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Excerpt from Sixty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Public Works, to the Governor of the State of Ohio, for the Year Ending November 15, 1905: Also the Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Public Works, the Chief Engineer of Public Works and the Ohio Canal Commission Acting as a Joint Board in the Management and Control of the State Public Parks and Pleasure Resorts of Ohio The action of 76th General Assembly in providing for the improve ment of the Northern Division of the Ohio Canal is the most important move in the affairs of the water ways that has been made in years. It is so recognized by the people throughout the State, and has been a potent factor in bringing about a change of sentiment favorable to the canals. Conditioned on the fulfillment of the provisions of Senate Bill no. 258, the General Government appropriated to build a dam across the Muskingum River between the city of Zanesville and the village of Dresden. The dam, when finished, will have completed the slackwater improvement in the Muskingum from Dresden to the Ohio River, and will have opened a water way for the shipment of unbroken packages from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Congress, by its action has demonstrated that it is fully alive. To the importance of the great work that has been taken up by the state. It is of the utmost importance that the incoming legislature make a continuing appropriation for the further prosecution of this improvement, and we would recommend that the amount be fixed at This would carry the work of improvement into the heart of the mining region and afford needed facilities in the transportation of coal and 0 her pro ducts from that section. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.