The price paid was 10.5 cents per cubic yard, place measurement. This contract was completed on August 10, 1908, and the quantity of material removed under this contract during the fiscal year was 84,312 cubic yards, the total contract involving 1,812,462 cubic yards. The other contract was with the San Francisco Bridge Company for a 300-foot channel 25 feet deep from Fallon street to the Tidal Basin, and a 300-foot channel 17 feet deep around both sides of the basin. This contract was still in force at the close of the fiscal year. The price paid was 18.8 cents per cubic yard, place measurement, and the quantity of material removed under this contract during the fiscal year was 1,042,622 cubic yards. The total contract is about 2,000,000 cubic yards. A new contract for dredging was entered into on February 13, 1909, with N. R. Harris, for widening the city front channel 100 feet on the north side, the depth remaining the same, namely, 25 feet at low water. The price paid was 29.7 cents per cubic yard, place measurement, and the quantity of material removed under this contract during the fiscal year was 174,791 cubic yards. The total contract is about 400,000 cubic yards, practically all hardpan. The Park Street and Fruitvale Avenue bridges have recently been repaired and repainted and are in fair condition for service. The High street highway bridge was seriously damaged by fire on May 21, 1909. Specifications are now being prepared for renewing and repairing such parts as may be necessary, the work to be done early in the coming year. The work of reflooring the Fruitvale Avenue Bridge was completed August 11, 1908, under emergency contract with the Healy-Tibbits Construction Company. In explanation of the increase of $500,000 in carrying out the project for improving Oakland Harbor the following history of this improvement is given: In the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1901 three projects were made of Oakland Harbor and so submitted. In the act of June 30, 1902, funds were appropriated for improving the harbor without specifying which of the three plans would be adopted. These funds were used on work common to all three projects. In the act of March 3, 1905, project No. 3, for which an estimate of $968,203 had been made, was specifically adopted and further funds appropriated and authorized, the work, however, being restricted to certain portions of the project. In obedience to resolution of the River and Harbor Committee of Congress the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, under date of June 11, 1907, gave a full history of the work up to that date and recommended completion of project No. 3, and providing for additional funds estimated to complete that project. The work done up to that date had been done at a much lower figure than had been estimated for. This was due to the contractor being able to sell the material dredged, which probably can not be done so advantageously in future operations. There were, therefore, to be under the amount estimated, some funds remaining, and the Board recommended that these funds should be used for such further extension of the improvement as might be found necessary. The act of March 2, 1907, provided for the amount remaining to make up the estimate of $968,203-that is, $368,203-and further stated that any amounts heretofore appropriated and authorized should be used in addition. The previous authorizations were $146,000, so that the total amount for completion of the project then in force would be about $514,203. The same act, however, while stating that the projected improvement should be extended as recommended by the Board of Review on Rivers and Harbors in their report of July 11, 1907, further specified the work that should be done. This work directed by Congress and which represents the final and present project is much more extensive than project No. 3. Both projects appear in the summary of the |