Map of the Mississippi River stretching from Alton, Illinois to Saint Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois. Includes islands (Kerr's Island; Cabaret Island; Chouteau Island; Wilson's Island; Mobile Island; Ellis Island) and railroads (CH. A. & ST. L. R. R.; St. L. A. & T. H. R. R.; Edwardsville Coal R. R.; O. & M. R. R.)., From: Message of the mayor, and reports of city officers : delivered to the city council.
1 document, May 30, 1819, D. S., transcribing the agreements made to widen a canal and create a reservoir by the Rivanna Company. Original minutes of the Rivanna company were taken by N. H. Lewis and transcribed by Jefferson to this document.
1826 map of the State of Missouri, with counties, mountains, towns and rivers included. Arkansas Territory is also mapped out similarly. Native American villages are noted to the west of Missouri.
assembly of the state, March4, 1819, and named for William W. Alexander who lived at America. He was a practicing physician, a politician and public man. He was a member of the legislature in 1882 and 1840 and Speaker of the House in 1822 and 1824. The area of Alexander county is 220 square miles. Cairo yesterday was \"a town set down in a low, flat plain and surrounded by high levees from which one
Tows comprised of barges were lashed together by manila ropes called \"lines\" in the early days of towboating. These, with other modern improvements, have, in part, been replaced by chains or cables with ratchet pulling jacks for tightening or reducing \"slack\". Ratchet pulling jacks were originally designed for steamboat and river work in hitching tows, fastening rafts, floats, etc. However, they have been so improved that they are now being extensively used in building construction and shipbuilding for fastening and holding in place the skeleton steel framework, derricks, masts, forms, etc. In railroad work they have proven a valuable tool for wrecking crews. In quarries and coal mines for fastening either permanent or temporary guys.