Excerpt from Proceedings of the Mississippi River Improvement Convention, Held at Dubuque, Iowa, February 14th and 15th, 1866 Er. Meeting at the Hall of the Produce Exchange, 1 Remarks of Senator Stubbs, Representative Hale, Stanard, and others, 1-6 Organization of the Convention, 7 Gen. Vandever'e Letter, 9-10 Speech of Mv. Robb, f 10 Effect of premfnt transportation on our producers, 10-12 Productiveuesspf the nortll-west, 12 - 14 The propel tion of our Agricultural Exports, furnished by five Upper Mississippi States, How much American touage they employ, Advance in Freights. 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.

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