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The Charles River Basin Commission last autumn submitted to the War Department its general construction plans for the Charles river dam. The contract has been awarded and work was begun last week. The dam will be erected a short distance below the Craigie or East Cambridge bridge, and the latter...
Mr. Foster is one of the most distinguished authorities on questions of diplomacy now living. He was Secretary of State under President Harrison, minister to Mexico from 1873 to 1880, to Russia from 1880 to 1881 and to Spain from 1883 to 1885. In 1891, as special plenipotentiary of the...
The Charles River Basin Commission has advertised for bids on its contract for the dam which is to turn the Charles river into a freshwater basin unaffected by the tides. The dam will be built on the present site of Craigie bridge, and its total length will be 1300 feet...
The engineers of the Commission have made the following calculations: earth excavation, 340,000 cubic yards; filling, 400,000 cubic yards; concrete masonry, 41,000 cubic yards; piling, 490,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 1,100,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riprap, 10,000 tons. There will be...
The dam will maintain a basin 8 miles long and will affect the level of the water as far as the dam at Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by...