| Show BEAVERS VERS BUILD GREAT DAM Engineering Feat t Stopped the tho Flow of the tho Yakima River and Led to Investigation A Jar lar large e number lumber of beavers have executed an extraordinary engineerIng engineer engineer- I big Ing g feat in the Cascade mountains 40 m miles les from here by building u a dam dan 12 feet high and over a quarter of ii li mile In length according to deputy dep det uty lity game wardens who haTe hare been seeking the cause of a reduced flow now of water In Yakima river says saya nn an Ellensburg Ellensburg Ellens Ellens- burg Wash 1 to the New Ne NewYork ew York ork World Seven beaver houses houss at the center of the dam dum are ale of elephantine proportions pro portions one Is 15 feet high and 30 feet across at the bottom They are unusually spacious SIt for beaver homes homos but according to Indians were made so tall tull because of noo floods s which were sure to come in the spring flow Evidently Evit Evi Evi- By- By t dently the beavers were looking for forthe forthe forthe the long col cold winter winter beIng being experienced exper In in inthe the as Northwest Northwest-as as large quantities of green gleen woo wood for fo todd food id were found in or near the houses In h building the great gleat dam the In In- Ing Ingenuity g of the most Intelligent o of the animals was taxed for logs over a afoot afoot afoot foot thick were ele carefully balanced between be be- tween two large rocks for for- forthe the middle I 01 or point of greatest pressure of the structure e. Not Kot much water was held In by this log Jot rock lock wall vahl but lu In fre freshet season season season sea sea- son two months hence an enormous amount would be he impounded So great a menace did this huge dam darn present that the state commissioner of game gave the tho district game warden warden war ivan den permission to tu destroy the col col- col- col ony Over beavers of all nil sizes were ere trapped and the pelts sold at auction Under tinder the protective laws Jaws beaver In all nU parts partE of ot the Northwest multiply rapidly their dams often disturbing the proper flow of water feeding Irrigation irrigation Ir ir- canals |
