Excerpt from The Past, Present and Future of the City of Cairo, in North America: With Reports, Estimates and Statistics

Your Committee urged the necessity of an immediate restoration and strengthening of the portions which had been carried away, or weakened, or lowered, by the late flood of June 12th; and called the attention of the Presi dent to the liabilities of the Railroad Company under those agreements, and to the remonstrances of the General Agent, S. S. Taylor, and the Trustees, year after year, upon the subject; and they have the pleasure of adding that their claims were acknowledged, and their suggestions dealt with fairly: the President pledging himself that immediate meas ures should be taken for a thorough restoration and repair of the embankments referred to, and for enlarging and strengthening the levees, all which may be seen by the docu ments and papers herewith submitted, and marked A, and by the correspondence annexed, between the Trustees of the Cairo City Property, through whom your committee deemed it proper to act, and the President of the 111. Cen tral Railroad Company.

These letters and answers bear date on the 13th, 15th and 22nd of July last. But your Committee would call your attention to an earlier letter on the same subject from Mr. S. Staats Taylor, dated Oct. 13, 1857, and marked B, showing the seasonable, and as it now appears, well-ground ed apprehensions of your Agent at Cairo.

During the interview with Mr. Osborn, which grew out of the foregoing correspondence, your committee suggested, in addition to the repairs, and general strengthening of the embankments, damaged and weakened, or wholly carried away, by the late flood of June 12th, that they should be raised two feet higher than the grade, before settling; and that they should be twenty feet wide on the top, with a mpe on each Side of one foot perpendicular, to five or even four feet horizontal, giving a base of from one hundred, to one hundred and twenty feet, as recommended in the letterof July 2zud, from Mr. S. Staats Taylor to Charles Davis, Esquire, Trustee, hereunto annexed, and marked 0.

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