| Floyd Calvin Shoemaker - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 292 pages
...jetties. It made Eads even more famous than he had been before. Eads now wanted to deepen the channel of the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf. The United States Government at first favored this but the work was' finally abandoned. This was a... | |
| United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - Engineering - 1918 - 1400 pages
...these boats will be found in the reports of operations for this year by this office for the improvement of the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to the mouth of the Missouri, and by the Mississippi Hiver Commission and the district offices thereunder,... | |
| United States. War Department - 1919 - 1364 pages
...boats will he found in the reports of operations for this .vear by this office for the improvement of the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to the mouth of the Missouri, and by the Mississippi River Commission and the district offices thereunder,... | |
| United States. Weather Bureau - Meteorology - 1897 - 652 pages
...water-bearing gravel and sand. In many instances there are alternate strata of clay and gravel. The bed of the river from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico is in this blue clay. The immediate banks of the river .are higher than the land farther back, which... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...their friends than to their enemies. The story of that great work of the national armies, the reopening of the Mississippi river from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf, deserves and will receive hereafter the highest honors of the historian. The toils, the embarrassments,... | |
| United States - 608 pages
...collection district may be established by law, to include the shores, waters, and subsidiary streams of the Mississippi river, from the mouth of the Ohio to the northern boundary lines of the states of Missouri and Illinois, and thai the city of St. Louis be declared... | |
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