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Three years ago during low water from July to September my company maintained a steam barge to lighter our boats in and out ; but each year during the last three years the channel has been scouring a little better each year , and with ...
Three years ago during low water from July to September my company maintained a steam barge to lighter our boats in and out ; but each year during the last three years the channel has been scouring a little better each year , and with ...
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Then , there is also quite a tonnage on the lower river carried by schooners and gasoline boats towing barges . There are something like 200 boats of all kinds schooners , barges , etc. Four companies operate 26 steamboats , including ...
Then , there is also quite a tonnage on the lower river carried by schooners and gasoline boats towing barges . There are something like 200 boats of all kinds schooners , barges , etc. Four companies operate 26 steamboats , including ...
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We carry grain on light - draft barges . We go up to the upper reaches of the river with those barges and load 100 or 150 tons and keep on loading that barge as we come down the river , loading it to its full capacity , which is 800 to ...
We carry grain on light - draft barges . We go up to the upper reaches of the river with those barges and load 100 or 150 tons and keep on loading that barge as we come down the river , loading it to its full capacity , which is 800 to ...
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... our barges could be loaded at Kansas City and carried down to the Gulf , tied - on , as that is the new method of using the river , with light barges that can be loaded at points and hauled in a string of barges MISSOURI RIVER . 9.
... our barges could be loaded at Kansas City and carried down to the Gulf , tied - on , as that is the new method of using the river , with light barges that can be loaded at points and hauled in a string of barges MISSOURI RIVER . 9.
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loaded at points and hauled in a string of barges , that traffic would be highly profitable . If we could have some improvement on that river and upon the Mississippi River so that there would always be a highway upon which these boats ...
loaded at points and hauled in a string of barges , that traffic would be highly profitable . If we could have some improvement on that river and upon the Mississippi River so that there would always be a highway upon which these boats ...
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| Título | Hearings..before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors... |
| Autor | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors |
| Publicado | 1915 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca del Congreso |
| Digitalizado | 12 Mar 2007 |
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