Location of dredge in Pilot Canal on completion of dredging operations for cut No. 2. Just following departure, the second cut was made on left bank a distance of 1,800 ft. from upper end, which the view is towards.
The dredges (Ste. Gen.) and (William Black) as the dredge opposite each other with 100 feet between them remaining, which will complete the diversion channel project. 50 ft. of the earth will not be dredged, it will be blasted. This is at station 7+00.
Dredge (William H. Black) as it prepares opening in bank to start dredging at upper end of Pilot Canal. The (Ste. Gen.) is at station 11+40, Kansas City District, channel diversion.
The U. S. Robert McGregor is an all steel dust pan suction type dredge. She was built in 1914 for the U. S. Engineers and first operated on the Warrior River in Alabama. Later she was sent to the Mississippi but left that stream in 1928 for the Missouri River where she now operates in the Omaha District. She is 220 feet in length, 45 feet wide and of 1000 tons burden. Her propelling engine is of
Dredging of first cut completed and dredge is about halfway of canal length as it backs out. View is to lower end of canal. Kansas City District, channel diversion.