Flood Control on the Saint Francis River, Missouri and Arkansas: Hearings... on H.R. 7875..., February 3 and 4, 1930...1930 - 172 pages |
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... feet of water ; but the Army Engineers say that by reason of the failure to clear and properly place such floodway to perform usefully and to the limit of its function it has never disposed more than 22,000 cubic feet , and therefore ...
... feet of water ; but the Army Engineers say that by reason of the failure to clear and properly place such floodway to perform usefully and to the limit of its function it has never disposed more than 22,000 cubic feet , and therefore ...
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... its tributaries . For agricultural purposes and producing purposes , you might just as well have 10 feet from the Mississippi and St. Francis both , as 5 feet from the St. Francis alone . The FLOOD CONTROL ON ST . FRANCIS RIVER 25.
... its tributaries . For agricultural purposes and producing purposes , you might just as well have 10 feet from the Mississippi and St. Francis both , as 5 feet from the St. Francis alone . The FLOOD CONTROL ON ST . FRANCIS RIVER 25.
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... feet from the St. Francis alone . The land is out of commission just as effectually in either instance . Mr. DUNBAR . I am inclined to be in sympathy with you . This last article 16 , makes this comment , that no additional flood ...
... feet from the St. Francis alone . The land is out of commission just as effectually in either instance . Mr. DUNBAR . I am inclined to be in sympathy with you . This last article 16 , makes this comment , that no additional flood ...
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... feet apart , to form a floodway for Little River , which floodway extends south into Poinsett County and to the St ... feet , crown of 8 feet , side slopes of 3.1 , and a base of 80 feet . Levees were constructed with floating dredges ...
... feet apart , to form a floodway for Little River , which floodway extends south into Poinsett County and to the St ... feet , crown of 8 feet , side slopes of 3.1 , and a base of 80 feet . Levees were constructed with floating dredges ...
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... feet on the Mark Tree gage , occupying 9 feet in the bottom of the river channel . That has a damming effect , a retarding effect , on the discharge of the head- water in the St. Francis River from above . While the report of the Army ...
... feet on the Mark Tree gage , occupying 9 feet in the bottom of the river channel . That has a damming effect , a retarding effect , on the discharge of the head- water in the St. Francis River from above . While the report of the Army ...
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acres amount Arkansas Army engineers backwater area BARRON BEGG Big Lake bill Black River bonds breaks build Butler County cent CHAIRMAN commerce committee Congress construction cost COSTON Craighead County crops DAGGETT damage delinquent Doctor TAYLOR DUNBAR Dunklin County effect expenditures extend farm Federal Government Federal interest feet flood control flood waters flooded area floodway Francis Basin Francis County Francis levee district Francis River gentlemen give improvement JONES Judge Driver KOPP Lee County Little River Little River drainage loss LYNCH Madrid County Marked Tree ment miles Mississippi County Mississippi River Missouri Missouri and Arkansas navigation overflow Parkin pellagra Pemiscot County PHARR Poinsett County protection question railroad Red Cross relief REYNOLDS RHYNE road SEAGRAVES SEARS situation statement Stoddard County stream taxes territory tion Total tributaries TSCHUDY United week ending Thursday WHITTINGTON
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Page 14 - Engineers, no money shall be expended on the main river project until satisfactory assurances have been given by the local interests that after completion the flood-control works will be maintained at the expense of local interests.
Page 77 - The whole scope and effect of this series of decisions is that, while certain fundamental rights, recognized and declared, but not granted or created, in some of the Amendments to the Constitution, are thereby guaranteed only against violation or abridgment by the United States, or by the States, as the case may be...
Page 77 - Court. the exercise of the correlative duty of protection, or of the legislative powers conferred upon it by the Constitution, may in its discretion deem most eligible and best adapted to attain the object.
Page 76 - Citizens of the United States were in custody of the marshal under a lawful commitment, from whom they were violently taken and murdered. The alleged murderers were indicted under section 5508, Revised Statutes, which made it a crime to conspire to injure any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of a right secured him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
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