Memorial of John Cowdon on Matters Pertaining to the improvement of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries and Stopping the Overlow of their Valley Lands by COWDON, John - 1893

Washington, 1893. Hardcover. Near Fine. 52d Congress, 2d Session. Mis. Doc. No. 38. 52 p. 24 cm. One map and one fold-out chart. Bound in cream cloth with marbled paper boards. Former owner's label on a front endpaper. Title continues: In reply to some of the assumptions and misstatements of the Mississippi River Commission, and also additional evidence sustaining charges made against that Commission in Senate Mis. Doc. No. 178, Fifty-Second Congress first session. Also giving many valuable statistics and historical references vindicating the outlet system as the best way to stop all overflows, stop the caving of banks, and deepening the low-water channels of the Mississippi River and its tributaries from their mouths to their navigable sources.