Show an original scheme J S n besselman ves selman on the great lakes has presented a scheme by which the waters of the great inland beas will be prevented from continuing to lover as they are reported to bs doing his plan is a very simple one in the niagara river below tonawanda where navigation ends he would dump many thousand boat loads of large stones it might be that some steel structure could also b extended into the river from each side to narrow the channel the result would be to lesson the flow of water from the lakes and thereby increase the stage f water at all points the proposed dam would be comparatively inexpensive tho aneson is largely an engineering one toronto globe |