Report upon survey, with plans and estimates of cost, for a navigable waterway 14 feet deep from Lockport, Ill.
Subtitle: by way of Des Planes and Illinois rivers, to the mouth of said Illinois River, and thence by way of the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Mo., and for a navigable waterway of 7 and 8 feet depth, respectively, from the head of navigation of Illinois River at Lasalle, Ill., through said river to Ottawa, Ill.
By: by the Mississippi River Commission, covering the section below the mouth of the Illinois River, and by a board of officers of the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, covering the section above the mouth of the Illinois River.
Contributors: Ernst, Oswald H. 1842-1926.; Bixby, William Herbert, 1849-1928.; Casey, Thos. L. 1857-1925.; United States. Mississippi River Commission.
Series: 59th Cong., 1st sess. House. Doc. 263
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Inland navigation -- Illinois; Illinois River (Ill.) -- Surveys; Des Plaines River (Wis. and Ill.) -- Surveys; Mississippi River -- Surveys
Other titles: Report upon survey: a navigable waterway from Lockport, Ill. to St.Louis, Mo.
Notes: Ordered printed December 19, 1905.
Running title: Waterway, Lockport to St. Louis, etc.
Alexander Mackenzie, chief of engineers, U. S. A.
Report of Board of Engineers signed: O. H. Ernst, W. H. Bixby, Thos. L. Casey.
Report of Mississippi River Commission (p. 530-544) signed: O. H. Ernst, president, R. S. Taylor, J. A. Ockerson, Thos. L. Casey, Henry B. Richardson, Homer P. Ritter, Clinton B. Sears.