The port book of Boston; . to dry-dockon the European side. Theallied lines are to pay the State$50,000 a year towards the costof maintenance. 31 THE PORT BOOK A lYcii $1,000,000 Pier is planned for the locationadjoining the Boston & Albany Terminal docks atEast Boston, shown on the map on page 18 in black, This dock will have spe-grain from the Boston & with the index number facilities for loadingAlbany elevator. Reclaiming the Shallo^vs. Another work of the PortDirectors now in view is the reclamation of theState flats. One hundred and seventy acres of these,just below the Boston & Al
The port book of Boston; . to dry-dockon the European side. Theallied lines are to pay the State$50,000 a year towards the costof maintenance. 31 THE PORT BOOK A lYcii $1,000,000 Pier is planned for the locationadjoining the Boston & Albany Terminal docks atEast Boston, shown on the map on page 18 in black, This dock will have spe-grain from the Boston & with the index number facilities for loadingAlbany elevator. Reclaiming the Shallo^vs. Another work of the PortDirectors now in view is the reclamation of theState flats. One hundred and seventy acres of these,just below the Boston & Albany Terminal, as shownon page 18, will be made available by using thedredgings from the new ship channel. This will pro-vide deep water alongside and filled land in one opera-tion. This reclamation will add two miles to theavailable wharf space of the port, with deep water forships of heavy draft. Other reclamation work will accompany the build-ing of the new dry dock. A ciuay wall aroimd the On Moonlight Bay. OF BOSTON site of the dry dock will be built, with a deep channel,thus adding another two miles of wharf space. The Channels. The main ship channel is now1,200 feet wide and 35 feet deep at mean low channel, shown on the charts, pages 18 and19, will run north of Governors Island and, like themain channel, lead into President Roads, an im-mense anchorage basin for deep ships. The Tiarbor entrances are shown on page 19, beingthree in number. Broad Sound channel, now usedby the transatlantic boats, gives 30 feet at mean lowwater. A more direct approach is being dredged to35 feet, north of Broad Sound. This channel, whencompleted, will be 2,000 feet wide. The third, orOld channel, giving 27 feet, M. L. W., runningout past Nantasket, is deep enough for all ordinaryshipping, but will be deepened to 40 feet. The gentlemen who are now serving the Common-wealth as Directors of the Port of Boston, and underwhose supervision these large projects are being car-ried for
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