Money  statement

ly  1, 1886,  amount  available : |42,52

leant  appropriated  by  act  approved  August  5, 1886 2, 500. 00

2, 542. 52
ly  1, 1887,  amount  expended  during  fiacal  year,  exclusive  of  liabilities
>utstaudingJulyl,  1886 2,503.10

lyl,  1887,  amount  available 39.42

Amount  that  can  be  profitably  expended  in  fiscal  year  endinff  June  30, 1889      2, 000. 00
Submitted  in  compliance  with  requirements  of  sections  2  of  river  and  har-
bor acts  of  1866  and  1867.
S  S  3.
QiPROVEMENT  OF  SACRAMENTO  AND  FEATHER  RIVERS,  CALIFORNIA.
The  project  has  for  its  object  the  temporary  improvement  of  the  low-
?ateT  channel  by  snagging,  dam  building,  and  bar  scraping,  carried
m  by  hired  labor  and  the  crew  of  the  United  States  snag  boat  Seizor.
Daring  the  past  year  the  Seizer  was  engaged  on  these  rivers  one  hun-
Ired  and  six  days,  of  which,  on  account  of  low  water,  only  one  day  could
be  spent  on  the  Feather  Biver  in  snagging.
2442     REt»0&T   Of  the   chief   of  fiKOlN^EftS,  tJ.  8.  AftllT.
On  the  Sacramento,  seven  days  were  spent  in  dam  bnilding;  nine
days  in  bar  scraping  at  Jacinto,  Salmon  Bend,  and  Six  Mile  Bar,  and
eighty-nine  days  in  snagging,  with  the  removal  of  1,029  snags  and  250
trees,  and  the  destraction  of  151  snags  previously  removed.  The  boit
in  this  work  ran  1,667  miles.
