MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI: Jetty System Explained cover title

by James B. Eads

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

St. Louis, MO : Times Print, 1874. First edition. 8vo. 40 pp. Two folding frontispiece maps: S.W. Pass of the Mississippi and Coast Survey Chart Passes of the Mississippi. Eads 1820-1887 planned and headed the construction of the great bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis; hardly had this work been completed 1874 when Eads proposed to Congress to open one of the mouths of the Mississippi River in the Gulf and maintain the channel, DAB a task

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