Box 1, Folder 6: Diaries 1828-1830

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...to the effect before obtained making 3.24 for the correct offset per chain. Or the first stake may be moved .125 and the second twice as much plus the first = 0.45 The third 3 times as much plus the last 90 fourth - 1.5 5th - 2.25 6th - 3.15 7th - 4.20 8th - 5.60 9th - 6.75 10th - 8.25 The first added to the last = the amount of the variation. The above method is practiced on the Ohio Canal from Circleville to Deer Creek.

Section of the Canal at the Bluffs

[hand drawn illustration]

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Form of the notebook on the Bluffs

[numeric table]

By the figure on the opposite page it will be perceived that the lvels noted in the 2d column of the above table were taken at the centre; those in the 4th at or where the bottom of the canal strikes the hill. The 5th were taken at the edge of the water. The 7th between that and the out toe or at d. The 8 were taken at e the out tale of the bank.

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The distances in the fourth column are from a to b horizontal measurement and those in the 6th column are from a to c or from the center of the canal to the edge of the water. The guard bank is here represented as 14 ft.. high above bottom and the river rises 21 feet. The ears in some cases is excavated in the form of steps on the slope as is represented by the dotted lines. The whole is called embankment and is made far from 14 to 15 cents per yard. The muck ditch is triangular excavation are presented by the dotted lines, between the river and bottom of canal. It is generally about 10 feet high and the base about 5 or 6 ft. wide. It is lower on the side next the hill.

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Aquiduct over the Scioto at Circleville Ont. under E. about. There are 207 piles cut off 30.50 Below bottom.

Under 1st pier-69 do. 32.00 " 1 2d do 59 " 32.90 " " do do 69 31.83 " "44 do 77 30.83 " " West Abutment 186 30.45 "

Piers at upbringing of arches 8 feet made by 32 feet long (straight) ends. Semicircular 4 feet radius-latter of walls 3/4th of an inch per foot. Springing of arches 1 foot above high water 6 feet below bottom.- Low water 27 feet B. Under the two abutments and the 4th pier counting always from the east end, there are but 2 courts of foundation timber, but under the 1st 2d & 3d piers there are four courses-Bottom course always layed length wise of aquiduct

[left page] Span of arches 80ft. At the springing of the arches, is a fillet 16 inches thick projecting 3 inches - Above this, the piers are but 7 1/2 feet wide and are laid without batter. On the out side of the East abutment are two buttresses brought up to springing of arches 18 feet thick. The outside of the West abutment is brought up without buttresses and formers the best wall of a lock of 9 1/2 feet lift Built in the years 1828 '29 & '30 by Messrs. Loghery & Dean at an expense of $ . Stone for backing hauled about 4 miles, for face of walls 8 miles.

The Yellow bud aqueduct cost about $4.000 --

[right page] The canal from the Ogechee to the Savannah river Geo. will be completed in 1830. The sum expended up to 1830 $144,000Whole cost estimate at $ 164,000

[pencil sketch of Wooden Lock and calculations]

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[Pencil sketch]

At Louisville they make [bubbles?] craim without the small post, a brace extended from the top of the main part to the sill, and the beam which supports the drum is fastened at one end to the under side of this brace by means of [anlron?] strap. This however is only in small chains, large ones it would not answer.

Rail roads

4/5 of an inch rise to a yard in length Drain 2 feet; space 4-rail bin road 4 f. rail 6 in space 2 f rail 6 in Road 4 f rail 6 in [opouse?] 4 ft Drain 25

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[Louisville Canal Price calculations-1826-1829].

Locomotive engines may be employed where the [illegible] is not more than 3/16 of an inch per yard or 27 1/2 feet per mile.

About 210 tons of cart iron per mile for our double track, one foot in 200 but 125 or 150 can be made to answer.

[left hand calculation]

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Farmington Canal

First boat paned from Man to New Haven in 24 hours on the 7th Oct. 1829.

West Branch Rail Road

Commences at Schug (Kill Haven)( a small town) of extends into the confluence of the E. & W Branch of the Schuflkill-from thence branches will follow the direction of the two streams to the foot of Broad Mountain-Total Dist. 17 m

Commenced in 1829 & expected to be furnished in 1830

The rail roads in the region are as follows:

Schuylkill valley railroad-10 miles Mount Carbon- do 8 miles Mill Creek- do 4 miles West Branch- do 17 Little Schuykill do 22 Total- 61

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About 3000 flat boats annually descend the falls of the Ohio of which 1000 are under the necessity of having their loads hauled around the obstructions [ the obstruction. Calculation; text of section overwritten by bolder ink].

It is supposed that about 282,000 tons of property passed Louisville in 1829 & only 70,000 descended in 1824 or traded in 5 years.

17,500 Passengers? parted Louisville in the year 1829.

Steamboat tonage is supposed to have doubled in 5 years-

The toll in the year 1829 is the canal had been finished is estimated by Mr. Henry at $68,000. In 1826 by Mr. Kelley at $34,000

50,000 of water line at 37 1/2---

Mr. Carrol will agree to deliver the above amount of time at Portsmouth for the above price.