ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - Canal Zone Report for 1914/15 is accompanied by a portfolio of maps and diagrams (plates no. 73 to 134). |
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... _ - _- Handrails . Intake screens , center and side walls . Lamp standards . Lighting , townsite and range --- 74 75 10 13 13 12 75 75 75 75 1 : Report of the engineer of maintenance - Continued IV TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... _ - _- Handrails . Intake screens , center and side walls . Lamp standards . Lighting , townsite and range --- 74 75 10 13 13 12 75 75 75 75 1 : Report of the engineer of maintenance - Continued IV TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... Side seals of valves__ Top - gate seal_____ Piers and side seals . Roller trains___ . Conclusions Miter forcing machines_ Painting ---- Regulating valves_ . Repair pits ---- Repair shops___ Snubbing buttons_ Spare parts ---- Spillway ...
... Side seals of valves__ Top - gate seal_____ Piers and side seals . Roller trains___ . Conclusions Miter forcing machines_ Painting ---- Regulating valves_ . Repair pits ---- Repair shops___ Snubbing buttons_ Spare parts ---- Spillway ...
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... side seal 9. Gatun Locks . One and one - half inch steel nuts from cylindrical valve . 10. Electrolytic action on impeller and lower casing head of one of the twenty- inch floating caisson pumps . 11. Electrolytic action on impeller and ...
... side seal 9. Gatun Locks . One and one - half inch steel nuts from cylindrical valve . 10. Electrolytic action on impeller and lower casing head of one of the twenty- inch floating caisson pumps . 11. Electrolytic action on impeller and ...
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... side . 75. Chagres River drainage basin . Alhajuela average monthly discharges . 76. Gatun Lake watershed . season 1916 . Total yield for Gatun Lake , year 1915 , and dry 77. Gatun Lake and Chagres River hydrographs . Typical freshets ...
... side . 75. Chagres River drainage basin . Alhajuela average monthly discharges . 76. Gatun Lake watershed . season 1916 . Total yield for Gatun Lake , year 1915 , and dry 77. Gatun Lake and Chagres River hydrographs . Typical freshets ...
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... side of slide barrier across canal , showing 15 - yard dipper at work . November 16 , 1915 . 58. South shore of Limon Bay . groins . June , 1916 . Looking west from canal , showing dikes and Following plates , 94 to 97 , in portfolio ...
... side of slide barrier across canal , showing 15 - yard dipper at work . November 16 , 1915 . 58. South shore of Limon Bay . groins . June , 1916 . Looking west from canal , showing dikes and Following plates , 94 to 97 , in portfolio ...
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Agua Clara amount Ancon April asphaltic concrete August average back fill basin blocks building caisson Canal Zone cast-iron cent Chagres River coaling plant Coco Solo Colon completed construction Corozal Cristobal cubic yards Culebra cylinders December district Division expense dredges Dry Dock east electrical Ending June 30 engineer equipment February feet of 6-inch filtered water Fiscal Year Ending Gaillard Cut gallons Gamboa gates Gatun Lake grading hydroelectric hydroelectric station inches installed Isthmus January July June 30 linear feet lockages maintenance March material miscellaneous month Mount Hope November Number of samples Number of test October operation Panama Canal Panama Railroad Company Paraiso Pedro Miguel pier pipe laid placed Plate pounds pumps purification plant raw water Repairs Reservoir rock Sept September ships spillway square yards standard units steel TABLE test days tion Total cost Total division cost total number Trace vessels wall wharf yards of excavation
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Page 611 - An Act to establish a United States Shipping Board for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries ; to regulate carriers by water engaged in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States ; and for other purposes.
Page 625 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer to pay damages in respect thereof, the...
Page 634 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 627 - Sec. 9. That any vessel purchased, chartered, or leased from the board, by persons who are citizens of the United States, may be registered or enrolled and licensed, or both registered and enrolled and licensed, as a vessel of the United States...
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Page 614 - ... as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery^ and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales ; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus...
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