Show A SINKING COUNTRY engineers are about to 1 the delta of I 1 sic le mise ill I 1 kiver ir i r col I 1 B J cart all rn engineer eng ineer of note who isnow is now making arv harveys ys for a five million dollar bridge across th the 11 mississippi lissis sippi river near new orleans says that the city is steadily sinking he states that there is a movement on foot among eminent engineers to have an investigation investigate n made into the delta country with wi ITO a view to ascertain how much sinking there has been during daring the last thirty years yeam it is a fact that the entire delta country is gradually sinking from a number of bench marks made by surveyors sr years ago on trees etc on the ysla 6 ulf coast and a comparison parison noi of the mean level of the gulf now with what it was twenty years ago in connection with the present bench marks the fact has developed that the delta coast has sunken at least aloot a foot within the last thirty or forty years there is no doubt that the city of new orleans is some six inches lower now than it was forty years ago the intention is to ascertain the exact sinking of the earth and to investigate tho the muses causes which have produced it |