Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... black line- [ indicating ] , as you know . Our open land is along the front . There are about 2,000 acres of open land . The back land is timberland . The whole tract com- prises 4,115 acres . This tract of land we have owned about 30 ...
... black line- [ indicating ] , as you know . Our open land is along the front . There are about 2,000 acres of open land . The back land is timberland . The whole tract com- prises 4,115 acres . This tract of land we have owned about 30 ...
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... Black Hawk , new levee . RECAPITULATION , BY PARISHES 1 Area in Concordia Parish included . 857.15 857.15 9,500.00 9,500.00 3,025.00 Van Fossen plantation . Wilson. White Oak levee . 20 , 341. 01 1,688 . 71 1 , 159. 26 393.88 United ...
... Black Hawk , new levee . RECAPITULATION , BY PARISHES 1 Area in Concordia Parish included . 857.15 857.15 9,500.00 9,500.00 3,025.00 Van Fossen plantation . Wilson. White Oak levee . 20 , 341. 01 1,688 . 71 1 , 159. 26 393.88 United ...
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... Black Hawk Levee ( 1928-29 ) . unknown .... $ 1,025.00 United States Vidalia Point , new levee ( 1934 ). Tabulation of right - of - way acquired by Fifth Louisiana Levee District for construction of United States levees under Flood ...
... Black Hawk Levee ( 1928-29 ) . unknown .... $ 1,025.00 United States Vidalia Point , new levee ( 1934 ). Tabulation of right - of - way acquired by Fifth Louisiana Levee District for construction of United States levees under Flood ...
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... black the work that has been done on the west bank . That levee line extends down to Point Breeze . On the south , the Old River , on the Mississippi River at this point , on the old river to the Gulf we have levee lines on both sides of ...
... black the work that has been done on the west bank . That levee line extends down to Point Breeze . On the south , the Old River , on the Mississippi River at this point , on the old river to the Gulf we have levee lines on both sides of ...
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... Black River , a basin about 200 miles in length , which is known to your committee as the White River Valley and its tributaries . We know that White River and its problems of flood control have been be- fore this committee in previous ...
... Black River , a basin about 200 miles in length , which is known to your committee as the White River Valley and its tributaries . We know that White River and its problems of flood control have been be- fore this committee in previous ...
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100 percent acre ally paid Act of 1928-Continued amount obligation paid Amount taken Assessed Amounts not paid Arkansas Ascension Parish Atchafalaya Basin Levee Atchafalaya levee district Basin Levee District Bayou Boeuf Bayou Goula Black River built under Flood CHAIRMAN Charles Parish construction material_ Contract construction of United cost of project district for construction Flood Control Act Highway Levee Highway Highway Total amount Iberville Parish James Parish Lafourche Levee District Lake Borgne Landry length levee board Levee Highway Levee levee highway project Levee Highway Total levees built material_ Contract payments ments actu miles miscellaneous expenses Mississippi River old levee paid by Atchafalaya paid to date plantation Plaquemine Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Pontchartrain Levee District Port Allen Price per ments right-of-way acquired Right-of-way and miscellaneous river edge set-back levees Tabulation of right-of-way taken Assessed value toe of old Total amount obligation Total cost United States levees value of land WHITTINGTON
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Page 204 - District is composed of the parishes of East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia.
Page 33 - ENGINEER OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: The levee boards and the board of State engineers of Louisiana are very much impressed with the statements made here by General Brown and General Ferguson on the development of the problems of flood control and the execution of the adopted plan, insofar as it affects Louisiana, at the recent hearings...
Page 202 - ... accountability, it would transfer the responsibility for the administration of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act from its Board of Directors appointed by the President for that purpose to the General Accounting Office in Washington. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon. (Whereupon the committee recessed until 3 pm of the same day.) AFTER RECESS (The committee reassembled at 3 pm, pursuant to recess.) The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please be in order. I believe...
Page 10 - ... is worthy of your consideration. I am not asking for an increase in the appropriation. It is just a matter of getting the most for the money that you are going to spend. I thank you, gentlemen. Mr. WOODRUM. Thank you, Mr. McClellan. THURSDAY MAY 6, 1937. RELIEF APPROPRIATION Mr. WOODRUM. Mr. Lasser, if you desire to make a statement, we will be very glad to year you at this time. STATEMENT OF DAVID IASSER, REPRESENTING THE WORKERS' ALLIANCE OF AMERICA Mr. LASSER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of...