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Show River Navigation. St. Paul. The rivermen's conven tion to-day was largely aueuueu. Alter three hours' work the commit tee on resolutions submitted a Beries, urging upon congress the necessity ol an appropriation sufficient to secure good navigation from the falls of 8t. Anthony to the gulf, indicating five feet from St. Louis to St. Paul, sight feet thence to Cairo and tea thence to New Orleans as the proper depth; urging that improvement lo be made moat prominent in all appropria lions for internal works. The executive committee appointed to memorialize congress for J building levees by the general government wae endorsed. Government was asked to publish the mups and surveys of Geo. Warren. |