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PH 1005
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U.S. Hydraulic Dredge Peele at U.S. boatyard, South Stillwater, Minnesota (now called Bayport, Minnesota)
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U.S. Hydraulic Dredge Vesuvius on way for repairs to hull at U.S. boatyard, Fountain City, Wisconsin
: Yard foreman N.F. Titus on way timber between dredge and water edge; this dredge has 15-inch pump, removes from channel 350 to 400 cubic yards of sand per hour, about 125,000 yards per month, and is the plant of which Charles Weyl was in charge. Fountain City quarry is at top of hill and tramway in background.
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Bunsen boilers and engine room on the Vesuvius
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Wing dams to narrow up width of river at Keithsburg, Illinois
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Shore protection method of covering river bank with bundles of brush then rock
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Building wing dam with brush and rock
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Dredge Hecla building coffer dam of sand dredged from channel at lower end of Le Claire Canal, Iowa
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Dredge Hecla's self-stoking boilers
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Coffer dam around lower end of lock site in Le Claire, Iowa
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Inside coffer dam at lock site with water pumped out and showing bottom of river, mostly ledge rock
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Filled lock at lower end of pool, Moline, Illinois
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Lock empty for boat to pass out or in, Moline, Illinois
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Blasting rock from river for improvement of navigation of channel opposite upper end of Davenport, Iowa
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River shore at mouth of Hennepin Canal, below Rock Island, Illinois, showing sand washed over bank and between trees
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U.S. boatyard, dry-dock, and lock, Keokuk, Iowa
: Note: Steamer Albatross is in dry-dock; this boat of 300 feet is being lengthened to 357 feet for use at Memphis, Tennessee for transferring railway cars across the Mississippi River.
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Vesuvius pontons being placed below wing dams on the Wisconsin shore below Fountain City by two launches
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U.S. quarter-boats, living quarters for men building dams
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U.S. boatyard on the Hennepin Canal, near Rock Island
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U.S. Dredge Geyser working in Dubuque Harbor, Iowa
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