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...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 two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies the smaller lock will be used as a flood-sluice for letting water out of the basin. There will be also...
...King Phillip will toot her chime whistle at five o'clock and Creatore will again assume control as the palatial vessel plies homeward...
...miles from St. Louis. The grave is constructed of six slabs of limestone, and is hardly three feet long, and about two feet deep. In the grave are two male skeletons. The skulls were placed on top of the other bones, and between them was a pottery fool vessel. The whole has been reconstructed by Mr. D. I. Bushnell, Jr., who, with Mr. W. C. Farabee, found the grave during a joint expedition from the Peabody Museum and the University of California...
...Geographical Society of Baltimore is organizing a summer expedition to the Bahamas under the leadership of Professor G. B. Shattuck, of Johns Hopkins University. The party will sail from Baltimore in a specially chartered vessel early in June. Each of the twenty members will contribute $150, which will cover all expenses. Professor Shattuck wishes two more assistants on his geological staff, and men in the University who may wish to go on this expedition should communicate with...
...region of the City of Mexico and the State of Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico, and is valuable for its great age and the rarity of the specimens which it includes. These represent gods, masks, and a number of single specimens, as a ceremonial axe, coiled serpent and carved vessel. These are carved from stone and from lava, and in some cases show evidences of an original covering of stucco...