Flood Control in the Mississippi Valley: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on a Plan to Modify and Extend the Project for Flood Control and Improvement of the Mississippi River Authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1928. April 1 to 13, 1935 |
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... statement in chief that were it not for that you would probably take the position that the Government did not have that much interest in it . General MARKHAM . No ; not quite that . I said that I thought that the Government had an ...
... statement in chief that were it not for that you would probably take the position that the Government did not have that much interest in it . General MARKHAM . No ; not quite that . I said that I thought that the Government had an ...
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... statement was made that only about 30 cents of this character of work would go to labor , then that statement was wrong ? General MARKHAM . Quite wrong . It could not be so . Mr. McGROARTY . Eighty - two cents ? General MARKHAM . About ...
... statement was made that only about 30 cents of this character of work would go to labor , then that statement was wrong ? General MARKHAM . Quite wrong . It could not be so . Mr. McGROARTY . Eighty - two cents ? General MARKHAM . About ...
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... statement there , with reference to the condition that obtained between the Arkansas River , or the mouth of the Arkansas River , and Arkansas City , apply to the present condition , or does that condition which is set forth in your ...
... statement there , with reference to the condition that obtained between the Arkansas River , or the mouth of the Arkansas River , and Arkansas City , apply to the present condition , or does that condition which is set forth in your ...
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... statement is correct ? General FERGUSON . I say that I do not say it is correct . I think it is their estimate , and estimates and facts are different things . I do not think the river acts that way ; so it is just a fundamentally ...
... statement is correct ? General FERGUSON . I say that I do not say it is correct . I think it is their estimate , and estimates and facts are different things . I do not think the river acts that way ; so it is just a fundamentally ...
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... statement ? You have not those figures here ? General FERGUSON . I have not the figures here . Mr. WHITTINGTON . You will insert them or have the district engi- neer insert them ? General FERGUSON . The district engineer will give the ...
... statement ? You have not those figures here ? General FERGUSON . I have not the figures here . Mr. WHITTINGTON . You will insert them or have the district engi- neer insert them ? General FERGUSON . The district engineer will give the ...
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1928 tabulation acres amount Arkansas City Arkansas River Army engineers assessed value Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River backwater area Bayou Boeuf Basin Boeuf floodway bonds issued bonds paid bonds unpaid build CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers committee Congress construction cost County crevasse cut-offs DEAR drainage bonds Drainage District East Carroll East Carroll Parish Eudora floodway feet FERGUSON Flood Control Act flood heights flood waters flowage rights Francis River fuseplug levee gage GILLISON Government grade and section guide levee highway improvements JACOBS Jadwin plan KLORER land levee board Levee District Lieutenant Colonel HODGES Louisiana Major HOGE Major OLIVER Markham plan MCCLELLAN miles Mississippi River Commission Missouri Morehouse Parish Morganza Morganza spillway overflow Parish PHARR proposed protection question railroad RANSDELL recommendation reservoirs SANDERS second-feet statement superflood Tensas Tensas Parish tion Total tributaries United valley Vicksburg WHITTINGTON WILLIAMSON Yazoo River ZIMMERMAN
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Page 744 - I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution passed by the board of directors of the Tallulah State Bank & Trust Co.
Page 33 - War that they will (a) maintain all flood-control works after their completion, except controlling and regulating spillway structures, including special relief levees; maintenance includes normally such matters as cutting grass, removal of weeds, local drainage, and minor repairs of main river levees...
Page 801 - I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, for scheduling this hearing.
Page 566 - That the sum of $5,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be allotted by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood including the flood of 1927.
Page 270 - ... a tax sufficient to pay for said property so taken, not to exceed one-fourth of one mill on the dollar...
Page 210 - I do not want to take up the time of the committee but I am very much interested.
Page 253 - Authority, certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the resolution adopted by the board of directors for Brazos River Authority at the regular meeting on October 16, 1956, held in Mineral Wells, Tex.
Page 22 - River it is impracticable to construct levees, either because such construction is not economically justified or because such construction would unreasonably restrict the flood channel, and lands in such stretch of the river are subjected to overflow and damage which are not now overflowed or damaged by reason of the construction of levees on the opposite banks of the river...
Page 25 - River for protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent of National concern in the control of these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the...
Page 340 - Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the committee. First I would like to express my...