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Show Controlling the Mississippi. Regarding some method for mitigating mitigat-ing the Mississippi river floods, the Scientific American says: "The present pres-ent outbreak of the river will serve to direct attention to a proposed method meth-od of control which we are inclined to think will prove to be the ultimate solution so-lution of the problem. We refer to the plan of providing storage reservoirs in the upper reaches of the river, in which the flood waters due to spring rains and the melting of the snows, could be impounded, to be released In a dry season for the purpose of maintaining main-taining the river at a navigable depth." |