| Show f ft r GEOLOGICAL GEOLOGIC SURVEY I j I PUBLISHES REPORT The fhe United States Geological Survey Survey Sur Sur- vey 0 has just jUit published a report containing containing containing con con- the results of river flow me measurements measurements meas meas- s. s made during the year 1911 in tho the Hudson Ba Bay and aud upper Mississippi Mississippi I ippi river basins Because the dividing divid divid- dividing in ing lino line between the l Mississippi pi river drainage basin baMin and that of ot Hudson Ea Bay is indefinite and in m many n places can not be determined the consider consideration consideration of these two basins in connection ti tion n with their water supplies and the uses that can be made of this resource must logically bo be taken up together In fact in nor northern hern Minnesota 1 there thero is a g great geat eat area area of of land so fiat flat that its waters sometimes flow into the tho Hudson Hudson Hudson Hud Hud- son Bay and nd sometimes into the Gulf of Mexico There are times when cert certain il lakes discharge at both ends end tho the northern outlet taking the flow through Red ed River or Rainy River into Lake Winnipeg Winnipeg and and thence into Hudson son B Bay y while the southern outlet outlet out out- let leads to the MI Mississippi The stream work carried on onby onby by tho the G Geological Survey in Minnesota l ta au and Illinois was as performed in cooperation cooperation cooperation coop coop- with these thes states The westernmost river covered by bythe bythe bythe the report is Sc St Mary river which rises in l Montana na crosses the Canadian an b boundary and empties into the Saskatchewan The other riv rivers rs ar are largely those of North Dakota Min tin and Wisconsin although considerable consider considerable con con- sider ble information 13 is contained eon con concerning the rivers rivers of Illinois and androw row rot a which empty into the Ip ippi t |
