Excerpt from Memorial to Congress: To Secure an Adequate Appropriation for a Prompt and Thorough Improvement of the Mississippi River With an Appendix The following paper, prepared in the interest of the St. Louis Board of Trade, was submitted to the St. Paul Convention and referred by that body to its Executive Committee for action. In accordance with a vote of this Committee, the article - enlarged by the introduction of a few statistics which have been Obtained since the date of the Convention - is annexed to the memorial, as a fuller presentation of the arguments in favor of a Congressional appropriation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.