Excerpt from A Deep Waterway From the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico: Papers Before the Western Society of Engineers The Legislative Committee of the Illinois River Valley Associa tion, in the line of its duty to the residents of the Illinois Valley and the country at large, undertakes a wider circulation of this important series of papers for the benefit of those who have given little direct study to the problems, and are concerned in shaping public sentiment. The committee urges all who have an interest in the subject to read these papers carefully, and in that connection to consider the present and future welfare of our valley, our state and our country. The projects and estimates are briefly recapitulated in the fol lowing notes' 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.