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12 feet deep 15 feet 21 feet appropriation area in Florida Atlantic Ocean authorize a survey authorized a preliminary Belle Board of Engineers bordering its shores Caloosa Caloosahatchee Canal Caloosahatchee improvement district Caloosahatchee River drainage Chief of Engineers Colonel Brooke COMMITTEE ON FLOOD cost thereof county seat crops cubic feet depth district engineer division engineer drain DRANE Engi Everglades exact words Federal Government feet per second floated FLOOD CONTROL SURVEY Fort Myers Fort Thompson FREAR Gulf of Mexico harbors bill harbors to carry hatchee indicating January JANUARY 26 Kissimmee River Lake Okee lower the level Lucie Canal Major Sultan matter Miami Mississippi River Myers necessary o'clock a. m. preliminary survey problem protection reclaim recommendation request River drainage area rivers and harbors SEARS of Florida SEARS of Nebraska shores in Florida storm SURVEY OF CALOOSAHATCHEE SWING territory bordering Thereafter United WHITTINGTON WILSON written report yesterday
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Page 1 - ... Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a survey of the Caloosahatchee River drainage area in Florida and to determine what control works are necessary for navigation in connection with flood control and the cost thereof, and also a survey of Lake Okeechobee in Florida and certain territory bordering its shores and from Lake Okeechobee to the Atlantic Ocean to determine what measures are necessary for flood control, such as additional diking and outlets, and further...
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Page 1 - Bt it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a survey of the Caloosahatchee River drainage area in Florida and to determine what control works are necessary for navigation in connection with flood control and the cost thereof, and also a survey of Lake Okeechobee in Florida and certain territory bordering its shores and from Lake Okeechobee to the Atlantic...
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