ABSTRACT
What improvements are required in our rivers? In the first place the navigable rivers are subject to floods, and we seek to prevent the overflow by constructing levees…. Another character of improvement is the dredging of the rivers for the purpose of meeting the period of drought in the summer when the rivers are low and when bars and shallows obstruct navigation [I]t is contended that by storing the flood waters in the mountains regions, caused by the rapid melting of the snows in the spring, a large proportion of the flood in the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers can be prevented and a more equal and sustained flow of the rivers thus promoted.
