Excerpt from Report of the Mississippi River Commission Showing Progress From October 1, 1884, to June 30, 1885: Being Appendix Ww2 of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1885 This Commission, organized under the provisions of the act of June 28, 1879, reports to and receives instructions from the Secretary of War through this Office. Information regarding the progress of the Commission in its duties was transmitted to Congress, as required by the above act, in a report dated December which was printed as House Ex. Doc. No. 64, Forty-eighth Congress, second session. 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.