Argument For The Complainant In The Case Of The State Of Pennsylvania Vs The Wheeling And Belmont Bridge Company In Support Of The Commissioners

Excerpt from Argument for the Complainant, in the Case of the State of Pennsylvania, Vs. The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company, in Support of the Commissioner's Report Upon the Necessity and Utility of the Steam Packet Chimneys Now Used on the Ohio River: In Reply to Mr. Russell The commissioner to whom this case was referred, having reported in favor of the utility of high chimneys as a mode of procuring the furnace draft required by steam boats navigating the Ohio river, it is intended in this argument briefly to set forth a few considerations in support of his views on that question, in reply to an argument on file controverting the positions taken by the commissioner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.