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Title: Papers in Illinois history and transactions
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Illinois State Historical Society. 1n Illinois State Historical Society. Transactions. 1n
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Publisher: Springfield
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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the new channel of the Mississippi River would have run into the millions. Asthe real work of the Mississippi River Commission is to care for the interests of navigation, we are leftto conclude that the reason why Congress did not undertake the control of the mighty river was becauseit could not be satisfied that it was the duty of the United States Government to protect the djang oldtown of Kaskaskia and two thousand acres of land owned by private individuals. 11 The Mississippi flows all of the way from Alton to a short distance above old Kaskaskia withouttouching anywhere on the Illinois shore the rock bottom of its great valley. In many places on theMissouri side the rock actually comes to the surface, and is washed and worn by the river. Just belowthe point where it broke thru into the Okaw the current strikes rock at the foot of the great rockbluir, and of course the channel must widen itself entirely ou the Kaskaskia side where the rock was veryfar beneath the bed of the river.
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Mississippi ana KasliasUia Rivers. April IS. ISSl, 103 in 1818. The brick of this building were brought from Pittsburg in1803. I understand there is a picture of this building in the rooms ofthe Illinois State Historical Society in Springfield, Illinois. When the Mississippi Eiver had changed its course below St. Gene-vieve, and had come within a short distance of the Okaw (Kaskaskia)Eiver, at a point from one and one-half to two miles above Kaskaskia,about the fall of 1879, we all believed there would be danger at the nexthigh water of the Mississippi breaking through into the Okaw, andthus damaging the town. It was at this time within half a mile ofthe Okaw, and when the high water came, in April, 1881, we wereexceedingly anxious as to what might happen. The distance acrossfrom.river to river was barely 400 feet in April, 1881. The Missis-sippi Elver began to run across this narrow neck of land about April21, 1881. At first the water ran over the surface, which was loose soil andsan

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