Show CHECKING THE FLOODS WO 0 aro are spending hulands ot of roll huna buns of dollars upon it wo spent an equart pilim 0 or des VIP upon on r internal walcia under A a system all plan of atlon we would make vitual laports of sioux city oni tha minneapolis MInne st I 1 ai dili and achl firo avo would BUM aim all the ito lerm tind and 1 rail limul which ii A wirden th tb grain biln of the west binl i the lie iron of f would i nc n for gunboat of con merable atit t to linsten to points i ml ark m l t ow in the int friot of ii country iiii to dolend with equal I 1 c cp co the alie of the groat lakes akes I nl n those of tie ho gulf and in the ni we have not from tolls li bt 1 from froin the products byproducts by of the in lii arv a net lotura of than uie the 1 0 capital evets year to nation oto and ahm hus writes john L i mathews Mat hows in an interesting article artl lp entitled the itald 00 in the current IR I R of magazine Maga alne when we benine to the mississippi the author it wan in an ex ca client t ti he thus thug Imo improved roved at it due if f 01 t civil war when our i 1 acari aill 11 arm arin engineers B turned to th the e i ioor r and an attack upon the i oral erml to navigation in 1 tripled bel the ho whole agraam was waa lit 11 si a late would have mile its i 11 floto bonfa i aaion had dad that then i r 11 P nn an eay easy task there it k bout about its sources immense tor ter ts 4 f white and norway pins pine the L ii I 1 att t in the th world these theae forest a nth is coll horvatt ve ly cut would have t n lili as much lumner as ae we h hi I had fran them would still beli 1 az K it i the and would til maintain their proper function as aa i i the flow of water into the eitam instead wo we hryb hav Abena iena ted vat the entire tract and it has alten pen cut bare by the woodsman in waste and then swat ewt by tire HP leading not eien een the aa but bt enly banay barren barr cn from dhigh the ruphes mell into inta the streams tt eRms with heava erosion es 61 tho the ground while the forests were being swi pt away we have labored to contract tho the eh channel annel we have guht all along ato the banks backs below calro im Imin ivese enso earthen lenos len os to restrain the uw overflow which should bo be re strained at headquarters and ana wo time nac left the stream to tear its banks as it will the levees makeshifts and are not safe in 1903 there passed a mighty record flood through the val 1 the ohio reached sixty five feet above hove low water at cincinnati one on in million tIllon feet a second of water that thai neair power and summer navigation vda vAx vaxton iod tod carrying destruction to all the cities of the valley ard the fhe crisis camo came at hol hoi I 1 elih 10 w ani and opposite Al emphis TI v I 1 11 av av thi with bunac r v norn ao ana plenty leuty of ma tonal fought the overtopping over topping wave r it t rose actually higher than the levee jat still they piled on bags of sand until at last human endurance gave fin in a night the river triumphed for half a mile it rose above the high i M t rp reinforcement In spilled over ate away the crown and in a twinkling had bad swept into nothing that halt half mile of lei lefe e leaving a gap through which doured 1 ared a deluge the roar of which could con id be heard beard miles away five fandrei han drei miles of rich farming land wont went under water A Bea seasons sons crops T tere ere ruined 1 1 many lany villages as were out and throughout the whole twenty nine thousand miles of pro land the price of every aero acre went ent down from tho the consequent loss cf c f faith in earthen walls during daring the tame same flood a crayfish ate through a levee near now new orleans ana the water followed and destroyed tho the wall one million dollars failed to lo top tho the crevasse cro vasse and two million eardly measured its cost in actual damage da mage there are two ways way by which con can ca top stop all this the right vay my and the wrong way and the probability in I 1 that we roust must try them both since ince the right way takes so long to earry carry out the right way I 1 have al reedy explained it to lg to reservoir tho the earris which make the river when there will be no hoods floods which will rise above the banks and also to control the channel by canalization regularization revetment work etc but the wrong way la Is a good way algo aleo once it will prevent crayfish oray flah holes avoid slumping clumping slum ping ott off tit nt th the eback back a great fault of levees and absolutely prevent such cre crevasses creva oe as at holly bunh and this is to put in all the one thousand four hundred miles of wall a concrete six or eight inches thick this work would proba bly cont coat SIX alx lx million dollars bollara for the valleys vailey but it would raise the value of the tonda lands many that amount 6 tid iid it would earn its if cot cost many times over in ID niety safety and in increased crops before the resen relm wore 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