Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors |
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28 feet 30-foot project 35 feet 35-foot channel 35-foot survey absolutely ACHESON agitate ALEXANDER Atlantic coast avenue amounted believe bill BURGESS Butler's district cent Chairman and gentlemen channel is completed city appropriation city of Philadelphia coal Colonel Morrell commercial body COMMITTEE ON RIVERS competition deeper channel Delaware River project delphia desire dredging engineers estimate expense favorable foreign freight greater guarantee a 30-foot heard hearing helping HOLTON interests introduced LAWRENCE maintenance Major Sanford Maritime Exchange matter meet the conditions mittee Monongahela River MOON MOORE national question navigable necessary necessity ourselves Panama Canal Pennsylvania phia Phila Philadel port of Philadelphia present project question of cost regard REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS respect REYBURN River from 1894 Rivers and Harbors schooner sessions of Congress shoals simply STATEMENT subcommittee sufficient depth Tennessee thing tide tions to-day tonnage tons trade transportation United want the survey water front waterway York
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Page 16 - On the other side of the river we have the city of Chester, and then the city of Wilmington, Del., which is practically on the banks of the Delaware.