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' IV I ft K J': The Dalles Daily Chronicle, The only Republican Daily Xcictpapei Wasco County. 'EASTJiRN OFFICE Court, N. Y. City. -2.10 to '2.V, Temple E. AM 7 Agent. SAT UK DAY, MAY 1, 1S07 THE RESEIIYOIR SYSTEM. Colonel Charles Kllett, a distin guished American engineer, suggests that instead of levees along the Miss issippi, a series of storage reservoirs lie provided by damming the tributa ries of that stream. This would not only provide against excessive Hoods, but would, by discharging the sur plus water during periods of drouth, prove of inestimable benefit. The theory is a good one, but tiie question of its practicability is a different matter. It hardly seems possible that natural reservoirs can lie found : that is, places where quan tities of water that would materially affect such a Hood as lias poured down the Mississippi could be held. "When one considers the amount of water that would have to be held in check to decrease the rise in the Mississippi even by one foot, the amount of reservoir space required seems clearly unattainable. Such reservoirs must necessarily by large ly natural, such as lakes that can be dammed at their outlets. Otherwise the reservoirs would in Hood time become sources of additional danger. But does sued a lake area exist? "We think not. Our own grand Columbia furnishes a notable example in this line, and were it not that Nalure has provided the most magnificent reservoir sys tem for it, there would be no living anywhere within 300 feet of lov water mark. The Hoods of the Col umbia are for this reason of steady rise and fall, extending through two or three mouths time. And yet. in spite of this protection, unusual cir cumstances, such as we had in 1S94, when after a winter of seyere snows came continuous and unusually warm weather, the Hood went sweeping up ten feet higher than ever before kno.vn. "Where it would have gone without Nature's grand reservoir system, no one could even hazard a guess. The Spokane river then swept everything before it, yet to its source the distance was less than 200 miles, and the Cauir d'Alene lake, at low water thirty miles by fifteen, and at high water double that area, had to be filled by the rush of waters from the Ca'ur d'Alene and St. Joe rivers, while the Spokane was stead ily curving off the Hoed. The Mis soula sent its Hood down the same year, but before it passed into the Kootenai it had to fill lake Pend O'rcille, sixty miles long and twenty broad. So with the Columbia itself in the Kootenai and .Little Arrow how lakes, where an inland sea was created by that Hood which could only drain off slowly. Every tributary of the Columbia is provided with such storage reser voirs as could never bo hoped for on the tributaries of the Mississippi, and yet were the lands along its banks as low as those along the Mississippi, the damage would be as great, or greater, for the reason that without the rcservoiis the Hoods would be ex pected, while with them other pre cautions would have to be taken. Jt is hard to get an idea of the amount of water carried b' a stream ' under Hood conditions, but to give , an idea of the reservoir that would lie required to control the surplus j waters of the Columbia, let alone , those of tho Mississippi, wo can make a crude, yet not exaggerated, esti mate. Most of us have been down the river to the Cascades and under stand what a body of water it is. Yet tho extia amount of water car ried by tho Columbia at its high stage would, if the bed of the Colum bia were dry, fill the channel the en tire distance in four hours. In other words, it would take a lake forty miles long, ten miles wide and twenty feet deep to hold the surplus for twenty-four hours. Some things arc too large to he controlled, and the Mississippi seems to be one of them. Those who expected the Dingloy tariff bill was to be allowed to slip' through the senate without opposi tion by the white-metal people were badly mistaken. Tin: Ciiuonicm: pointed out some time ago that the most dangerous opposition the bill was likely to meet was from the old source of senatorial tie-ups, the free silverites. Th.it opposition has de veloped. Senator Jones, who holds the balance of power, has joined hands with the Democrats of the finance committee in objecting to reporting the bill as framed direct to the senate. -The Republicans arc, of course, disappointed, and President McKinlev keenly so. The chances arc now that the bill will not reach the president before August, and then tho brands and ear-marks on it will prevent its author from recog nizing it. Mr. Jones may not be as picturesque as Mr. Gorman, but he will prove as great a thoin iu the side of President McKinley as the gentleman from Maryland did in Cleveland's case. v fever ELY'S CREAM BALM Is aponltlvecuro. Apply Into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 60 cents at Druireista or by mail ; samples 10c. by mail. ELY BROTHERS. 6G Warren St., New York City. NOTICE. The partnership heretofore existing in Tych Vulley Flouring Mill-, under the name of V. M. McCorkle & Son, is 1 1 is dav dissolved hv limitation, J. M. Mc Corkle retiring." W. M. McCorklo will continue, and will pay all legal claims and collect all debt? of the late firm. Tvgh, Or.. April 2, 1S97. W. 31. McCohkm:, a7-lm J. K. McUoukle. Tom McCoy has opened his neiv barber shop opposite the Clarenden restaurant on Second street. m4-lm Garden flose W e are agents, for the celebrated MALTESE CROSS. Every body knows that it is the best Hose on the mar ket today. Wo also carry the liidge wood brand of Hose, which wo reconimond as a superior article second onty to our Mal tese Uros brand in quality. It1 is made on extra strong duck, and oi the best rubber. Then we carry the Wallabout brand which is a good quality and medium price, equal or better than the average so-called "best Hose on the market." We sell it for what it really is a good, serviceable J-Ioso. See our stock before buying elsewhere. BICYCLE REPAIRING. We have secured the services of Mr. Joseph EirchofF, who has been doing Bicycle Repair ing and Gun Work for the last five years in Tho Dalles. All work entrusted to him will receive prompt atten tion. MAIER& BENTON'S g A. I). OU!tI,KY. ' Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ARLINGTON. OREGON. 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