REPORT ON THE MISSISSIPPI JETTIES, August 18, 1876 cover and caption title

by James B. Eads

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

New York : np, 1876. One of two 1876 editions another issue or edition printed 25 pages and seven folding charts . 8vo. 24 pp. 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 successfully completed in 1879. Original printed

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