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Missouri River Leviathans
| 题名： | Missouri River Leviathans |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | CAPT. DAVID SMITH |
| 摘要： | Fire-breathing behemoths once roamed the Missouri River. No, this isn't in reference to prehistoric or mythical creatures, but rather the four large dredges built by the U.S. Engineer Department to initiate and then maintain navigation on the Missouri River. These dredges might not have seemed so large on a wider waterway, but on the narrow, winding courses of the Missouri, at nearly 270 by 85 feet (not counting attendant floats and pipelines) they appeared to be true leviathans. The government had been focused on opening the Missouri to modern navigation since the formation of the Inland Waterways Corporation, the government-owned barge line designed to revitalize river transportation. This appeared to be coming to fruition in mid-1932 with Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley announcing that an official navigation opening was expected to happen in June, highlighted with an inspection trip from St. Louis to Kansas City that he would attend himself. The May 14, 1932, issue of The Waterways Journal featured a story on page three that was headlined "7,000 On The Missouri - Huge Army Preparing Channel for Start of Navigation June 21." The piece indicated that 5.000 men were working under 34 contractors between Hermann and St. Joseph, Mo., building dikes and channel structures, with some 2,000 more working on War Department boats. "At dozens of places, piledrivers on boats pound away through the nights under the glare of electric lights. All day long men weave, weight and sink the mats that protect the basis of the driven piles and the newly shaped banks." The article indicated that the work was scouring out the channel as the engineers had planned, and that "It is making a 'new' Missouri River." |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 136 |
| 期： | 22 |
| 页码： | 14,13 |
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