Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — SURVEY OF WABASH BEGINS. [ARTICLE]

SURVEY OF WABASH BEGINS.

Government Engineers Make First Soundings at Terre Haste.

Terre Haute, Ind., July 18.—The survey of the Wabash river from this city to its mouth may be said to have formally begun today when thirty government engineers, in the employ of* the Rivers and Harbors Commission and under the direction of Engineer George Walbrecht, of Louisville, Ky., took the first soundings. The crew of engineers arrived this morning, and, with the oarsmen, cooks and caretakers, makes up a party of sixty-five men, who will determine whether or not the Wabash river will be made navigable from this city to ML Carmel, HL