Show Flood sami csc thirty years ago charles kloct civil engineer published a largo octavo volumn upon alio llio hoods of tho ohio annl mississippi iu which he advocated a system of reservoirs for holding lack tho water of those anil securing a depth throughout alio llio year anil lie clial in a loir years aliis bo adopted that is dudio lio that ground and valueless will bo tilled aud sandbars will ac permanently covered solid will bo built as wharves arc by r on the lakes alio lower streets of river lown will acquire boyr the ohio Iio iiri and mississippi will lie made to flow with a constant deep and limpid stream alio ice will lo 10 swept off ns it forma and cold nor droughts will seriously acet alio real difficulty so far lie continues 13 to overcome alio cold incredulity of the public so as to obtain from congress a apin toe the completion of the birst two reservoirs thia effected nd a amlo practical cinadr il will lc as convince ho future engineer that 1 tiling in clear ami pil pablo cougil over lican doubted as it was to all doubts in the birst place more money lias been laid out on emilei ol 01 railroad rail roid alian would bo needed to main tain alio llio waters of alio llio ohio within lac feet of a uniform height throughout th year the rain gaupp lio bays will in dicato the approaching danger from alic summits of the distant the telegraph will the fact at alio hood gates and alio aholo may alius be controlled bytho provisions of science in lica alio contemplated calt ct can be produced by n few dams in aliu mountain gorges and llie constant attention of some twenty men all thit is left for alio and of man to accomplish in perfecting the navigation is to build a walls across of alio tributary streams and leold back a portion of the surplus water in the lakes eliat aru ali cad formed and then provide common sluice gate to emit taftt into the it is needed wo should need but four dams less than sixty feet to se cure the valley of the upper ohio against all destructive hood i cip ible of insuring a perpetual navigation for boits of live feet draft the cot of the four dains is estimated at and certainly not morn than rendering miles of the river permanently available it this be anything like alio actual cot co t such a work ind if alio llio scheme id nn one it is ridiculous not to set about it nt tho amount will bo given in clin rily abony tins icar to liefa the victims of hoobs when alio losses of property destroyed outright and alio llio loss to business by several anys suspension and from low water during the summer droughts tic con sidor cd is a lucre bagatelle of ohio and kentucky alono could well ill to spend that amount for the protection of own congress away teu hat amount lor useless projects corporations spend alko sums on a bridga or a railway station it is pricing that thi scheme attracted so attention even from alio llio people who sull cr alio cali it is intend cil to prevent detroit rust auml tribune |