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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Document No. 1469 from the House of Representatives, 63d Congress, 3d Session. Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, December 31, 1914, and ordered to be printed with illustration (map). Full title: Brazos River, Mouth to Freeport, Tex. Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting, with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers, Reports on Preliminary Examination and Survey of Mouth of Brazos River up to Freeport, Tex., with a View to Securing a Depth of 25 Feet. Submitted for transmission to Congress are reports dated September 20, 1913 and July 23, 1914 along with a fold-out map. Reports and map are bound in white card stock with a paper label on the front cover. Included in this document are letters from interested businessmen, such as W.T. Eldridge, president of Sugarland Refining Co., who urges the government to provide proper facilities at the mouth of the Brazos River to facilitate importation of Sugar Land Feed Co.'s blackstrap molasses, an important byproduct from Imperial Sugar Company's sugar refining to be used in the manufacture of feedstuffs.