KEPORT
O!?
WM. B. FOSTER, JR.,
ENGINEER
ON THE
NORTH BRANCH CANAL.
EEPOKT.
To the Board of Canal Commissioners :
Gentlemen:—I have the honor to submit the following report upon the North
Branch Pennsylvania canal, which has been in my charge, as engineer, since the re¬
sumption of operations thereon in the latter part of the year 1849. As no formal
report has been presented in regard to this work since that of 1841, it may not be
inappropriate to recapitulate, on this occasion, something of its history and progress
since its commencement. This canal, formerly designated as the " North Branch
Extension," extends from the termination of thé finished North Branch canal, at the
head of Wyoming valley, in Luzerne county, along the valley of the Susquehanna, a
distance of 94j%ig miles, to the line dividing the States of Pennsylvania and New
York, only requiring about seventeen miles of canal to be made to connect with the
Chemung canal, of the State of New York, at Elmira, and through the latter, with
the whole chain of internal navigation of that State.
In the year 1836 thirty-five and three-fourths miles of this work, commencing at
the village of Athens, in Bradford county (about four miles below the State line),
and ending at Wyalusing creek, were placed under contract, and in 1888 all of the
heavi/ hluff sections between the latter point and the mouth of Lackawanna were also
contracted for, the portion between the State lino and the village of Athens (four
miles) not having been located until the present year. The entire length of this
improvement, as before stated, is ninety-four and twenty-one hundredths miles, and
the lockage, from a level assumed at the State line to the level of the Wyoming divi¬
sion, two hundred and eleven and an half feet. Some idea may be formed of the
magnitude of the work, and the difiiculties encountered in its construction, when it is
stated that for one-third of its length it is located along the foot of steep rocky blufiFs
and partially in the river, requiring for this distance of over thirty-one miles, a slope
wall for the protection of the bank. This walling was mostly done before the suspen¬
sion of the work in 1841, and has served to protect the work in an admirable manner
against the encroachments of the river during the highest and most violent ice floods.
Upon the work placed under contract in 1836 and 1888 such force was employed as
the annual appropriations justified, until the year 1841, and the sum of two millions
four hundred and eighty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty
cents were expended at the time of suspension. The whole length of finished canal
at that time was thirty-two and an half miles. The finished sections and incidental
work was not, however, connected so that any portion of the line could be available
for navigable purposes. The details of the location are in the reports of 1886, '87,
and '38, and can readily be referred to. The progress and condition of the different
descriptions of work prior to suspension are set forth in detail in a report I had the
honor to submit to the Canal Commissioners at the close of the year 1841, and to
which reference may be had. In the year 1846 I made an examination and an esti¬
mate of the cost of completing the North Branch canal, for a company which had
been organized under an act of assembly, and at that time I was of opinion that the
work could be brought into use for a sum but little exceeding eleven hundred thou-
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sand dollars. I advert to this estimate and report for the reason that it has not un-
frequently been quoted in the discussion of the propriety of resuming and completing
the work.
I am still of the opinion that if the work had been resumed at that time, and
promptly prosecuted under the auspices of a judicious company, that it could have
been brought into use for the sum then estimated. A large amoupt of perishable
work, which, at that period (1846) would have been available for a few years after
completion, is now so far decayed as to render its entire renewal absolutely necessary.
It will also be borne in mind that at the period in question, the amount of public
work in progress throughout the Union was small compared with that now in the
market, and that it may be safely stated, regarding supply and demand, that work can
not now be done for less than an advance of fifteen to twenty per cent, upon prices
which would have been remunerating in the year 1846.
By a reference to the report of 1841, to which I have heretofore alluded, it will be
seen that the amount of work remaining to be done, computed at the then existing
contract prices, was one million four hundred and fourteen thousand one hundred and
sixteen dollars and three cents. We now come to the period of resuming the work
under the auspices of the Commonwealth.
As soon as the Canal Commissioners were notified of the first appropriation towards
completing the North Branch, Pennsylvania canal (in 1849), and the work placed
under my charge as chief engineer, I proceeded to organize a corps, and re-locate and
prepare for contract twenty-six sections, amounting in the aggregate, to a length of
eight and one-fourth miles; and accordingly, on the 19th of November, 1849, this
amount of work was allotted to contractors. The work first selected to be placed in
progress, embraced the heavier hluff sections, and did not include any mechanical
structure liable to decay or injury. From the paucity of the appropriation, and con¬
sequently limited amount of work thus under way, it was with difiiculty that any
considerable force of laborers could be induced to the line, and but a small amount of
work was done, until the spring of the following year.
By the act of the 10th May, 1850, an additional appropriation of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars was made towards completing this work, and on the third of
June of that year, I was directed by the Canal Commissioners to prepare for letting
further portions of the work. On the 15th and 19th of July, 1850, proposals were
received for seventy-three sections (aggregate length thirty-seven and a half miles) ;
two dams across the Susquehanna river—the masonry of ten Aqueducts—twenty-one
locks and nine culverts. It is thus seen that the total length of canal placed under
contract in pursuance of the acts of Assembly of April 10, 1849, and of May 10,
1850, is forty-five and three-fourth miles. The working season of the year 1850, had
nearly passed, before this work, last alluded to, was placed under contract, and at the
close of that fiscal year, the total value of work done was one hundred and forty-three
thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and nineteen cents. By the act of As¬
sembly of the 15th April, 1851, a further appropriation of one hundred and seventy-
five thousand dollars was specifically made, and a contingent appropriation of one-
half the surplus revenues, after paying other appropriations, to be applied to the com¬
pletion of the North Branch canal. In view of the limited amount of work we had
been able to accomplish, up to the close of the year 1850, it was deemed advisable,
early in 1851, to receive proposals for all of the sections (except the repairs to those
formerly finished) remaining to be placed under contract ; and accordingly, after due
notice, bids were received on the day of June last, which were canvassed by
the Canal Commissioners in the latter part of July following.
By the time that the board had examined the proposals, it beeame manifest that
all of the existing appropriations would be exhausted by the close of the fiscal year,
and hence the prudential course of declining to incur further liabilities on the part of
the State, until the means were appropriated to meet them.
By the tabular statement, which accompanies this report, it will be seen that the
whole amount of work done from the time of resuming operations on this canal in
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1849, up to the 20th October, 1851, is six hundred and six thousand five hundred
and forty-eight dollars and eleven cents. This statement, however, only embraces
the work done under contract for sections and mechanical work, and does not include
the disbursements for cement for the masonry, iron and spikes for locks, fencing, re¬
moving buildings, instruments, stationery, printing, superintendence, engineering, and
sundry incidental expenses. These latter expenditures are not subject of estimate,
but are paid on bills certified by the Engineer to the Superintendent, and appear of
record on the books of the latter.
The value of work done from the 1st December, 1850, to the 20th October, 1851,
is four hundred and sixty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars ^^and
ninety-two cents.
I have, in the tabular statement referred to, only brought up the estimate of work
done to the 20th October, instead of adopting the usual custom of extending it to the
end of the fiscal year j for the reason that at the former period (20th October) the
whole amount of appropriations was expended. Since that date a considerable amount
of work has been done ; and several of the contractors continue to prosecute their jobs,
and intend doing so during the winter.
It is much to be regretted that means could not. be obtained for pushing on the
work without interruption, as every stoppage not only goes to increase the ultimate
cost, but seriously affects the business operations of the contractors, as well as those
of all connected with or dependent upon its progress.
During the remarkably favorable season just closed, the greatest possible amount
of work was done that our limited means justified, and the line is now in such
state of forwardness that in all of the year 1852 it may be fini.shed, and brought into
use early in the season of 1853. The following recapitulation of the tabular state¬
ment is here inserted to avoid the necessity of reference :
The total estimated cost of this canal, dating from the time of its resumption in
1849, is one million three hundred and ninety-eight thousand nine hundred and fifty-
seven dollars and eighty-seven cents.
The amount appropriated by the several acts of 1849, 1850, and 1851, is five hun¬
dred and seventy-five thousand dollars; to which, if we add the contingent appropria¬
tion of 1851, assumed at fifty thousand dollars, it gives a total of six hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum, deducted from the total estimated cost, leaves
seven hundred and seventy-three thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars and
eighty-seven cents as the amount yet to be appropriated for completion. I had hoped,
until recently, that this canal might be finished for a sum considerably less than my
estimate of 1841; but the amount of perishable material used in the dams, locks,
bridges, and waste-weirs, and which has, after the lapse of twelve years, become so
far decayed as to require renewal, forbids the idea that it can be completed much
below that estimate.
A heavy item of expenditure occurs in the renewal of nearly the entire body of
dam No. 2. It was not until the present season that this work was opened up so as
to ascertain with certainty whether it might be relied upon, without placing new and
sound timbers, instead of those partially decayed ; and it has been deemed prudent
(to make it safe beyond contingency) to build anew nearly the whole of this structure.
To guard against injury to the canal f.om the lateral streams, which might result from
a freshet similar to that of July, 1850, it became necessary to materially increase the
water way under the canal.
To effect this object six small aqueducts and six culverts have been added to the
number that had always been deemed adequate, and three aqueducts substituted for
culverts ; also, the capacity of other culverts materially enlarged. One instance oc¬
curred (that at Gardner's creek, on section 177) where the flood in the creek made
an additional channel and out-let, rendering üoo aqueducts necesSary, when but one
had been contemplated. Some difficnlty has been, experienced, and additional cost
incurred, from the presence of quicksand at two points on the line. This occurs on
section No. 80, where the location of the lock was changed and the level raised, pass-
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ing the quicksand points, and cribbing resorted to for the purpose of retaining the
towing path.
On section No. 191 it was found necessary to resort to piling for the foundation of
the aqueduct over the Lackawanna, which adds materially to the expense of construc¬
tion. At two points on the line the land slides from the mountain side have proved
much more troublesome and expensive than I had apprehended, involving, in one case,
a resort to a heavy stone wall to protect the canal after it shall have been brought
into use.
The number of sections finished since the resumption of the work is thirty-eight—
aggregate length, eighteen miles, which, added to the finished work prior to suspension
(thirty-two and a half miles), gives fifty and a half miles as the portion now com¬
pleted.
I have frequently been asked the question why the monies appropriated to the
North Branch canal have not been applied towards bringing into use some portion
of it. The reply to this very natural question is, that this canal forms the connecting
link in the great chain of internal navigation of the States of New York and Penn¬
sylvania, and is mainly valuable as a whole. It is true, that a local business in lumber,
coal, merchandize, &c., might be done upon a portion of it, but not, in my judgment,
sufficient to make it a paying work.
The great and increasing market for our coal and iron to be found in the State of
New York, and beyond there in the region of the great lakes, is what is to make the
North Branch canal (as a whole) equal in point of productiveness, if not superior, to
the best paying canal owned by Pennsylvania. Is it not, therefore, the dictate of
wisdom and sound policy to raise the means at once for a vigorous prosecution, and
early completion, of this valuable and important work ? We now have an investment
in it of over throe millions one hundred thousand dollars The interest on this in¬
vestment, at six per cent, per annum, would, in four years, nearly equal the sum now
required to complete it. But I beg to remark, in this connection, that the sum esti¬
mated for completion is upon the assumption that means will be provided for pro¬
gressing without delay.
If the money is only to be obtained in such sums as to consume four or five years
in accomplishing that which may be done in fifteen or eightcn months, no human fore¬
sight, nor professional skill and experience can determine, with any degree of accu¬
racy. the ultimate cost.
It will readily be perceived that every year's delay is productive of loss, in the
decay of the mechanical structures—the filling in of the canal from the mountain
slopes and various contingencies, in addition to the increased cost of superintendence
and engineering, to say nothing of the interest on the investment.
No portion of the public works of Pennsylvania has superior, if equal resources,
from which to draw a tonnage to make it highly remunerative, as the North Branch
canal.
Anthracite coal, of superior quality, and in quantity sufficient to produce a million
of tons for one hundred generations, is at the southern end of the work we are con¬
sidering, and, as I have before stated, an ample field for an immense consumption is
beyond its northern terminus. The rapid increase in the consumption of this article,
fully justifies me in the opinion that before five years shall have elapsed, after the
completion of this canal, at least half a million of tons will pass northward upon it
annually, to say nothing of the iron, lumber, salt, plaster, merchandize, &c., which
must be carried both ways. Now in this one item of anthracite coal we have a sun^
and reliable tonnage, more than sufficient to pay the interest upon the whole cost of
this canal. Assuming five hundred thousand tons of coal as the basis of our calcu¬
lations, and this one item would yield, at the rate of toll fixed by act of Assembly
(one cent per ton per mile), for ninety-four miles, the sum of four hundred and
seventy thousand dollars. The interest upon the whole cost of this work, if we as¬
sume four millions as the maximum (and it cannot reach that sum), at six per cent.
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por atmuiii, would be two hundred and forty thousand dollars, to which add forty-
seven thousand dollars, being at the rate of five hundred dollars per mile per annum
for superintendence and repairs, and we have two hundred and eighty-seven thousand
dollars as the sum necessary to he received to pay interest on cost and maintain the
navigation, annually. It is thus shown that the coal tonnage alone will yield one
hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars, annually, over the amount required for
maintaining the work and paying the interest on its entire cost.
It may he said that this is an exaggerated statement of the coal business, hut my
deliberate judgment is, that I have assumed a smaller amount than the result will
show to he true.
In this view of the question, I am strengthened by an examination of the statistics
of this present product of Pennsylvania. By reference to these tables, it will he
seen that the product of the year 1846 (only five years past) was a little over two
millions, three hundred thousand tons, while the product of 1851 will reach nearly,
if not quite, four millions, five hundred thousand tons, and it is believed that the
market has been as active during the year 1851, as at any former period since its in¬
troduction into general use.
In considering the probable revenue to be derived from the North Branch canal, 1
have omitted any estimate of tonnage, other than anthracite coal, because 1 have an
abiding confidence, that merely as an avenue for this article alone, it would be a
highly productive work ; but it would be by no means deficient in other articles of
tonnage, which would go to swell the receipts largely beyond what has been stated.
Let us compare its advantages, in this respect, with the Delaware division of the
Pennsylvania canal, which has become a productive work, at very low rates of toll
upon coal. Upon this division of the State works there is, comparatively, a small
amount of return freight, while from its locality and connections, the North Branch
canal must carry southward plaster, salt, lime, cement, lumber, and miscellaneous
freight, in exchange for the coal and iron sent northward. In fact, my deliberate
opinion is, that in a few years after this work shall be brought into use, its business
and revenues will only be limited by the amount of tonnage that can be passed upon
it. The condition of this work, and the prospect it offers of becoming a highly
remunerative one, justifies the belief, that if it were the property of an individual, or
of an association of individuals, that it would be completed in the shortest possible
time, even if they had to make sacrifices to raise the money for its accomplishment.
Then why not the Coinmonwealth adopt a financial policy that would govern individ¬
uals similarly circumstanced, especially when the sum required, could readily be ob¬
tained by a sale of bonds at par, if not for a small premium. The citizens of Penn¬
sylvania, interested in this improvement, think they have a right to ask a prompt com¬
pletion of it. For more than ten years, those residing along the line, have suffered
the annoyance and inconvenience of having their fertile fields marred and divided by
an unsightly, partially finished work, and during all that time, in no portion of the
Commonwealth have the taxes, necessary to sustain the credit of the State, been more
cheerfully and 'promptly paid.
At the time of the greatest commercial and State embarrassment, when the idea of
repudiation was not only entertained but expressed, and that too, in portions of the
State having costly improvements made at the expense of the Commonwealth, that
doctrine found no advocates among the people of the North Branch. They met all
the requirements of the State authorities, patiently awaiting the time when defcrre.l
justice would be meted out to them in the completion of their long cherished but ne¬
glected improvement. They do not go to the Legislature to ask an expenditure upon
a work of doubtful character. The tonnage, to make it profitable to the State, is at
its southern end, and an ample market beyond its northern terminus—a market suffi-'
cient, not only to make it produce the interest upon its whole cost, but to yield lara-ely,
bcyoud that limit, in aid of the liquidation of our State debt. In conclusion, I can-
not too strongly urge the policy of an immediate appropriation of one hundred thou-
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sand dollars, to meet the pressing demands of those contractors who are urging forward
their work, and before the close of the approaching session of the Legislature, an
additional sum, suflScient to complete the canal early in the season of 185o.
All which is respectfully submitted.
WM. B. FOSTER, Jk.,
a E. N. B. Fa. Vanal.
Towanda, Dec. 30, 1851.
TABULAE STATEMENT,
Showing the amount of Work done on the North Branch Penneyloania Canal, from the time of the resumption, in 1849, up to the 20iÄ of
October, 1851; also, the amount remaining to he done, and the estimated cost of completing the same; with the amount paid, and amount
remaining due, so far as under Contract.
Value of work
done up to Oct.
20th, 1851.
Value of work
remaining to be
done to complete.
Total estimated
cost.
Amount paid.
Amount
retained.
Remarks.
$2,129 35
7,477 84
14,752 16
18,344 37
1,556 10
18,629 20
$2,794 90
2,608 10
3,560 03
$4,924 25
7,477 84
14,752 16
18,344 37
4,164 20
6,106 14
6,743 13
9,339 96
$1,810 00
7,477 84
14,752 16
18,344 37
1,323 00
1 15,835 00
$319 35
233 10
2,794 20
Completed.
Do.
Do.
4,418 50
1,703 41
6,121 91
3,756 00
662 50
37,687 00
2,290 41
50,919 00
2,066 25
11,316 00
20,320 00
56,970 00
4,356 66
1 32,034 00
1,947 00
5,653 00
343 41
7,926 40
3,152 40
11,078 80
- 6,738 00
1,188 40
13,247 30
4,893 00
2,854 62
1,056 53
16,101 92
5,949 53
11,260 00
4,159 00
1,987 30
734 00
501 00
5,328 82
5,829 82
426 00
75 00
2,340 00
2,340 23
2,340 23
Completed
12,530 23
784 52
13,314 52
~ 10,650 00
1,880 00
KIND OF WORK.
Section,
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It
No. 10,
" 11,
" 12,
" 21,
" 22,
" 23,
" 1,
" 5,
" 24,
" 5,
" 27,
7,
Aqueduct,
Lock,
Section,
Lock,
Section,
Lock,
Dam, 2, and sehnte.
Section, No. 29,
it
Aqueduct,
Section,
«
it
Lock,
Section,
it
Lock,
" 34,
« 2,
« 36,
" 37,
« 41,
« 10,
" 47,
« 53,
" 12,
ContractoTs' Names.
A. v., A. J. & J. Trout,
Jacob Seiler & Co.,
Dykins & Hendell,
John McCord,
H. S. Salsbury,
Mullison & Trout,
Same,
Same,
Leutz, Laman, & Co.,
Same,
Packer & Bonnet,
Same,
Same,
V. E. & J. E. Piollet,
Same,
Same,
Same,
John McGovern & Brother,
John Jones,
Same,
John Passmore,
John Jones,
Same,
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Statement— Continued.
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KIND OF WORK.
Section, No. 62,
Look, " 14,
Section, " 63,
" " 67,
" " 08,
Culvert on do.,
Section, No. 09,
71,
15,
Contractors' names.
Lock,
SectioD,
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7-i,
75,
76,
77,
78,
George Blattenberger, ]
Same, J
Coolbaugh, Brown, & Co.,
Patrick Burke,
Same, ]
Same, J
Sturdevant «fe.Ross,
John Passmore, 1
Same, j
A. Edwards, Jr.,
Jacob Seiler & Co.,
Edwards & Russell,
11. & J. A. Keeny,
E. Lacey & Co.,
Aqueduct on do..
Same,
Section, No.
79,
J. C., E. N. & H. Lacey
Culvert on do..
Same,
Section, No.
80,
Ross & Dull,
Lock, "
16,
Same,
Aqueduct, "
4,
Same,
Section, "
82,
Morley, Álowry, & Co.,
■Aqueduct, "
5,
Same,
Section, "
87,
G. W. Love,
IÍ it
88,
Kirk & Trace,
Lock, <<
17,
Same,
Section, "
98,
Overficld & Passmore,
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94,
P. & N. Overfield,
Same,
Culvert on do..
Value of work
done up to Oct.
20lli, 1851.
Value of work
remaining to be
donetocomplete.
Total estimated
cost.
Amount paid.
Amount re¬
tained.
Remarks.
3,848 73
5,689 32
9,538 05
3,604 00
244 73
1,764 09
5,449 30
■ 1,764 09
5,449 30
1,764 09
5,449 30
Completed
Do.
6,200 85
1,211 38
7,412 23
5,270 00
930 85
5,205 50
5,205 50
5,205 50
Do.
13,931 44
13,931 44
13,931 44
Do.
6,312 00
10,086 05
2,738 20
1,888 06
5,700 60
1,408 02
12,012 60
10,086 05
4,146 22
1,888 06
5,365 00
10,086 05
2,327 00
1,888 05
947 00
411 20
Do.
Do.
6,314 90
6,314 90
6,314 90
3,801 09
1,148 60
4,949 69
3,231 00
570 09
18,623 31
11,604 40
30,227 71
15,830 00
2,793 31
12,088 39
2,446 49
14,534 88
10,275 00
1,813 39
931 30
4,764 01
5,695 31
792 00
139 30
11,854 14
11,854 14
11,854 14
Do.
2,517 20
2,517 20
2,517 20
Do.
2,544 07
2,443 18
4,987 25
2,162 00
382 07
Section, No. 95,
Aqued't and culv't,
Section, No. 98,
" " 99'
Lock, " l-i.
Aqueduct, " (>,
Section, " 108,
Lock, " 21,
Dam, 3, and scbute.
Section, No. Ill,
" 112,
" 113,
" lU,
" 117,
" 118,
" 119,
" 120,
" 121,
Culvert on do..
Section, No. 122,
" " 123,
Culvert on do..
Section, No. 121,
Culvert on do..
Section, No. 125,-
Aqueduct on do..
Section, No. 134,
" " 136,
Culvert on do..
Section, No. 137,
Aqueduct, " 7,
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Wilson, Mowry, & Co.,
Same,
J. & J. Laman,
John Ross,
Same,
Same,
J. J. & D. M. Dull,
Same,
Same,
John Snodgrass,
Same,
Nead & Garrigan,
Francis Blair,
G. H. Bardwell & Co.,
Fisher & Bowman,
Nead & Garrigan,
Same,
Winchester & Jayne,
Same,
Same,
Maury, Drieshach, & Co.,
Same,
Same,
Same,
Patrick Burke,
Same,
Little & Stark,
G. H. Bardwell & Co.,
Same,
Francis Blair,
Same,
6,219 58
4,450 81
12,849 43
12,059 65
16,068 75
13,310 10
16,162 60
20,904 20
17,823 96
4,876 10
4,205 15
1,098 57
2,190 21
3,756 71
1,681 00
2,238 20
2,131 06
3,604 10
4,008 47
4,092 00
2,816 50
2,003
15
8,222
73
5,287
00
93 582
4,450
31
4,450
31
7,223
41
20,072
84
10,922
00
1,927
43
11,372
80
23,432
45
10,251
00
1,808
65
37,827
66
53,869
41
13,658
00
2,410
75
5,130
90
18,441
00
11,314
00
1,996
10
14,224
40
30,387
00
13,738
00
2,424
60
5,123
80
26,028
00
17,769
00
3,135
20
17,828
96
17,823
96
647
90
5,524
00
4,144
00
782
10
4,205
15
4,205
15
1,698
57
1,698
57
2,196
21
2,196
21
3,756
71
3,756
71
1,681
00
1,681
00
1,254
80
3,493
00
1,903
00
335
20
216
94
2,348
00
1,812
00
319
06
4,165
90
7,770
00
3,064
00
540
10
4,003
47
4,003
47
497
50
5,189
50
3,988
00
704
00
15,163
00
17,979
50
2,894
00
422
50
1
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
KIND OF WORK.
Section,
No. 138,
Lock,
(i
o o
Section,
ii
1Í2'
«
ii
143,
<(
i.i
144,
«
it
145,
Lock,
ÍÍ
23,
Cul. on sec. "
145,
Section,
Aqueduct
Section,
it
146,
on do..
No. 148,
Ii
((
151,
Culvert on do.,
Section,
No.
152,
U
i<
154,
Lock,
ÍÍ
24,
Section,
((
157,
((
{{
158,
if
ii
159,
u
ii
161,
Aqueduct,
Section,
it
ii
162,
n
ii
164,
li
ii
165,
n
ic
166,
Aqueduct
Section,
on do..
No. 167,
Lock,
«
25,
Statement— Continued.
Contractors' names.
John Flood,
Same,
Winchester & Jaync,
Jackson & Newman,
Same,
Francis Blair,
Same,
Same,
Kirk k I'racc,
Same,
Campbell & Lazarus,
0'liara & Vandercook,
Same,
Shei-wood & Sickler,
O'Grady & Donley,
Same,
M. Reap,
R. Martin,
J. Sturdevant,
Campbell, Simpson, & Co.
Same,
Same,
James Deegan,
R. Martin,
Kelly & Blessing,
Same,
John Passmore,
Samoj
Value of work
Value of work
done up to Oct.
remaining to be
20,1851.
done to complete
7,693 50
2,159 40
700 00
1,315 00
2,137 27
1,610 00
297 50
5,718 70
5,859 46
-
5,899 50
5,516 70
1,368 00
5,740 70
1,317 70
1,981 37
3,997 25
4,610 55
2,978 77
2,589 46
10,060 95
1,360 35
9,146 00
5,823 30
6,073 03
9,521 88
1,487 62
1,392 11
3,653 48
1,679 52
1,034 90
9,724 21
Total
estimated cost.
Amount paid.
Amount re¬
tained.
Remarks.
9,852 90
6,540 00
1,153 50
2,015 00
595 00
105 00
2,137 27
2,137 27
Completed.
1,889 50
1,369 00
241 00
11,578 16
4,861 00
8.57 70
5,899 50
6,884 70
4,689 00
827 70
• ■ 7,088 40
4,879 00
861 70
1,981 87
1,981 37
Do.
8,607 80
3,398 00
599 25
2,978 77
2,978 77
Do.
2,589 46
2,589 46
Do.
11,421 30
8,552 00
1,508 95
14,969 30
7,774 00
1,372 00
6,073 93
6,073 93
Do.
11,009 50
8,093 00
1,428 88
1,392 11
1,392 11
Do.
5,333 00
3,105 00
548 48
10,759 11
869 00
138 90
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Section,
173,
Oocbran, M'Lane, & Co.,
11,047
26
11,047
26
11,047
26
Do.
n
«
174,
John McMahon,
24,579
67
878
40
24,958
07
22,016
00
2,503 07
({
Calvert on
((
do.
176,
Fisher & Owen, >
Same, 5
5,788
29
5,788
29
5,788
29
Do.
Section,
No. 177,
John Forseiuan & Co., 4
Lock,
<(
26,
Same, C
Same, )
Ilenrie & Gulick, ?
Same, 5
9,669
22
7,536
10
17,205
32
9,898
00
276 22
Aqueduct,
Section,
Aqueduct,
(C
ii
178,
5,307
47
5,307
47
5,307
47
Do.
Section,
Lock,
{{
ii
179,
27,
Collings, Dennis, & Co., ?
Same, 3
4,560
31
8,779
07
8,339
38
3,876
00
684
31
Section,
ii
18-2,
Rody McGee,
1,344
80
8,995
00
10,339
80
1,143
00
201
80
ii
ii
183, ,
11. Korns & Co.,
5,687
58
5,687
58
4,835
00
852
58
t(
ii
184,
Wm. Phelan & Co.,
10,344
55
10,844
55
(<
ii
186,
Campbell & Lazarirs,
Benedict & Hughes,
1,240
00
1,240
00
i{
ii
187,
190,
3,146
29
3,146
29
8,146
29
Do.
a
ii
Same,
4,193
46
4,193
46
4,193
46
Do.
<(
ii
191,
28,
Same, 1
Lock,
ii
Same, 4
17,956
97
11,356
40
29,313
37
16,163
00
1,793
97
Aqueduct,
a
Same, j
Iload sect.
ii
1,
George Blattenhcrger,
.5,708
38
5,708
38
5,708
38
Do.
i(
ii
O
^7
D. M. Bull,
3,442
31
3,442
31
3,442
81
Do.
$606,548 11
$304,610 37
$911,188 48
$548,742 08
$57,806 08
14 KEPORT OF THE ENGINEER &c.
The following statement shows the estimated cost of work, not under contract, to com¬
plete the North Branch, Pennsylvania canal, to wit :
Ham No. 1, locks, sections and culverts ... - $209,978 26
Repairs and renewal of old portion of dam No. 2, and sehnte - 24,081 13
1,044 feet lineal, of aqueduct superstructure, @ $15 00 - 24,660 00
3 guard gates (new), " 2,500 00 - 7,500 00
Iron for 24 locks, " 500 00 - 12,000 00
(dement for 20,000 perches masonry, " 80 - 16,000 00
Building roads, where destroyed by canal - 1,500 00
Towing-path bridge on section No. 26 - 700 00
58 new bridges over the canal, " 600 00 - 34,800 00
29 old bridges to be repaired, " 200 00 - 58,000 00
16,000 rods of fencing, " 75 - 12,000 00
Repairs to four locks, " 600 00 2,400 00
3 east pipes, instead of culverts, " 500 00 - 1,500 00
Repairs of 48 sections, formerly completed, " 200 00 - 9,600 00
15 water-ways around locks, " 250 00 - 3,750 00
25 lock houses, " 600 00 - 15,000 00
40 waste weirs, " 300 00 - 12,000 00
30 tumbling dams, " 150 00 - 4,500 00
$397,769 39
RECAriTUi.'tTION.
Estimated cost of work under contract .... $911,188 48
Do. do. not under contract .... 397,769 39
1,308,957 87
Add for .superintendence, engineering, incidentals, and contingencies, 90,000 00
Total estimated cost ..... $1,398,957 87
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