OCR Text |
Show ITER BODIES -v ; If) WHS a - -y j In northern Minnesota there fa a great area of. land soJlat that Its waters wa-ters sometimes flow, Into Hudson, Day and sometimes into the Gulf of Mexico. Mexi-co. vThere are times when certain lakes discharge at both ends, tho northern .outlet .carrying water thru Red River or Rainy River to Lake Winnipeg and thence to Hudson Bay while the southern outlet carries water wa-ter to the Mississippi.. . The United States Geological Surrey Sur-rey has Just published a report (Wa-v ter Supply-Paper 325) containing-tho results of xlver flow measurements mado during tho year of 1912 In tho Hudson Bay aud upper Mississippi River basins. Becauso tho dividing lino between the Mississippi River drainage basin and that of Hudson Bay Is' indefinite and in many places can not be determined, tho consideration considera-tion of theso two basins in connection connec-tion with their water supplies and tho uses that can be mado of this resource re-source must logically be taken up together. , j The steam gaging work carried, on by the' Geological Survey in-Minneio- k and Illinois was' performed' In 'cooperation 'co-operation with these states. The, Westernmost stream, covered by the report U St. Mary. River, wblfeh rises in Montana, crosses the Cafei dian boundary, and empties Into 'tile Saskatchewan . The- other rivers'are largely those, of North Dakota, Mln; ncsota, and Wisconsin, although the report contains considerable information informa-tion concerning the rivers ,o'f, -Illinois and Iowa, which empty into the Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. A copy of Water Supply Paper 325 may be obtained tree on application to the Director of the Geological Survey, Sur-vey, Washington, D. C. |