Show ia lagaras garas edge may div need nee patching up horseshoe falls in danger of becoming merely a spillway washington vi hen the all fall of a huge piece of rock threatened to turn the honeymooners horseshoe falls of magara niagara into a mere spill spillway vieT the peril to the falls beauty brought br ought forth proposals to hire entine engineers ers to patch up north america a outstanding nat ural umi wonder onder by dropping a keystone kc ke istone out of its it horseshoe arch magara niagara wag was merely performing its dut dua to the pea ages lor I or icara ears the falls has been the geological hour glasa glass for much of north kni trica ily reading rca ling the record of the rocks that go through the neck of the gorge as its grains ot sand slip through the hour glass scientists stopwatch the lie glacier sheets which were a ere the first to furrow the fer tile bild midwest gillest in the sermons of the cataract a 9 stones lie ile the chronology of lake algonquin the predecessor of lakes superior Bli chlian and huron and of lake iroquois the sprawling progenitor of lake ontario their dates are tied flied almost as accurately as history books report Nl iliam the con ardeal in england in 1060 A aero across the neck the story that Is 13 told by magara niagara which Is 0 17 per cent canadian Is related in to the following bulletin by the national geographic society niagara Is the north american champion in one of the greatest bat ties nature eer umpired literally scores of challengers sought her crown croin more than once magara niagara fell almost lizele lifeless ro on her rocks dut but finally the seekers tor for her crown gave up be the lat last not many more centuries ago than the days of tut ankh amen melgara Is eald said to take lake its name from the indian title nee aggarao which appropriately mean means across the neck the magara niagara river cute cuts across the neck of land separating lake erie eris and lake ontario just east of buffalo the aler collect collects the entire natural discharge of the four upper great lake lakes rushes it through a narrowing a river for 10 16 miles pushes it over a sheer drop of feet ft churn churns it miles through a canyon and then carries it gently by seven mile miles of lowland louland to lake ontario our niagara aa aas born when the glaciers melted back ex rosing the ridge the water now tumbles down like the glaciers of the Ilo Ito ckles thee these enormous sheets of ice fee moving down from labrador poured out streams of water these stream streams collected ages ago at the foot of the huge ice lobes in depressions extending into ohio indiana and illinois accumulated water sometime sometimes acle hundred hundreds of feet higher than the present level of the great lake lakes and poured out into the mississippi over the present site alto of chicago and through outlets in ohio and indiana finally as a the let ice melted northward prehistoric lake tonawanda forme ma on the edge 0 the plateau over wb which magara niagara pour pours there were then ne five outlets from this tills lake at holley sie lie dina gasport casport Ga sport lockport and delston Lel ston the spillway at lewiston alaga ra won vion out lockport gorge now contains a flight of steps tep for the new w york baw barge canal early Nia garas Nu numerous marcUL about the time niagara was begin ning ding to triumph the melting glacier moved back to lake Slin simcoe cot ontario the fickle water waters of the upper lake lakes lost little time in finding the trent valley a ragged eerie series of lakes and rivers leading into lake ontario trent valley miley gorge gorges tell of many early magara at that time only 15 13 per cent of the presen flow went over niagara forming th the narrow lower corge gorge not nature it e came to the rescue cue tipping a grealer great block of land ever so 10 slightly but enough to but shut oft off the trent faucet and make even more water go over magara niagara than the spectator ke today nut but the chicago outlet predecessor of tile drainage canal again cut down the how flow the 11 biri poo pool I 1 was wa made at ibis hi time once again magan wa was flouted floated when the outlet shifted to north ley bay ontario fending sending the water waters down doam the ottawa taws over the portage which dam plain W wa as to take to discover lake huron the upper i arrow larrow gorge wa was then carved but gain again llie the huge rock which his ha the be great lake lakes pud pod dies in the bottom tipped lipped leaving NI triumphant triumph aziL niagara started io 10 split over tb the bank at Lew lewiston liton about year years ago in soo it has ha shoveled hove led d ILI way may se eevea ven at its it present rate of excavation more than four feet annu aUy niagara will dig back the remaining 10 16 mile miles to lake take erie about the year A 1 D mii before this hine however man MAY take a band hand to the famous horst at ance ce the peril shae u falls by be the recent erdelon ero elon ha has brought forth the suggest 1012 ft of rein forcing the HP lip of 0 the fall falls ja |