| United States. Congress. House - 1879 - 806 pages
...means not inordinately expensive (on which point we have treated more fully in our preliminary rei>ort on the subject of low-water navigation of the river),...developed in connection with the navigation improvement. Other and imperative duties of individual members have made impossible an earlier convention of the... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1904 - 524 pages
...one and the same for both, viz., the instability of the river from the caving of its banks We believe that the levee system, if undertaken, should be matured...developed in connection with the navigation improvement.'' Hence it appears that this Board attached but little importance to the use of levees as an aid to the... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1904 - 486 pages
...one and the same for both, viz., the instability of the river from the caving of its banks We believe that the levee system, if undertaken, should be matured and developed in connection with the navigation improvement.1' Hence it appears that this Board attached but little importance to the use of levees... | |
| Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt - 1903 - 506 pages
...one and the same for both, viz., the instability of the river from the caving of its banks We believe that the levee system, if undertaken, should be matured and developed in connection with the navigation improvement.1' Hence it appears that this Board attached but little importance to the use of levees... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - 1928 - 1030 pages
...one and the same same for both, viz, the instability of the river from the caving of its banks. * * * We believe, therefore, that the levee system, if undertaken,...developed in connection with the navigation improvement." Mr. GUYEH (reading) : The Mississippi River Commission was created by an act of Congress approved June... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - 1928 - 1072 pages
...one and the same same for both, viz, the instability of the river from the caving of its banks. * * * We believe, therefore, that the levee system, if undertaken, should be matured find developed in connection with the navigation improvement." Mr. GUYER (reading) : The Mississippi... | |
| United States. Mississippi River Commission, Dabney Otey Elliott - 1932 - 636 pages
...of levees were the instability of the river and the caving of its banks. The board further concluded that the levee system if undertaken should be matured and developed in connection with navigation improvement. As has been stated in Chapter I, this report is noteworthy for two reasons:... | |
| United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1879 - 1130 pages
...expensive (on which point we have treated more fully in our preliminary report 011 the subject of the low-water navigation of the river), we may expect...region. We believe, therefore, that the levee system, it undertaken, should be matured and developed in connection with the navigation improvement. Other... | |
| 460 pages
...one and the same for both, viz., the instability of the river from the caving of its banks We believe that the levee system, if undertaken, should be matured and developed in connection with the navigation improvement.1' Hence it appears that this Board attached but little importance to the use of levees... | |
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