A Traffic History Of The Mississippi River System Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Work of the Mississippi River Commission The Mississippi River lies almost unused in the most rapidly develop ing traffic region in the continent. It rises in the northern part of Minne sota and flows almost due southward. Emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. No other river system in the world offers such natural facilities for internal and external trade. As does the Mississippi and its branches. The basin of the river consists of nearly all the land in the United States between the Rocky and Allegheny Mountains. And has an area of one million two hundred and forty-four thousand square miles. For the purpose of traffic and engineering development. The river may be divided into six principal streams or collections; the main river below St. Louis. The Ohio. The Chicago-illinois route to the lakes. The Upper Mississippi, the Missouri. And the minor tributaries. The last includes. By a free use of the term. The Tennessee. The Cumberland. The Arkansas, and the Red River. The six divisions comprise at least eighteen thousand miles of channel susceptible of development to a navigable stage. Not including the allied waters to which they are connected. There has been no accurate estimate, but it is certain that more than sixteen thousand miles have actually been traversed by steam-boats and have been taken in charge by federal engineers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.