Chicago : Engineering and Contracting Pub. Co. · leaf 451
stof reclaiming these tracts as based on thecontract price of a number of 3,000-acreunits is estimated by the engineers to beabout as follows: For building levee and out-side canal all round the tract, $8 per acre;for reservoir canals of sufficient capacity tocare for runoff from maximum rainfall,… … Black Prince doyou Lncj VCcntg Plan of Drainage Canals and Laterals for Reclaiming Louisiana Swamp Land. lands and the untimbcred swamp lands. Thetimber lands cost considerably more to putinto condition than do the swamp lands, be-cause the heavy roots make the use of dredgesimpracticable. The…
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