Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 33
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, September 14, 1907
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To Secure Site for Three Dams.
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Waco, Texas, Sept. 10.--Mayor James B. Baker and two or three others will today
go to Bryan to see about a site for a lock and a dam on the Brazos, and two
other sites will be secured within a short time, one opposite Marlin and the
other a short distance below Waco. An effort will then be made at the
meeting of congress, to secure an appropriation sufficient to construct these
improvements and thus afford four months' navigation annually, filling in with
two or three other locks and dams later, giving eight months' navigation
annually. There is great enthusiasm here on the subject and it is thought
that the project to secure immediate navigation for four months, up to Waco,
will succeed.
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