People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — For Mississippi Improvement [ARTICLE]

For Mississippi Improvement

Minneapolis, Minn., June 26.—A convention for the Improvement of the Upper Mississippi is now in session here, delegates being in attendance from Grand Rapids, Aitken, St. Cloud, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and from St. Louis. The government will be asked to open navigation on the Upper Mississippi as far as Grand Rapids. This would necessitate a number of canals around falls, but the plan is'declared perfectly feasible by Major W. A. Jones, government engineer in charge of the Northwest. H. V. Winchell, of Minneapolis, was made chairman, and E. A. Creamer, of Grand Rapids, secretary.