Controlling the floods of Mississippi

✍ Scribed by Lewis M. Haupt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1904
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 157
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(04)90364-x

✦ Synopsis

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men, I should answer: it is a technical question, and this is always one interesting me. Besides that, I have aIways felt a great sympathy for your great commonwealth, and as the Mississippi basin is the greatest in your republic, and millions depend upon its good condition, I could not refrain from giving my views, when I saw that your engineers are on the wrong trail, and to show you what, in my view, is the right one.

Respectfully yours, H. VAN ~[IGERTEN. BUITENZORG, JAVA, December I9, I9O 3. P. S.--I beg to add to the above, that the monthly illustrated paper Eigen Idaard (Own Hearth), edited at Amsterdam, contains many well written articles in popular style about Krayenhof, Caland, the Conrads and their works; but for real technical information one should consult the great works about "Waterbouwkunde " and the proceedings of the "Koninklyk Instituut van Ingenieurs.