Show tue THIS hiis RIVER improvements PROVE MENTS will m this be a heavy appropriation made for the improvement ol of the ilia mississippi and there should bo the is ii tho the natural outlet for square malta of the tani territory tory of the united blanca and it the volume or of commerce which ia to pus pass out oui to uio the sea sa by that river la 12 will lug annually the is warmly la in favor or of making looking the necessary improvements lad imd indeed oo lie opposition exists any where except 00 oo ilia part of certain Nords northern cria railroad companies tho the only theall that flint Is II in ia doubt it is low how to commence wo we believe the commie 0 ion iloa ku has dearl decided ded that io in places place when the river bu ban pread spread out over it a great space and IS i shallow the thing to do i is to contract ilia channel into a all not to 10 exceed feet feel by the use or of simple willow malt restal that the river can CAD flow through md it ever aver depe alling its ill sediment me lu it flows until a bank ll is formed with the water 10 0 o the ILlo velocity City of the tha current will hill of course count be lac masid anti thou than it will plow its own way depa maug thu the chaji ail SO kh it PrO progresso gressa until the tha depth Is captain kass ends bel bellowes loves that it J is if paris to make the river ufa safe against floods and perfect rot for free navigation trout frodi SL louis to new Or orlaine lains and at oot dot loo great expense the BOW carries carreca down sufficient sediment to ti make annually A bank ol of mud one ODO mile square and dil feet high it I 1 ia ItIl lill enough from this that the only way to restrain or direct the river is fi to make the ibo river ho ilio work Ilis Itis quilo quito A plain river Is power bich mortals may pe dips presume to ill di reel but lant never to 0 o control with the confining of flat river mor within legal mate banks banki it if estimated that the reclaimed lani lands would be worth orth md and that hint the products of those lands would amount annually to dut but tho the cost of this to re ch conation natiOn is to be to co kroat grant that engineers rather shrink fro from CA giving their figures dut but the mississippi e has baa been declared A Nati national ozal big holay sad that ibm 1 it I must bo be made a stream filled complete ly for commo commerce mill and that its it banks bonab must be protected lu its tremendous lire are filets fact which nice mio may bicad postponement upon lul but will not nol deny it would seem to be the cco thing to take lake a section or the river like that say ay between now orleans nod natchez and make tho the them first if they proved to bo be a success tho the further money needed would be granted with out alt altvate bate because it Is not nol tho the amoust now that the nation nallon shrinks from but tho the doubt of tho the of the work causes a rating against pending foolishly millions aloro late 1 in tima put in have bren been A wasted led but with tho the river anti the burden of commerce that its ill mighty brat will bear will it fifty years illace be the ibo grandest ight eight on all this earth |