Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-06-13
Observation-Disclosures.
CONVENTION CALLED FOR DE-
GENDER 9 To II.
Congressman RandseII Says Insistence
of the People Will Bring Results
Bear on Senators and Representa-
tives-Sentiment Growing Strong.

II the fr1endS or adequate measures
for the improvement of rivers and har-
bors keep up their insistence, and if
they unite in a determined effort. the
coming session of the congress will
witness the enactment of the best
river and harbor law ever adopted in
this country, and that will be followed
by annual bills, with issuance of bonds,
if necessary"
Congressman Ransdell of Louisiana,
president of the national rivers and
harbors convention, gave utterance to
the foregoing, in discussing the pros
poets for accomplishing the results
aimed at by the organization of which
he is the head. He added:
After carefully reviewing the field,
consulting with the directors of our
association who met here during the
governors conference, and reducing
our deliberations to definite ex-
preston, the foregoing gives my belief.
Everything encourages us-the growth
of sentiment among the strong bust
ness and commercial interests, the
education of the people in the POSSIBLE
tiles of adequate water transportation
facilities, the active propaganda which
has been carried on; all of these
things point to success We find that
among the members of the congress
sentiment is increasingly in our favor
They are more and more realizing that
relief from cOngested traffic and too
high carrying charges must be had by
means of improving the waterways and
encouraging the water transportation.
Must Keep Working.
But our friends are often intermit
tent in their efforts, and instead OF
keeping everlastingly at it, they some
times quit for a time, and permit the
subject to get cold in the minds of the
local people.
From Louisiana and Arkansas tC
the Columbia river and Puget sound
the people must utilize every effort
and bring TO bear on their senators AND
representatives that pressure which
will bring results in action by them
1T is a large project; it involves the
expenditure of not less than $500 900,
600, and that gives pause TO some who
have not calculated the advantages
which would flow back TO the natiOI
from the investment Of that amount
Of money. But IL will pay largely OF
the investment
The entire world discussed the ca
nal across the isthmus Of Panama fol
400 years; and the national platforms
OF both OF the two great parties con
tanned endorsements Of the project FOL
~ years before final decision was OBJ
tanned from congress. That illustrate.
the necessity in this case-that 81
pressing the representatives in th'
congress "a carry into effect what un
doubleday today is the unified deman'
of the business aud commercial con
cerps of the nation
Urges Congressman.
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prepare to send adequate representa-
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