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Download or read book Fifth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Co (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Co In submitting their Fifth Annual Report, the President and Directors respectfully refer to the accompanying Report of the Chief Engineer for the present condition of the work and its progress during the year. To that Report the Board deem it necessary to add but little. It will be seen that the Canal has been excavated to the full width for its entire length, and that the work remaining to be done consists in removing a portion of the core which has been deposited upon the slopes, and in deepening the Canal and certain parts of the rivers, and of Currituck Sound, to the required depth of eight feet. This, it is expected, can be accomplished within one year from next Spring, provided the necessary funds can be obtained. During the year, the houses for the bridge-keepers have been completed and occupied. Two additional steam-tugs have been purchased; so that the Company have now three tow-boats and one dispatch boat. Considerable repairs have been put upon one of the tow-boats, the Wasp; and another one, the Roanoke, has been almost entirely rebuilt: the other one, the Junaluska, was new when purchased; so that the whole motive power of the Company is now in good order for business. There is now a daily line of tow-boats from each end of the route. Of the $200,000 of bonds offered for sale, (secured by the $400,000 Mortgage, ) as stated in the last Report, $136,000, have been disposed of; $40,000, of which have been applied upon the new contract for deepening. 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 technology 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.