Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... Jacobs was speaking . Mr. Jacobs , do you have any further statement right now ? Mr. JACOBS . Yes , sir ; I would like to finish the statement I started yesterday . The CHAIRMAN . I believe Dr. Wolfe was to go on this morning . Mr ...
... Jacobs was speaking . Mr. Jacobs , do you have any further statement right now ? Mr. JACOBS . Yes , sir ; I would like to finish the statement I started yesterday . The CHAIRMAN . I believe Dr. Wolfe was to go on this morning . Mr ...
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... Jacobs , taking the 74,000 acres involved , do you have the portion in cultivation and the portion not in cultivation ? Mr. JACOBS . No ; not as a whole . Mr. RICH . The valuation of swampland would be a very small amount in comparison ...
... Jacobs , taking the 74,000 acres involved , do you have the portion in cultivation and the portion not in cultivation ? Mr. JACOBS . No ; not as a whole . Mr. RICH . The valuation of swampland would be a very small amount in comparison ...
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... JACOBS . We have the different classifications of the lands , and the assessed valuation . Mr. DEAR . But that only applies to Louisiana ? Mr. JACOBS . So far as our records go . Mr. DEAR . But what I am trying to get data on is with ...
... JACOBS . We have the different classifications of the lands , and the assessed valuation . Mr. DEAR . But that only applies to Louisiana ? Mr. JACOBS . So far as our records go . Mr. DEAR . But what I am trying to get data on is with ...
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... JACOBS . We have the same thing for the State of Louisiana , a completed list from 1928 down to the present date . The CHAIRMAN . Could you make that a part of the record at this point , a summary of how much you have saved and how much ...
... JACOBS . We have the same thing for the State of Louisiana , a completed list from 1928 down to the present date . The CHAIRMAN . Could you make that a part of the record at this point , a summary of how much you have saved and how much ...
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... Jacobs might conclude his statement relative to H. R. 7349. He has certain data that we believe would be very ... JACOBS , ASSOCIATE ENGINEER , STATE BOARD OF ENGINEERS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS . Mr. Chairman and members of ...
... Jacobs might conclude his statement relative to H. R. 7349. He has certain data that we believe would be very ... JACOBS , ASSOCIATE ENGINEER , STATE BOARD OF ENGINEERS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS . Mr. Chairman and members of ...
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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...