Atlantic-Gulf Ship Canal, FlaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 571 pages |
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Army engineers artesian Atlantic BATES BEITER benefits Board of Engineers BORJES Bradenton CARTER CHAIRMAN channel Chief of Engineers citrus coast COLDEN COLMER Colonel SOMERVELL commerce committee construction cost County CULKIN damage depth DONDERO dredges Dunnellon effect Engineers for Rivers estimate excavation fact Florida Canal flow fresh water Geological Survey geologist going GREEN ground water ground-water growers Gulf Gulf of Mexico HUGHES indicating Jacksonville Johns River Lake lock canal MACDONALD MARKHAM MENDENHALL Miami miles Ocala limestone Ocala rock Oklawaha River operation PAIGE Palatka Panama Canal peninsula percent PETERSON PILLSBURY PIRNIE ports question railroads rainfall rates reservoir revisory board Rivers and Harbors salt water Sanford saving sea level sea-level canal ship canal Silver Springs statement STRINGFIELD surface Tampa tankers tion tonnage traffic underground water United States Geological vessels water supply water table WILLOUGHBY Withlacoochee River
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Page 134 - Association express its sympathy in the death of one of its members and extend condolences to his family, and be it further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this Association and that a copy be sent to his family.
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Page 179 - After ninety days after this paragraph takes effect no carrier by railroad subject to this act shall undertake the extension of its line of railroad or the construction of a new line of railroad...
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Page 134 - ... representative of the city of St. Petersburg at the public hearing. Adopted at a regular session of the city council held on the 8th day of December AD 1936. VERNON G. AGEE, Vice Mayor, Councilman, Vice Chairman of the City Council. Attest: [SEAL] GV LELAND, Clerk of the City Council. I, TL Crossland, do hereby certify that I am the clerk of the city council of the city of St. Petersburg, Fla., and as such officer have in my custody the original files and records of said city, and I further certify...
Page 154 - A most important and pertinent question raised by the advocates for the conservation of the ground waters of Florida is the effect of a 95-mile ditch cut into the Ocala limestone 36 feet below sea level, across the catchment area that supplies the greater part of the artesian water of Florida. Such a ditch will so intercept and contaminate the ground waters of the Florida Peninsula as to destroy much of the beauty and charm of the great winter playground of the Nation, and at the same time ruin its...
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Page 173 - The one concern commenting favorably upon the construction of the canal said that they "are mainly engaged in the transportation of cargoes of blackstrap molasses from the West Indies to the Gulf or to the North Atlantic ports," but "during the fall and winter months when the heavy movement of molasses is over," they "sometimes find it desirable to operate one or two of their tank steamers in the oil trade.