Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-25
TO Be AT ST. PAUL
Annual Meeting of Upper River
Improvement Association
July 1918.
CIRCULARS ARE ISSUED
Cities, Towns and Villages in the
Mississippi Valley Urged to
Send Delegates.

Circulars are out calling attention
to the annual meeting OF the Upper
Mississippi River Improvement asso-
citation as follows:
THE ninth annual convention of the
Upper Mississippi River Improvement
| association will be held at s. Paul,
Mimi, Tuesday and Wednesday, July
II and 13, 1910, in the assembly rooms
of the United Commercial Travellers
of America, Fourth and st. Peters
streets.
The governors of Illinois, Missouri.
Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin; the
mayors of all cities, towns and vii
lagos; all commercial and business
mems associations, and all other civic
or municipal bodies or organizations
in the upper Mississippi valley, and
kindred waterway associations. are
each respectfully invited to select
three representative delegates 70 az
tend this convention. The delegates
appointed by the governors to repre-
sent their state at large.
please make the appointments and
notify the secretary of this association,
giving him the name and postoffice
address of each delegate as early as
possible.
Each delegate should be furnished
with proper credentials. which may be
presented TO the committee on creden-
tials at the opening of the convention.
The object of this association is TO
secure the early completion of the
project as adopted by congress for a
six-foot channel, at low water, in the
upper Mississippi river from Mime
apolis to the mouth of the Missouri
river.
Large Attendance Urged.
The importance Of having a large
attendance at this convention is APP
parent.
Every business interest I'm the up
per Mississippi valley that will be
benefited by improved river navigation
is deeply concerned and should be
prominent at this convention.
THE general advance in freight
rates by rail, now being made. mares
it all the more imperative that free
and open transportation by water be
afforded the people, wherever posi-
Bile, as a means of relief.
stimulus should be gipen TO the
introduction and operation of modern
river craft and terminal facilities for
economical freight service; and the
removal OF all distractions to trans
portation by water routes should be
strongly advocated
Congress, and the entire country,
should know that the people in this
valley are alive TO the importance and
that they intend taking advantage of
the opportunities that will result from
an improved river, with certainty
of its being permanently navigable.
These are important propositions,
and the great industries should unite
in voicing their sentiments regarding
them; also in approval OF the efforts
of our association, which has accom-
plished so much within a brief period.
No one will deny that to the active
work of this association before con-
gress and the people Is due the legisla-
ton embodied n the present river
end harbor bill now before congress.
providing for the completion of the
Of tn upper Mississippi
river within a given time.
This convention will afford the OPP
portunity and occasion for bringing
to the front pertinent subjects"