Sandbars posed the most persistent and frequent problem. It came at the insistence of the states, farmers, business interests and the general public. If built, this project would allow Minneapolis to become the head of navigation. Subsequent engineers reduced this number to six. Doc. According to most estimates, the Yellowstone River measures approximately 692 miles (1,114 kilometers) long. Congress rejected Meeker's request and the Minnesota Legislature's petition for a land grant in support of a lock and dam in 1866. The most comprehensive and authoritative history site on the Internet. In June and July of 1891, Mackenzie carried out even more accurate surveys of most of the river from the Minneapolis steamboat warehouse to the Short Line bridge below Meeker Island and of select areas down to the Minnesota River; see Annual Report, 1891, p. 2154. The Mississippi River facilitated this growth in two ways. With each new rail connection, steamboats made shorter trips between ports. C $24.12 . Responding in part to Minneapolis business and political interests, he requested $235,665 to construct a lock and dam at Meeker Island, which lay between Minneapolis and St. Paul. A circular trail connected the head of navigation of the Mississippi River with Pembina, North Dakota. During the frontier era, settlers used old animal and Indian trails, fording most streams or building crude rafts to cross larger rivers. It did not begin building the project, focusing instead on a provision in the grant that limited the company to selling no more than one section of land within a township. The keynote of the meeting was a determined effort to obtain federal money for the improvement of western waterways so that they might be used as reliable routes for cheap transportation.48 Cheap transportation, delegates argued, would allow the United States to monopolize the markets of the world.49, In May 1873, cheap transportation advocates held another convention in St. Louisthe Western Congressional Convention. In August 1870, Kelley left Minnesota by steamboat for St. Louis to secure direct trade arrangements between Minnesota and Missouri. At 692 miles, the Yellowstone River ranks . The first bridge to cross the river here, the Eads Bridge, was completed in 1874 and is still used today. Photo by Brady. In 1836, the ferry carried a 23-year-old New Yorker named Nelson Dewey across the river. And thus, Merrick recalled, we grew into the very life of the river as we grew in years.19 When old enough, Merrick began working on a steamboat as a cabin boy and after one season became a cub engineer. Rocks and rapids were a greater problem for steamboats trying to ply the river above St. Paul. The threat of a railroad monopoly, the commercial decline of the Mississippi River and rising dissatisfaction with his Republican party were of particular concern to Senator Windom (Figure 7). Frank Haigh Dixon, A Traffic History of the Mississippi River System, National Waterways Commission, Document No. Carey's 1822 Geographical, Statistical and Historical State Map of Arkansas. Merritt, Creativity, p. 141, says that When it appeared that the Mississippi River Improvement and Manufacturing Company would not be able to resolve its internal conflicts, Congress decided to give the project over to the Corps of Engineers. Neither author discusses who pushed Congress to authorize the project. Eager to begin the project, Major Francis Farquhar, the new St. Paul District commander, reported that he had initiated a survey of the river and of the dam site. Second, was the idea of the Grange really his? The desire to improve navigation on the upper river affected the river above the Twin Cities, as well. Historians generally agree that with the Civil War's end the federal government took a very different position on internal improvements. . He questioned the value of removing boulders, believing that the steep grade and rapid current required locks and dams. Ten sheets formed a continuous map of the river from St. Anthony Falls to the mouth of the St. Croix River. The Upper Mississippi, that is the Mississippi from its source to the mouth of the Missouri, drains 173,000 sq. Frederick J. Dobney, River Engineers of the Middle Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978), p. 33. . Midwesterners, however, needed to transform the river, if they hoped to make it a commercial thoroughfare. Some easterners came to take the fashionable tour. Arriving in St. Louis or at other railheads on the river's east bank, these excursionists traveled upstream, sometimes to St. Anthony Falls, imbibing the river's beauty (see the above references). . The Mississippi River is the second longest river in North America measuring a total length of 2320 miles from its traditional source at Lake Itasca. Lucile M. Kane, Rivalry for a River: the Twin Cities and the Mississippi, Minnesota History 37:8 (December 1961):309-23. This is a list of all current and notable former bridges or other crossings of the Upper Mississippi River which begins at the Mississippi River's source and extends to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois . 1850, Ferry Crossings (Platte to Malad Rivers) Ferry costs in 1850 from the Platte to the Malad Rivers. Despite the growing menace of the railroads, river traffic remained strong.38. In view of the hold which this method has taken upon the minds of river men, and the difficulties, uncertainty, and expense which attend the use of dams, Warren concluded, I have determined to recommend the employment of these dredging machines.37 In 1867 the Corps initiated a program of dredging sandbars, snagging, clearing overhanging trees and removing sunken vessels to create the 4-foot channel. Finally, and recognizing the emerging power of railroads, the state asserted that the river is now and ever will be and remain the great regulator and moderator of fares and freights among the rival carriers of the commerce of the west. Referring to the Civil War, the state implored Congress to recollect with what haste and facility the various railroad lines combined to increase the cost of travel, and double, and in some instances triple and quadruple, the cost of transporting the produce of the west during the late non-intercourse measures in the Lower Mississippi. The river would bind the country together again.77. The river passed over the closing dams when high, but for most of the year, the dams directed water into the main channel, denying flow to the river's side channels and backwaters (Figure 10). as part of a portfolio of multi-value projects approved by the midcontinent independent system operator, this river crossing is 1.56 miles (2.51 km) long, connects the maywood substation in missouri and the herleman substation in illinois, and is part of the illinois rivers transmission project 385 miles (620 km) of transmission from palmyra, As Anti-Monopoly parties threatened to undermine the Republican party's dominance in the state and nationally, Windom and other Republicans began working for railroad reform and began seeking ways to solve the farm crisis.54, As chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Transportation to the Seaboard, Windom was in an especially good position to help both farmers and his party. St. Paul and Minneapolis pushed especially hard. Playing on the desire of Minneapolis navigation boosters, they proposed building a lock and dam between the two cities to aid navigation and to secure the hydropower for themselves.71, Meeker, a territorial judge and local entrepreneur, and Morrison, a St. Anthony Falls sawmill operator, lobbied for and obtained permission from the Minnesota Territorial Legislature to build their lock and dam near Meeker Island. Mississippi was given title to more than three million acres of swamp and overflow land along its northwestern border with the Mississippi River. Below Red Wing, water from the reservoirs had little effect.68. Allied with them were sawmill operators and boom company operators William W. Eastman, John Martin, Sumner W. Farnham, James A. Lovejoy, and Joel B. Bassett. . In other words, Congress asked the Corps to determine how to establish a continuous, 4-foot channel for the upper river at low water. Two of the 1850's most significant corporate developments was the original New York Central Railroad's formation on May 17, 1853 and the Erie Railroad's completion in the spring of 1851. . A day earlier, the St. Paul Daily Dispatch had declared that the dam had given St. Paul a water power equal to St. Anthony, and would provide enough power to make St. Paul one of the largest manufacturing cities on the continent.81 Through a deal between Meeker and a number of St. Paul businessmen, St. Paulites had gained control of Meeker's company and would get the waterpower created by the dam, even if Minneapolis and the state thought it overshadowed by St. Anthony Falls.82, On March 6, 1869, the state awarded the land grant to the Mississippi River Improvement and Manufacturing Company. But it held little chance of success and was eventually abandoned. The Windom Committee Spurred by the Granger movement and navigation conventionspartly out of fear and partly out of a genuine concern to help farmers and businessesMinnesota Senator William Windom asked the Senate to establish a committee to examine the transportation problem and recommend solutions to it. George Byron Merrick, Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, Appendix B, Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862, (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987), p. 295. Cook completed his survey between 1866 and 1867 and, to Meeker's surprise, recommended that a lock and dam be constructed at Meeker Island, with a 13-foot lift.79 Cook's report and lobbying by Representative Donnelly and Senator Alexander Ramsey finally convinced Congress to give the State of Minnesota a 200,000-acre land grant to finance the dam, rather than having the Corps build it. Annual Report, 1881, p. 2746. 1491, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 704. Historical Features are physical or cultural features that are no longer visible on the landscape. Tornado warnings and bow echos were everywhere, but once it crossed the river, it immediately started weakening. From St. Anthony Falls to downtown St. Paul, some 15 river miles, the river falls more than 100 feet. Kane, St. Anthony, p. 96, points out that the state never transferred the grant to the company. This image pair shows the area around St. Louis, Missouri, in August 1991 and 1993. With river traffic failing and railroads monopolizing the regions transportation, many farmers and business interests believed they were facing a shipping crisis. The next day, Colonel Benjamin Grierson and 1,700 troopers started on a mounted raid through central Mississippi to destroy railroad tracks and mislead the Southerners. Doc. . Sherman advocated a withdrawal of the army to Memphis, where it could regroup and then move south. No. It did so twice that year. 2103-04; Annual Report, 1869, p. 237; Annual Report, 1901, p. 2309; Raymond H. Merritt, The Corps, the Environment, and the Upper Mississippi River Basin, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984), p. 1; Merritt, Creativity, pp. A movement into central Mississippi ended when Southern cavalrymen captured the Federals supply base at Holly Springs. Warren asked private companies and local interests what work they had done to improve the river's navigability. Another wave soon followed. From 1850 to 1870, it delivered supplies and furs on two-wheeled carts between St. Paul, Minnesota and the frontier. 58, Survey of Upper Mississippi River, p. 25. Extending navigation above St. Anthony Falls with the other two locks and dams would total $1,538,702.90. Why Congress authorized two low dams, instead of one high dam that could have generated hydropower, is unknown. Barns also argues that Kelley came away from his southern trip with the idea for the Grange, and that Kelley had a more radical organization in mind from the outset than Buck and other historians admit. . Carey's 1814 Map of Missouri Territory formally Louisiana. The Granger Movement As railroads spread throughout the upper Mississippi River valley and the Midwest, they began monopolizing the shipping of bulk commodities, especially grain. By 1907, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Hastings and other river cities, through their successful lobbying and through the Corps, had changed the upper Mississippi River dramatically. Alberta Kirchner Hill, Out With the Fleet, Minnesota History, (1961):286. It did, however, authorize the Corps of Engineers to survey the reach between Fort Snelling and St. Anthony Falls, along with its general survey of the upper Mississippi River. Pauluntil Congress did something about the rapids below St. Anthony Falls. A favorable landing site on the east bank would have to be located, while other operations would be necessary to distract the Confederates. St. Louis merchants were among the Mississippi River's greatest advocates. The first ferries crossing from Piggott's complex to St. Louis were pirogues, small boats similar to canoes, made from hollowed out logs. In its petition, the state stressed that boats had frequently landed within two and one-half miles of downtown Minneapolis, up until 1857. In 1854 the Minnesota Pioneer,a St. Paul newspaper, reported that passengers and freight overflowed from every steamboat that arrived and that the present tonnage on the river is by no means sufficient to handle one-half the business of the trade.3 While two steamboats often left St. Paul each day, they could not carry goods away as quickly as merchants and farmers deposited it, and many upper river cities mirrored St. Paul.4 Each steamboat that docked created new business and a greater backlog, as more immigrants disembarked to establish farms and businesses.5, Spurred by Indian land cessions that opened much of the Midwest between 1820 and 1860, by Iowa's statehood in 1846 and Wisconsin's in 1848 and by the creation of the Minnesota Territory in 1849, passenger traffic on the upper river boomed. Lock and Dam 2 (the Meeker Island Lock and Dam) could then be placed about 2.9 miles upstream, below Meeker Island, and would have a lift of 13.8 feet. Todd Shallat, Structures in the Stream, Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Egineers, (Austin: University of Texas, 1994), p. 141. His figures for arrivals differ slightly from those of Dixon in Table 2.1. The Engineers were to create a permanent, continuous navigation channel, 41/2-feet deep at low-water, for the entire river between St. Paul and the mouth of the Illinois River at Alton. Major General Ulysses S. Grant stood over maps searching for answers. Shortly after the glaciers withdrew from southern Minnesota some 10,000 years ago, St. Anthony Falls stretched across the river valley near downtown St. Paul. To achieve the 1/2- foot channel, the Corps had to expand upon the channel constriction experiments. Edward L. Pross, A History of Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Bills, 1866-1933, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1938, p. 44. Heretofore I have had nothing to do but fight the enemy. And in a speech before the Senate, he asserted that it was an admitted fact that present transportation facilities between the interior and the seaboard were totally inadequate. These transportation networks, he charged, were controlled by powerful monopolies who dictate their own terms to the people. At this point, Minneapolitans began fighting among themselves over the project.83, Millers feared a competing water power so close to St. Anthony Falls and believed that the project might jeopardize federal funding for repair work at the falls. We remotely tracked the early fall migratory movements of both juvenile and adult Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) that were tagged on their natal/breeding territories in southwestern Ontario, Canada, where the Motus Wildlife Tracking System has the highest density of automated . The Mississippi River gave birth to most cities along its banks, and those cities did all they could to ensure that the river would nurture their growth. From the quarterboats you could hear the big rocks hitting each other, like a rapid-fire rage. In early March, Grant wired General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck, I will have Vicksburg this month or fail in the attempt. He ordered operations on the Yazoo River and through Steeles Bayou, both of which ended in failure. The St. Paul businessmen included William E. McNair, Eugene M. Wilson, William S. King, Edward Murphy, and Isaac Atwater. Minneapolis had captured title to the head of navigation, but the low dams had eliminated St. Pauls hope for securing hydropower. it is destined to become the most popular region of the world, and its waters should forever be kept free and untrammelled and open to the use of every citizen within the entire navigable length, and all obstructions, whether natural or of human device, are like impediments to the prosperity of the people who till the soil of the great valley.". 92-93; Kane, Rivalry, pp. During the late summer or early fall, when the Mississippi usually became a shallow, slow-moving stream, the wing dams could not direct enough water down the channel to scour it. Note, the other route was down the Tennessee to the Ohio then down the Mississippi to the Natchez area. The 4-foot project did not greatly alter the river's physical or ecological character and did not improve the river much for navigation, but it initiated a series of navigation projects that would do both. To eliminate the problem, the Engineers closed the upper end of the east channel. Rafting companies and steamboat interests had employed wing dams to scour the channel at troublesome bars. Mackenzie added that the Corps would have to build a third lock and dam with a 10.1-foot lift to bring navigation to St. Anthony Falls and a fourth lock to bring navigation above it. Sherman once said, Grant is brave, honest, & true, but not a Genius.. On the early part of the journey, before they reached the Mississippi river, they bought four oxen trying to find a pair that was matched and would work together on the long haul to Oregon. Support for the project came from the company's stockholders, navigation boosters and city business leaders. By the time it got to Collierville (20 miles east of Memphis), there were no warnings or watches. 17 Oct 1872 BUTLER, Thomas *15: BRAKEMAN, Harriet (1835-1866): m'd 05 Jul 1852 WADSWORTH, Elisha . Location: Illinois, United States. But, as a result of the economic panic beginning that year, a number of unprecedented droughts and the Civil War, navigation, they brashly claimed, had receded some sixteen miles, to St. Paul, where all the freight destined to these cities, (Minneapolis and St. Anthony) and the vast regions north and west . The Mississippi River touches 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and is one of the largest rivers in the world. Westward expansion in the 1850s punctuated the need for a transcontinental railroad. The Twin Cities had to see that the entire Mississippi River was remade. To do this, they would have to change the Mississippi's landscape and environment. Shermans troops, meanwhile, demonstrated against the citys northern defenses. branch, . Despite the frustrations and controversies, he had assured his wife: Vicksburg will be a hard job. Many just mention herds of Government cattle, but one, for 305 head in June of 1863, specifically mentions Texas cattle. Throughout his article (pp. Donald B. Dodd and Wynelle S. Dodd, Historical Statistics of the United States, 1790-1970. In St. Louis, the Mississippi remained above flood stage for 144 days between April 1 and September 30, 1993. Islands created dangerous currents.13 From just below Hastings to St. Anthony Falls roughly 40 islands broke the rivers flow. , . In 1855, the St. Anthony Express proposed building two locks and dams. One dam would be blown up within 5 years of its completion and another would have to be redesigned and the completed part rebuilt. . While mining Fold3 today, I ran across the Citizens Records of John McKay. St. Paul District records, St. Paul, Minnesota. Wings should be pointed upstream at the following angles: 105N to 110N, in straight reaches, 100N to 102N in concave, 90N to 100N in convex, and they should be so located where practicable, that their axes prolonged would meet in the center of the channel. A wave would start at the head of the reach and begin moving down, even when the current slowed. William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, (New York:W. W. Norton & Company, 1991), p. 296, says that the first railroad to reach the Mississippi River was the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis in 1852-53. Twenty-seven river miles downstream, at Hastings, they recorded a rise of about one foot and at Red Wing about one-half foot. The earliest type of ferry to operate on the Mississippi River was the canoe. This will then be shared on a discussion board with . Frederic Paxson, American Frontier, 1763-1893, (Chicago: The Riverside Press, 1924), p. 517. 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