The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-22
RIVER IMPROVEMENT
COMMUNITIES EXPECTED TO DO
THEIR SHARE SAYS CON-
GRESHAM TAWNEY.
ALTON NEXT MEETING PLACE
Main Officers Reelected by Upper
Mississippi Observation-Disclosures
Need of Flour Said to Insure
Aid in Waterways Work.

st. Paul, Minn-Congress expects
every state and every municipality
along the Mississippi river to show
it's appreciation of the recent appro-
priations made for river Improvement
by providing proper terminals and
maintaining proper freight handling
facilities so that the river can be utll-
lied for transportation. This is the
statement of Congressman Tawney OF
Winona, chairman of the committee
on appropriations. Mr.. Tawney gave
a short address before the convention
of the Upper Mississippi Improvement
association at it's closing session.
Congress was glad of the oppor-
tunity to appropriate money for this
purpose of improving the rivers, but
it expects that the states and cities
will now do their part" said Mr.. Taw-
ney.
Thomas Wilkinson of Burlington,
Iowa, was reelected president OF the
association; Lewis B. Boswell of Quin-
cy, Illinois, secretary, and ]. P. Eek
hart, treasurer, were both reelected.
The following were named as vice.
presidents of the association: j. G..
Arneson, Saltwater, Mimi; Wendell A..
Anderson, La Crosse, Wis; w. A..
Meese, Moline, ILL.,; L. A. Hamell, Keo-
kuk, Iowa, and J. ]. Martin, ST. Louis
Mo.
Alton, ILL.,, was selected as the place
of meeting for next year. There was
no opposition to the selection.
Resolutions thanking Congressman
Tawney for his work in getting in
creased appropriations were passed.
The reservoir system of the upper
Mississippi was Endorsed and the con-
vention asked not only that it be main
tanned but that it be enlarged.
Now that congress has appropriated
the money for six-foot channel and
other extensive improvements in the
river, the convention went on record
as believing that it was incumbent on
municipalities and business Organiza-
lions to see that proper terminals and
landings were constructed and that
freight handling facilities were provid-
ed. 1t also recommended that the
building of modern steel craft be en-
couraged.
The Upper Mississippi River I'm
provement association will continue
it's membership in the National Rivers
and Harbors congress and will also
cooperate with all other kindred or
CARNATIONS in securing improvements
for the river. This intention was in
cluded in the text of the resolution.
Minneapolis flour is the product
most demanded by the states of the
lower Mississippi valley, and for that
reason these states are willing to CO.
operate in securing improvements in
waterways in the upper Mississippi.
This is the opinion of Thomas H.
Lovelace, secretary of the Lake to the
Gulf Deep Waterways association, who
addressed the convention in the morn
ing.
South Demands Flour.
"Iron ore lies in abundance at the
headwaters of the Mississippi and
should be brought down for smelling.
Paper pulp and all manner of forest
products come ALSO" said Mr.. Love-
lace, "but most of all the lower Mis-
sissippi demands the flour from the
Minneapolis mills for domestic and ex-
port trade, in return for which it will
send up in great quantities cotton for
the Oriental trade, sugar, coffee, rice,
hardwood and all the imports from the
world at large that enter the gates of
New Orleans"
Appropriations for Work.
''The generous appropriations of
this year, grudgingly permitted to pass
by the opponents in the legislative and
executive departments of the govern
ment, bear strong testimony to the
power of public opinion which has
been aroused by the river improve
ment association"
Governor Eberhart delivered an ad.
dress before the association, in which
he dwelt particularly on the relations
between water transportation and
| transportation by rail.
| Manly VI luO UOSI m6u To
day realize that water transportation
and railroad transportation must work
| together" said the governor. ct is
as much advantage to the railroad to
have the waterways deepened as it is
to anyone else. The railroad cannot
handle all of the business. However
with six-foot canal, bulky material
can be shipped by water. This will
be a great blessing to the railroads
themselves and l am sure that they
will cooperate. Minnesota is perhaps
more intensely interested in the de-
velopment of interior waterways than
any other state in the Union
BLINDPIGGERs CAUGHT.