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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.
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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,
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air and water tight.
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Mr. Comini has on hand a largo sup
ply ot first-class Marble, to bo used in
iuu.nimems, etc. L'nces lower than in
Portland.
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Itev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont.,
recommended Elv's Cream Balm to me I
can einphaslzo his statement, "Itisapoai.
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