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Navigable pa.s.s; same items as above 150,000

Weirs, piers, abutments; same items as above 170,000

Miscellaneous, including local surveys, purchase of sites, embanking, retaining, riprapping, and paving of banks, lock employees' houses, storehouses, other buildings, dredging of approaches to locks and pa.s.ses, dredging of shoals and removal of obstructions in pools, engineering work of location, construction, and inspection, office work of engineering and disburs.e.m.e.nts, and other contingencies 200,000 -------- Total $870,000

But the extra width and height of lock esplanade filling, extra length of weirs, and extra channel dredging, incident to the individual locations of the dams, increase the above estimates to final totals of from nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars to one million, one hundred thousand dollars at the individual dams.

The expenditures of the Government on the Ohio River from 1827 to 1902 are as follows:

_Act of Congress._ _Appropriation._ _Remarks._ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- March 3, 1827, $30,000.00 March 3, 1835, 50,000.00 July 2, 1836, 20,000.00 March 3, 1837, 60,000.00 July 7, 1838, 50,000.00 June 11, 1844, 100,000.00 March 3, 1847, 6,479.25 August 30, 1852, 90,000.00 June 23, 1866, 172,000.00 Allotment of money already appropriated, for improving Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Ohio Rivers.

June 23, 1866, 80,000.00 Allotment for snag boats and apparatus for improving western rivers.

March 2, 1867, 100,000.00 July 25, 1868, 85,000.00 Allotment for repair, preservation, extension, and completion of river and harbor works.

July 11, 1870, 50,000.00 March 3, 1871, 50,000.00 June 10, 1872, 200,000.00 March 3, 1873, 200,000.00 June 23, 1874, 150,000.00 March 3, 1875, 300,000.00 August 14, 1876, 175,000.00 June 18, 1878, 300,000.00 June 18, 1878, 50,000.00 Harbor of refuge at or near Cincinnati.

March 3, 1879, 250,000.00 June 14, 1880, 250,000.00 March 3, 1881, 350,000.00 March 21, 1882, 100,000.00 Continuing work on Davis Island dam.

August 2, 1882, 350,000.00 August 2, 1882, 16,000.00 Harbor of refuge near Cincinnati, Ohio.

July 5, 1884, 600,000.00 July 5, 1884, 17,000.00 Same.

August 5, 1886, 375,000.00 August 11, 1888, 380,000.00 September 19, 1890, 300,000.00 January 19, 1891, 2,128.87 Relief of Stubbs & Lackey.

Treasury settlement No. 2593.

July 13, 1892, 360,000.00 August 18, 1894, 250,000.00 June 3, 1896, 250,000.00 July 1, 1898, 15,000.00 Allotment for restoring levee and banks of Ohio River at or near Shawneetown, Ill.

March 3, 1899, 375,000.00 June 13, 1902, 359,000.00 Amount appropriated, $400,000; $41,000 being for Falls of Ohio River, at Louisville, Ky.

------------- Total, $6,565,608.12

Total of appropriations, 1827-1902, $6,565,608.12 Total of allotments, 1827-1898, 352,000.00 Received from sales, 1866-1893, 7,790.50 ----------- $6,925,398.62 Appropriations not drawn, 1827, 1852, 5,023.47 Allotments not drawn, 1866, 1868, 43,134.60 Returned by Treasury settlements, 30.07 Amounts transferred to other works, 125,168.44 -------------- 173,356.58 ------------- Total, $6,752,042.04[84]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Transactions American Philosophical Society_ (new series), vol. iv, pp. 369-370.

[2] Bonnecamps's journal was accompanied by a MS. map drawn by himself upon which were marked all the places mentioned in his journal of this expedition (1749). This map was preserved in the archives of the Department of the Marine with his journal but disappeared between 1892 and 1894 and its location today is unknown.

[3] Warren, Pennsylvania; O. H. Marshall's "Celoron's Expedition,"

_Magazine of American History_, vol. 2, no. 3, (March 1878).

[4] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Doc.u.ments_, vol. lxix, p. 165.

[5] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. iii, pp. 71-72.

[6] Brokenstraw Creek.

[7] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 17.

[8] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, pp. 18-19.

[9] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Doc.u.ments_, vol. lxix, p. 165.

[10] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 21.

[11] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Doc.u.ments_, vol. lxix, p. 167.

[12] For a sketch of Indian occupation of the Allegheny Valley see _Historic Highways of America_, vol. iii, pp. 59-62.

[13] Franklin, Pennsylvania.

[14] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 24.

[15] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Doc.u.ments_, vol. lxix, p. 169.

[16] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 25.

[17] _Id._, p. 25. Parkman places Attique on the site of Kittanning, Pennsylvania (See Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_, vol. i, p. 45). This view is supported by Lambing (_Catholic Historical Researches_, January 1886, pp. 105-107, note 6).

[18] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 26.

[19] This letter, dated August 6, with two others, all bearing the signature of Celoron, has been preserved in the archives of the State of Pennsylvania. For copy of translation see Rupp's _Early History of Western Pennsylvania_, p. 36.

[20] Queen Alliquippa.

[21] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 27.

[22] Toner's _Journal of Colonel George Was.h.i.+ngton, 1754_, pp. 157-158.

In this article it was demanded that the English should not return across the Alleghenies _for one year_.

[23] Shenango, in English accounts.

[24] O. H. Marshall's 14 Celoron's Expedition,' _Magazine of American History_, vol. 2, no. 3, (March 1878).

[25] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 39.

[26] The location of the burial places of Celoron's leaden plates as given in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, which would naturally be considered authoritative, are inexplicably contradictory.

[27] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 40.

[28] _Id._, p. 40.

[29] _Id._, pp. 40, 41.

[30] St. Yotoc was probably a corruption of Scioto. Father Bonnecamps calls it Sinhioto. It was near the present site of Alexandria, Ohio, at the mouth of the Scioto River.

[31] Riviere Blanche was a name given by the French to several streams which contained unusually clear waters. From distances mentioned this was probably the Little Miami. Dunn (_History of Indiana_, p. 65, note 1) thinks it was the present White Oak Creek.

[32] Riviere a la Roche (Rocky River) was the present Great Miami. It was called the "Rocky River" because of its numerous rapids.

[33] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Doc.u.ments_, vol. lxix, p. 183.