River Protection Work - United States Engineer Dept. Weaving brush mattress ; showing barge load of willows, weaving way flats and steam tender Greenfield Bend near Bird's Point, Mo.
River Protection Work - United States Engineer Dept. Floating section of willow mattress awaiting rock for sinking. Greenfield Bend near Bird's Point, Mo.
Office Boat No. 10, U. S. Engineer Department - Bird's Point, Missouri. In river improvement work such as mattress construction, hirdle or dike building, granding and bank paving by the U. S. Engineer Department, the administrative forces were quartered on a single deck, cabined vessel called an office boat. This craft had a wooden hull about 135 feet long and 28 feet beam. Depth of hold about 4