Portage River on Keweenaw Waterway, showing proposed cut-off channels at Princess Point / U.S. Engineer Office, Duluth, Minn., Sept. 10, 1913.

Map showing the a portion of the Keweenaw Waterway southeast of Portage Lake, showing two options for proposed cuts through a piece of land named Princess Point, for the purpose of straightening the waterway. Shows existing cuts from earlier straightening projects. Shows test holes and possible beac...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 63rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 835.
Corporate Authors: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers (Issuing body)
United States. Congress House (Issuing body)
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Issuing body)
Norris Peters Co (Printer)
Other Authors: Peek, Ernest D. (Ernest Dichmann), 1878-
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : [Committee on Rivers and Harbors], [1914]
Series:House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 63rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 835.
Subjects:
Keweenaw Waterway (Mich.) > Maps.
Portage River (Houghton County, Mich.) > Maps.
Channels (Hydraulic engineering) > Michigan > Keweenaw Waterway > Planning > Maps.
River engineering > Michigan > Keweenaw Waterway > Maps.
Canals > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula > Maps.
Canals > Michigan > Houghton County > Maps.
Bathymetric maps.
Nautical charts.
Maps.
Genre:
Maps.
Bathymetric maps.
Nautical charts.
Physical Description:1 map ; 22 x 56 cm.
Cartographic Data:Scale approximately 1:7,234
(W 88°29ʹ41ʺ--W 88°26ʹ37ʺ/N 47°02ʹ08ʺ--N 47°00ʹ07ʺ).
Format: Map
Description
Summary:
Map showing the a portion of the Keweenaw Waterway southeast of Portage Lake, showing two options for proposed cuts through a piece of land named Princess Point, for the purpose of straightening the waterway. Shows existing cuts from earlier straightening projects. Shows test holes and possible beacon locations. Shows building footprints. Shows property boundaries in vicinity of Princess Point. Shows locations of buoys, lights, and marshes.
Note:Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Relief shown by contours.
Map oriented with north to upper left.
Map extracted from "Keweenaw Waterway, at Princess Point, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Keweenaw Waterway, Portage Lake Ship Canal, Mich., with a view to making a cut-off at Princess Point," published as a United States House of Representatives document (H.doc.835), "March 6, 1914—referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed."
Includes location map showing entire waterway.
"To accompany my report ..., E. D. Peek."
Call Number:G4112.K4P53 1913 U5 Map