Mechanized Systems for Harvesting Eastern Hardwoods

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...by a cut through the short neck of mangrove swamp lying between Great Pocket and Pecks Lake. (b) Jupiter Inlet-Lake Worth.--From Jupiter Inlet the line passes southerly through Jupiter Sound, where widening and deepening of an existing channel are required, into Lake Worth Creek, a small navigable stream which has been improved by the Florida East Coast Canal Co., and, by widening, deepening, and straightening, follows that stream to Lake Worth. This body of water, more properly a salt-water lagoon, varies in width from about 1,000 feet to 1 mile, has a length of 21 miles in a north and south direction, and a depth in excess of 6 feet for 60 per cent of its length, and for the remainder a depth of from 3 to 6 feet. The only work here required is that of widening and deepening. (c) Lake Worth--Hawk Channel.--Leaving the south end of Lake Worth the alignment follows that of the Florida East Coast Canal for a distance of 15.1 miles to the Hillsboro River. The work required will consist of widening and deepening this canal, the water-surface width of which is but 60 feet and the midchannel depth 5 feet to standard section, which will necessitate the rehandling of at least one-half of the material excavated by the canal company. Except for a total distance of about 3 miles, where rock will be met with at depths ranging from--7 to--8, the material to be excavated will be mud and sand. _ The Hillsboro River, a small but navigable tidal stream, discharging at Hillsboro Inlet, about 3.2 miles south of its source, has been improved by the Florida East Coast Canal Co. by widening and deepening, and the line follows generally the alignment of that company's work, departing from it where necessary to avoid sharp bends. The material to be encountered...