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Improvement of New York Harbor: 1885 to 1891 (Classic Reprint) by Joseph Edwards (Paperback / softback, 2015)

Excerpt from Improvement of New York Harbor: 1885 to 1891 Sir - I have the hor to state, in answer to your inquiry, that the United States made, during the four years beginning April, 1887, and terminating February, 1891, six contracts with The Joseph Edwards Dredging Company, New York City, for the improvement, by hydraulic dredging, of the southern entrance to New York Harbor, extending from the sea face of the bar in Gedney Channel westward and rthward along the Main Ship Channel to and beyond the rthern entrance to the Swash Channel, Lower Bay. The contracts were successfully and satisfactorily executed by the use of Edwards Cataract Pumps, installed in steamers, and the total quantity of material excavated in this way by The Joseph Edwards Dredging Company was 4,300,000 cubic yards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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