The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-13
MEIGS PARTY
At OT7UMWA
The Party Will Reach ottumwa This
Afternoon or Tomorrow Some
Time In Their Des
MoInes Journey.
| WILL BE RECEIVED
ottumwans Are Planning to Show the
Engineering Party the City
! and Different Points
of Interest.
WILL BE RECEIVED

! Major Meigs and party in the launch
this afternoon or tomorrow, having
left Des Moines on Tuesday afternoon.
& reception is being planned for the
party at Ottumwa which city will see
to it that the engineers are well enter
tanned by a trip through the city and
other courtesies extended them during
their stay at that place.
! Regarding the trip, the Ottumwa
Courier of last evening has the fol-
loving to say:
/ Those who have felt dubious regard
ing the survey by the government of
the Iowa navigable streams and those
streams that by the expenditure of no
great sum of money can be made so,
viii have received a shock to their in
oredulity by the announced plans of
the government engineer, Major NJ.
Meigs, who with surveying party will
make a general survey of the. stream
and report to Washington his findings
u the end of that the Des Moines river
{ least be canalized and commerce
be given a new means CT Transports
ton. Ottumwa will welcome the news
ard hearty reception and welcome
will be accorded Major Meigs and par
ty upon the arrival in the city
The Commercial association have the
matter in hand and their waterways
committee is in readiness upon short
notice to meet and be at the service
OF the surveying party.
ottumwans to Meet Party.
The plan of the committee is tc
meet the party at Chillicothe or some
other point up the stream from Ottum
wa, and to assist the committee in this
arrangement, the Ottumwa Oarsmer
have kindly taken up with the spirit
in the movement and volunteered the
services of ten launches for the con
Senience of the committee and some
the representative citizens to the
meeting point. in order that the party
be escorted to the city as we'll as to be
given pilots who know the stream IN
his vicinity. 1t is planned to have the
Cttumwa committee notified when the
PARTY arrive at Eddyville as this will
give the Ottumwans sufficient time tic
make ready the launches and assem-
lie the meeting party in order that the
arrangement as planned be. carried
cut without hitch. Upon the arrival
CT the party in Ottumwa an automobile
corps will convey the visitors about
tie city where the factories. CONNER
al concerns and shippers generally
Will be visited and thus give the party
lie information desired regarding data
as to shipping from and to Ottumwa.
Plan Reception.
1t is planned that the party will ar
rye in the city Thursday afternoon OF
Friday, and in the event that they
spend the night in Ottumwa, recep
ton will be accorded them by the as
ISOLATION. and one of the party will
give an address. as will also some OF
TIE local business men. Nothing will
be left undone to make the visit in
Ottumwa a successful one and all that
can be done to assist the surveying
party in their cruise on the Des
Moines will be done.
Thomas Gives information.
Major Meigs' boat, the Hornet,
which was shipped to Des Moines
from Keokuk last week, arrived in the