Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1909 — DISCREDITS REPORT ON WATERWAY BY ARMY [ARTICLE]

DISCREDITS REPORT ON WATERWAY BY ARMY

Says Engineers Cannot Judge’ Commercial Value of Project. St. Louis, June B.—Tn a letter to Phillip Worlein, New Orleans, W. K. Kavanaugh. president of the Lakes to. the Gulf Deep Waterway association, asserts that the opinion of army engineers as to the commercial value of the project will have little significance. Kavanaugh declined to make public the full text of his letter to Worlein, but said it contained the statement that army engineers were not qualified to pass on the commercial value of s the waterway improvement.