Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan: Hearings on the Subject of the Improvement of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and the Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan Into the Illinois River Held Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, Parte2

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924

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Louis Behan Esq 123	261

St Lawrence waterway report quotations from 652	264

Hull bill quotations from 264 365	265

Chamber of Commerce of Tonawanda N Y letter from___	277

Resolution of the Chicago Ill District Ice Association 1871	311

treaty 1284 1285 1288	331

Mr Harvey D Goulder general counsel Lake Carriers Association____	348

Mr W C Rippin quotation from statement by on Mississippi River	349

Report of Albert Gallatin Secretary of the Treasury 1818 quotations	1019

International aspect of questions involved	1052

Proceedings before special joint committee of Senate and House of Repre	1097

Chicago drainage and waterway laws	1103

Welland Canal diversion__	1124

HydroElectric Power Commission of Ontario excerpts from report of 1128	1128

Great Lakes report of Board of Engineers 1895 effect of the diversion	1130

Invitation to Committee on Rivers and Harbors to inspect sanitary	1151

Illustrations Great Lakes system 1448	362

Mr W J Stewart of Ottawa Canada_ 1472 16	376

Illinois State Medical Society letter from 1534	388

Wheeler 179 U S མཁའ གནས	402

Letters of Managers of Shippings Associations Marshall and Putnam	433

Telegram of the mayor of Muskegon Mich	444

Illinois tax commission quotations from report of 462	462

Advertisement of the Sanitary Commission of Chicago	475

Resolutions Issac Walton League of America__	509

Affidavit of Charles Vandertie Green Bay Wis	512

Resolutions of Kiwanis Club of Milwaukee Wis	520

Engineering facts concerning the Sanitary District of Chicago	525

Letter of F H Macy chief bureau of water power New York State	571

Sanitary District of Chicago newspaper articles	572

Report and resolutions of the Merchants Association of New York 1868	579

Mr Arthur V White hydroelectric power commission Province	650

Resolution of the New York Produce Exchange	681

Great Lakes Harbors Association protest objects and purposes of	686

Address by Mr William George Bruce on The Colossal Diversions	701

Report of the Department of Commerce showing financial statistics	724

Resolution of the City Council of Superior Wis 681	726

Memorandum for the Secretary of War concerning the diversion	728

Mr Isham Randolph effect of diversion on lake levels___ 369	741

Illinois 200 U S 505 776 1170	776

Excerpts from report submitted to the Department of State in 1909	779

Statement in regard to the Illinois River filed by Hon Guy L Shaw_	822

Draft of proposed bill submitted by Hon Guy L Shaw__	841

Statements showing loss to property owners on Illinois River due to	844

Statements of Mr Charles W Borgelt in regard to Mason County Ful	850

Table showing flow through Chicago Drainage Canal 1900 to 1923	864

Resolution of the Legislature of the Province of Ontario____	992

Report of Maj J H Willard June 20 1900 on the current in Chicago	1163

Resolution of Congress April 21 1904 permitting the lowering of	1170

Mr Philip P Wells deputy attorney general State of Pennsylvania 3	1174

Letter of Colonel Judson May 24 1920 regarding sewage purification__	1198

Ordinance of the sanitary district regarding compensation works	1199

Typhoid death rates of Gary East Chicago Whiting Hammond Chicago	1232

Application by sanitary district for permit in 1912 excerpts from	1248

OFFICIAL REPORTS	1253

Solicitor of the State Department memorandum regarding provisions	1282

Chandler Anderson memorandum by concerning treaty of 1910_	1294

Cause of obnoxious tastes in Milwaukee water 1229	1338

aw of the Dominion of Canada relating to the establishment and	1356

Mr Louis C Sabin excerpts from articles by on regulations works	1381

Shenehon report of on regulation of lake levels quotations from	1422

C telegram from regarding depths in Poe and Canadian locks	1464

Niagara Falls additional diversions at	1470

Dr W A Evans statement regarding health conditions_	1498

Table showing economic loss from typhoid fever Chicago 1912 to 1923	1508

Typhoid death rates in counties adjacent and tributary to the Illinois	1519

Table showing typhoid fever death rate in nine large cities	1539

Table showing flow as computed by the sanitary district and United	1552

From Engineering and Legal Aspects of Land Drainage in Illi	1572

Charts showing death rate from typhoid and from all causes	1634

Table showing population contiguous to Great Lakes and distribution	1661

Mr Edmund D Adcock statement by on behalf of the Sanitary District	1688

Exhibits accompanying testimony of Langdon Pearse hearing before	1773

Population estimates given in text	1779

Dilution factor for raw sewage data from 1889 to 1924_	1831

Summary of sanitary data of the Sanitary District of Chicago_	1846

Preface to treaty 426	1856

Telegram of the mayor of Charlevoix Mich	1858

Términos y frases comunes

ADCOCK amount of water authority barges BARRETT BEHAN bill BIXBY boats BOYCE Buffalo Canada Canadian cent CHAIRMAN channel Chicago Drainage Canal Chicago River Chief of Engineers city of Chicago coal commerce commission committee Congress Congressman construction CORNELIUS cost cubic feet dams depth District of Chicago diversion of water effect EKERN fact feet per second FERRIS flow freight going GOULDER Government HULL Illinois River inches interests Lake Erie Lake Huron lake levels Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Lake Superior LARSON Lawrence River levees level of Lake Lockport locks lowering McDUFFIE miles Milwaukee Mississippi River MORGAN navigation NEWTON Niagara Falls Niagara River permit plants ports power purposes pumping question RAINEY reason Rivers and Harbors SACKETT sanitary district Secretary Secretary of War ship statement thing tion tonnage tons traffic treaty understand United valley vessels water from Lake water power waterway Welland Canal

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Título	Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan: Hearings on the Subject of the Improvement of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and the Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan Into the Illinois River Held Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of ..., Parte2 Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan: Hearings on the Subject of the Improvement of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and the Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan Into the Illinois River Held Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Autor	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Editor	U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign
Digitalizado	15 Nov. 2016

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