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53D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 3d Session. }

(Ex. Doc. No. 320.

SURVEY OF MOUTH OF CRANES CREEK, VIRGINIA.

LETTER

FROM

THE SECRETARY OF WAR,

TRANSMITTING,

With letter of the Chief of Engineers, report of a survey of the mouth of Cranes Creek, Virginia.

FEBRUARY 18, 1895.-Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, February 15, 1895.

SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith a letter from the Chief of Engineers, dated February 14, 1895, together with a copy of a report from Maj. Chas. E. L. B. Davis, Corps of Engineers, dated February 11, 1895, of a survey made by him in compliance with the provisions of the river and harbor act of August 17, 1894, of mouth of Cranes Creek, Virginia, a tidal estuary of Great Wicomico River. Very respectfully,

DANIEL S. LAMONT.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Secretary of War.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS,

UNITED STATES ARMY,

Washington, D. C., February 14, 1895.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the accompanying copy of report of February 11, 1895, with map, by Maj. Chas. E. L. B. Davis, Corps of Engineers, of the results of a survey of mouth of Cranes Creek, Virginia, a tidal estuary of Great Wicomico River, made to comply with provi- sions of section 12 of the river and harbor act of August 17, 1894.

Major Davis submits plan for improvement by dredging a channel 9 feet deep and 150 feet wide through Bussels Point, substantially where there was 10 feet of water in 1869, which, together with needed rotecting jetties, is estimated to cost $56,040, the dredged material to be deposited so as to close the present mouth. He also submits an