Hearings..before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors... |
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... 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 the lower gauge we notice a little better channel . I contend that we would not have ...
... 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 the lower gauge we notice a little better channel . I contend that we would not have ...
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... barges . There are something like 200 boats of all kinds schooners , barges , etc. Four companies operate 26 steamboats , including California Transportation Co. and the Southern Pacific . The Sacramento Transportation Co. operates 24 ...
... barges . There are something like 200 boats of all kinds schooners , barges , etc. Four companies operate 26 steamboats , including California Transportation Co. and the Southern Pacific . The Sacramento Transportation Co. operates 24 ...
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... 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 850 tons . We built those barges ...
... 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 850 tons . We built those barges ...
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... 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.
... 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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... 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 could run except when obstructed by ice ...
... 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 could run except when obstructed by ice ...
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Admiral BENSON Ambrose Channel amount appropriation Arkansas River bank barges bill Board of Engineers boats BOOHER Buttermilk Channel canal carried cent CHAIRMAN channel Charleston Chief of Engineers coal commerce commissioner COMMITTEE ON RIVERS Congress construction contract contractor cost COSTELLO district dredging East River EDWARDS estimate fact feet FORBES Fort Smith FREAR freight garbage gentlemen Government Governors Island hearing HULBERT HUMPHREYS improvement JACOWAY KENNEDY Kill Van Kull land levee low water Macon miles Mississippi Missouri Missouri River MURRAY HULBERT navigation navy yard pier plant port proposition question railroad rates recommended Red River RHETT Richmond RIVERS AND HARBORS Sacramento Savannah scows ships Shreveport SMALL snags SPARKMAN statement Staten Island Staten Island Sound stream SUMNERS SWITZER terminals tion tonnage tons traffic transportation TREADWAY Trinity River ULLMAN vessels waterway wharves WHITSITT WILLIAM KETTNER York
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