摘要: |
TEN YEARS AGO, while con-traetor Newt Marine worked to remove rock "pinnacles" from the middle Mississippi River, the Corps released water from Lake Carlyle to help keep barge traffic moving during historic low water; and the former mv. Jeffboat, which later became a floating restaurant, was destroyed in a fire at Warsaw, 111. TWENTY YEARS AGO, the 180-year-old Justine Plantation House was barged 240 miles to Mandeville, La.; and Kirby Corporation bought 48 barges and seven towboats from SeaRiver Maritime Inc. for $35.4 million in cash. THIRTY YEARS AGO, Bis so Marine Company Inc. won a contract to cut up and remove a sunken sulfur barge blocking the Houston Ship Channel; and the Corps of Engineers said it would spend half a million dollars to study building a new lock and dam south of St. Louis. FORTY YEARS AGO, barg-es carried a 111,600-gallon steel beechwood chip tank to An-heuser-Busch's Houston brewery; and the Coast Guard continued its search for the sunken T.L. Herbert at Mile 661 on the Mississippi River. |