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State Engineer. Special report on bars at the mouth of the Mississippi River, 1859
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Special report of the State Engineer on the bars at the mouths of the Mississippi River to the General Assembly. Baton Rouge : J.M. Taylor, 1859. On March 1, 1859, Louis Hebert sent his report. He and his assistant chartered a small boat to investigate the bars. Of the two passes used by large draft boats, Pass a la Loutre was much the best: 15.5 feet of water and straight sides. The Southwest Pass had 15.5 feet of water, but the channel was so crooked that there were boats aground there. He counted the ships in line to go out and to come in and provided a list and how many days they had been waiting. He thought the work the government had done to try to define the channels was useless--they used the wrong materials. To keep the channels open, it was necessary to do continuous dredging in a way called harrowing, which he explained. It was not cheap, but it worked--the current situation greatly impeded commerce. [There is considerable spotting on some pages that make them difficult to
read.]
Special report of the State engineer on the bars at the mouth of the Mississippi River to the General Assembly. Baton Rouge : J.M. Taylor, 1859. On March 9, 1859, Louis Hebert submitted his report. He and his assistant chartered a small power boat and spent several weeks measuring the water and talking to boat captains. There were two passes used by large draft boats; the Pass a la Loutre was the better one because it had 15.5 feet of water and was straight. The Southwest Pass was very cr
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Title:
Special report of the state engineer on the bars at the mouths of the Mississippi River, to the General Assembly.
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OCLC Number:
1351841563
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Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
Vol. 1 | | Yes | No |
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