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UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. Navigation along the MISSISSIPPI RIVER had proven difficult for years. Efforts at creating and maintaining a 4.5 foot deep channel proved inadequate. Businesses from Minneapolis to the mouth of the Missouri River organized into the Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association and petitioned Congress in 1904 to develop a six-foot channel. (1)
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1. To Congress from the Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association, 1904, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Online: http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/digital/missriver/MissRiverImprovAssn/0002000B.htm