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Excerpt from Memorial of the Merchants' Exchange, Representatives of Industrial Bodies and the Municipal Government of Saint Louis: To the Fifty-Second Congress of the United States in Favor of the Improvement of the Navigation of the Mississippi River Your memorialists, the Executive Committee, of merchants, manufacturers and representatives of the municipal government of St. Louis, selected at a meeting called by the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange, to present to the Congress of the United States the interests of the people of the Mississippi Valley, in connection with their great river, and urge their claims for the general improvement of the navigation of that stream, beg leave respectfully to ask the attention of the National Legislature to the facts and considerations herewith submitted. The appropriations granted in the last twenty years, and expended in fragmentary and local improvements, have been of great benefit to navigation, in removing temporary obstructions and dangers, and deepening parts of the channel that had become clogged with bars and reefs, and increasing the depth of water, at low stage, over difficult short stretches. And it is the success of these local improvements and their manifest and admitted value to boatmen that suggest the wider, general system of improvement which it is the object of this memorial to press upon the intelligent and patriotic consideration of the National Legislature. 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.