Miscellaneous House Documents No. 107 – 200

Improving infrastructure across America in the early 20th century.

This assorted collection of maps, charts, diagrams, tables of statistics, and correspondence was published by the Government Printing Office in 1900. It contains a variety of miscellaneous reports provided by the members of the Treasury and War Departments for distribution to members of the House of Representatives, with a primary emphasis on the Chief of Engineers of the U.S. Army.

As a result, the contents are representative of the Army Corps of Engineers’ primary goals of military/civil construction efforts to facilitate navigation, disaster mitigation, and environmental infrastructure. Examples of reports outlined in the volume are as follows, most of which include at least one folding map or plan:

Examination of Saugerties Harbor, New York; Examination and Survey of Providence Harbor and River, Rhode Island; Examination and Survey of Tyaskin (Wetipquin) Creek, Maryland; Examination of Yaquina Bay, Oregon; Examination of Westchester Creek, New York; Examination and Survey of East Shore of Lake Pepin, Mississippi River; Examination and Survey of Pawtucket River, Rhode Island; Examination and Survey of Harbor at Portwing, Wis.; Estimates of Deficiency Appropriations, Department of Justice (Secretary of the Treasury); Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company; Examination and Survey of Tonawanda Harbor and Creek, New York; Examination for Canal Across Moccasin Bend, Tennessee River; Examination and Survey of New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts; Examination of Patchogue River, New York; Examination for Canal Across Moccasin Bend, Tennessee River; Examination and Survey of Carters Creek, Virginia; and Regulation of the Level of Lake Erie.