Scope and Content Note
This series consists of a single bound notebook kept by William B. Cooper, Resident Engineer, Canal Office, Utica. The notebook includes estimated costs for enlargements of the Erie Canal in 1841; costs of cutting stone for the North Lock of Lock No. 24; costs for Whipples iron bridges and farm bridges; a small water color of washers for Whipples bridges; pencil sketches of tunnel cross sections and railroad tunnels; notes on tunneling; various estimated costs for Moses Kill Lock, Champlain Canal; and a pencil sketch of pile driving at the Fort Edward Aqueduct.
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