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MAGAZINE SECTION F | FICTION | }]g %unflag %i&f FEATURES Part 4—6 Pages WASHINGTON, D. €. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 6. 1921 When an Inland Sea Rolls Over Famous Playgrounds Along the Potomac PROPOSED Dam for Production of Light, Heat and Power Will Result in Cov- ering Rock Gardens With Water, While Many New Beauties Along Historic | Stream Will Be Created—Scenic Attractions of the Potomac Between Little and i Great Falls—A Sightseeing’ Trip of Hundreds of Years From Now—Submarine roin frail bot jthat ri turdy little project and ihe general features of | Boats and Vessels With Glass Bottoms—Status of the,Change. and Various Reports i . Submitted to Congress. L e Brave “blades” and lassies of | : " = - twaier supply <o now he made .nm—mi | iships propelled by hand, and which 'that pian {ihey called “canoes.” for the lan- at pla |uage of the Indiuns was still Spoken Pofomss Eisers ueRgle.on. e BOFHIER {0 some extent by the prople who ars Tine of the Distriet of (olumbia and {lived here then. In some of the very ¢ ane-tiird of @ m the Cliain bridge. Lold beoks which one will find in t i @) The e £ power by utilizing | Waushington Public Library—not the & e ithe trapsmiission and fittle marble building which used to b | stand in that ancient pari of (he city | o supnis. e vonp leatian Mownt Vernon Semares hut. tns . w il whiclh covers four | Blocks and rises <taries on thar Dalecurii et o ni : lant at the McMillan Park resersoir, catled Hili—well, you | e i find 1 ne : The plan_comprehended tha mongz the roc 3 g feet at and i tion of tentative the hottom flowers hecame ind our wis are not abl them, honor of the great who planned and di- construction of the Wash- ireat Falls to Lak Army enc rected the ington aqueduct from | i | om tie pool forme ‘ 1 i | 1 i i to translate the plants that grew ahout the olden city i hen Great FFalls, Occoquan, Piscata- urel and 2 e wers | urbs. he peonle of the iittle old city {used to come here among the rocks ! fand meadows and woo )W @ hun- tdred feet dow in wilery dept land gather these fowers | “add {this it The upper end of that | “beech fake wounld be in the gorge below | “bloodroot.” Great Falls. The followins para- | | Lercups” mbine.” graph is taken from that old report: th Dutehman’s | The elesation of the waler surface of th | wild geraniun Inke which would be created by the high dan | “hepatic posed is 115 feet above low water of the { slipper, “menk ! river. just above Chain bridge. The etien. rag e i il at low stages from the water sur i = i face above Great Falls to the point at which the dam is to be placed is approximatels 17 feet. 1f that head were con within A slort distance of Great Falix, the construc tion of & dam would not be desirable, but as the fall is distributed over a length of river of about nind miles the proposed method of de velopment may weTl com; that of a lateral canal in dealing with the large quan tities of water needed for the cconomical velopment of power. The elesation selected fo the lake surface is o comproise between n desire to abtain as high a fall as possibie and the necessity of reducing fo @ reasomable| Groat Fal study birds. for in thowe r bLirds of gay plum: mi With even in the environs o Then. perhiaps, these people who came “TH " NEAR MOUTH, OF DI THE MOU for manufacturing pur-| aqueduct dam | into se. parts fc used the overflow ges occasioned hy sea will roll above | leghanies made {sometimes o encountor mon- | s O e e o) 4% | poses goes back certainly to the time right to purchase ihat have beeti o i | e tall_sua One | sters which t d serpents. In) Tven with e elevatim " ehort sieten of|of the American revolution and most of land in Monigomery county and that have been a mil-| G gee fike s the older books one will find these | fie Chesapeake and Olio cazal and rond of | probably to an earlier time. The (o “lay, construct and build lines of I E R e ten e e e creatures mamed “water snake the electric railway between Washington and| building of a manufacturing city at | ¢onductors along. upon or over o the signs ter snefe. k snake. “'sal Cabin Johvs bridge will be oserflowed, together | (10 fa11s awas u part of the plan of squares, lanes, alleys, roads the Potomac river is set tyrning turbi paved or unpaved. in Montgomery es counties and to with a smail length of the Baitimore aad Oh raitrond. read the but th the Iotoma tive \ro ! | Potoma r lmp N i ey nd producing 5 [ ted by tween cesiors of ours were not so far re- . o : o was incorpor ¥®al and power. These are the rock and in th moved from the ichthysauridae. the Under authority of an act of Con-|{CMPany, which was incorporus I connect the s W oany manu g 2 | . Maryland and Virginia in 1784, and in 4 i dens of the tom: tween the | D erhaps jmastodons, the bromtosaurus, the di- | gress approved May 26. 1908, Maj. § (TR A I Nashinkton] facturing plant, etc., au 1so with Yot By it Chien | 1R TOck that ¢ | nosaurus and other large, flerce wild | Jay J. Morrow. Corps of Engincers, |Which project (Geors NNZLON | 4y Jine or lines authorized to | Ljttle and il b ventirous tures that lived here some time made report. July & 1909, on | Was the dominating fizure. mile- | greeted in the District of Columbia were set i chen deep “in- ' lerzed Wash | before vour ancestor: rived. that ! studies and plans for increasing the |long canal enabling boats to pass Mr. Wright, in concluding his re- = od up 1 thi th they (t 1cestors) seemed 1o have water supply of the District. The jaround the falls was also a DOWer port to the Pepartment of the Inte na ved i : { m o have | W PP and iu jagged | Ney which bhut litt) r of the il creatures “ following methods were discussed in |[canal in that it delivere ater 10 rior. wrote = 5 = | miles of was Lty ca v snakes that report: the wheels of the fantasies. W 4 was you huilt wt Lis and frog (1) Py raising the crest of the present dam Canal on the river Breat | gy ting necessity o AR S x i melten. redf o Feotes S ! at Great Fails prosperity attende PTOJEct: BE- | fis'a IexPhemBuit ti Shabie e @ They w redder thas | (n Gl PERHAPS in the after vears | 2!, Raising the slesation of the watef in| cause the company organized to make | i e gatir {0, witich it be any ¢ that man Knows bt { A 3 y e ST TG =3 y {the river navigable from Cumberland | mittelly eutitfed: with the cortainty anything tha an K i st with glas tto will cruise on|[ A WASHIN IN HIKER STOPS AT AN ABANDONED SHACK ALONG n ¢ 2 1 1 its charter | Within a few ears evers cabie inch of waier he earth grew older they turned - 4 HIVER. it{to Georgetown failed and its charter | wi g . R caxtl Srewe o 5 this broad. long whose mar- Cite s generally | was taken over by the company. | Which we now awn will e reauired for d 19 stone—to cold. hard gy o Liin will be what How the crest of line project. ) Iwhich proposed building @ canal be- | p[c tOUsPI: W Fia ek . mix with white erveia! quart " = he P, ¥ D at some time within the nest few years wf quartz that in some places is our high ridges, Passengers will logk | than we are, followed in climbing ection of the chief of engineers, the Potomac river a1} {ween those eities. That was the | jucreasing. the sxiont of govereat ow . "l down to ar climbingz up from the dis- A.. and which plan has been 2D- | conquit and tuncel fo MoMillag Park weservoir, | CHesapeake and Ohio canal. The mills, | ship at Great Falls—with all these cireun down into the depths and see our old minent. indispata play#rounds among the rocks. may call them “the picture rocks of sink. yeltow. brown and blac of the rocks spangled themselves in- side and out with shininz flakes of mica Jeweled themseives . witi ; the Federal Power Comgiig: ure | tion. commission was created of | by authority of Congress under an rsion | @ct approved June 10, 1920, which di- (5) By pumping from the Potomac river at|1¢ft With no other safe communication | stauces plamis fn yiew some point south of the Aqueduct bridge to Mc | With the outside world than by rough Milian Park reservoir. yand hilly roads, languished and de-| By taking the additional suppls from|cayed. But the great rush of water at ! mal ang terrific depths” ps farther on in be a subm: metal, und exc First, all adv zution for power 1o actew water ta uvolvine nt land Fairfax county not exceeding 3.000 acres “in an entire body” fronting on the river and for a distance not < sent | of the ion. Februa Baker, in h n. cleft ound determinel dept The report of Maj. Tyler v to Congr: vith the approvs water power comm »t heen long |14, 1 nd Secreta acquire by pu ¥ Indians cam 2 1o ¢ of countr. have been to pick out such e | for picnics! e familiar to many, Perhaps in that future there wiil be »od :u.ll plain s had n pla Rock. at Falls to McMillan Park reser- ¢jYoir. In the meantime the Patuxent river as a source of supply was sus- ted. but a definite recommenda- | COntinuous He urged that the exig manded the gu He though est mode of actio the legislature o tiny zarnels and other precious B s e e i ) ; 3 % 5 : ! T owering trees | the past) ‘pleasure haunts of mn; a 4 ¢ take pa ge for the ! tected it “to report to Congress the Creek. v | 3 P " stones. They locked up in their em- i o Bl trees : L parties may take pas gtec . : ) the falls was a lure to many ad- | parposes stoGeest Falls should be extingnich brace many veins of gold—pure zold Axe St D Gl in thelprimeval denizens of this region.” | netherlands or the real bottomiands | st and in detail the cconomic value 4 Creepp I0F the additional supply {rom| vopsyrous business men | he abarheent” should_ atquie the o & & n around Washington. Mans | _ 7 f the lake. One of these boats per- | ©f developing power in the Potomac n < 5 @ i | o i They alss> buried within themselves hingionians have 4 meneral ac-|and things like that. Strange fishes. | of the lake. B DO Dl Niver™ The cominiasion Wik dlreeted |- (D By sinking in the water.! On February 4, 1839, the legisiature | o every gmbic foot of water at that po field: of “fools” gold.” or iron pyrites, i 4nds of iheland even new varicties ofcatfish and | haps is L"'“':"'.' :"i’m‘: r;"kr“v],"‘. hwer. | in conneetion with that survey and beacingstrata dnd Bum of Virginia granted a charter to the ;:‘.:’»D" Beinb. mum“;r Seet ehoute ¥ N s of | L ¢ consider 2 acle or a to | > § 3 ) apply from the up ches of | i3 calls Ma ¢ . 2 5. * Second, the new ug s r things. glit- | and the scores of rocky isicts | €¢ls will float around the places. Some [ 1050, CORESE G UG of that hoat is | $1udy. to submit plans and estimates ¥ 3 & supply from thi: upper branches of | Great Falls Manufacturing Company | Pullt’ with refere x zeneral piun whic around which the old Potomat fum | modern maid looking down into the | JATHE. N NI tima thik rock | of cost necessary to-secure an_in- | 7608 e - for the purpose of manufacturing | will permit the-ntilization of the existing rizi % and over whichi it often| zreen depths may gizgle and cry out. | 555" WFion Yo ‘stand—look out and | creased and adequate water SupblY | voranly somdured was tant ot wais: | HemP. cotton. flax, wool. «Lc. ut Great of war wme tme s Jult in th urges !“But what funny people they must; 7o e et—was called | for the District of Columbi 0] as that of build- | gajs, Authorit cranted it to | velopment of the hydroelectric power plant ‘ SoNE feet a : a new conduit and tunmel from - H i’ i gl vast and u K area up Indi < on floats ire-reflecting machin tirned oth s re knowsn to thejPic on | 11 121 "l seretars Baker, T i ; R [T At at Tooked lon £rital will petfectiyireveal ilie L O . tha | mission and as Secretary of Was,|llon was inot made. because n.rr.‘f"\ eeding one and one-half miles. C.joe o) -user of it 1 desreds ecoarte iUl T B A nlxu-;l.;;l w0t this nland sea. to enfoy. I ey a0 ol ireud. uson Consrass. ihe. meed. forihed been no ivestigation’ of that|BAward SWelght. wasistant attorney ge, would revoke the charter o e it 3 Wk A o Ll B R e on the little | favorabie action on the report by | WVer: Congress. in an act approved | report to the Department of the | the compuny. or that tie iy H thow: ang Feto Ve vien oir eves | aherldg e Lasainiibon andty | O e ther Polomue. | Cansrdss. dn ber i DO et | March 2. 1911, authorized such an in- | Interior. Februars 1909, on the | Hesn Bl non-nser Sl conit B0; n them. and shall elose thers will be no one lert | the side of this picture machin {3;_!|r~:uu\wxli‘\:‘_\ Rels e Bl o e A et o engres o Liautiprisedisuch o Interlor. February 1, 1909, ‘on the | been such non-user. thut a court unon place to the shore litthe | appropriation of $200,000 with which stream th called & nd we | to start work on the Tyler plan for { will now submerge. following closc- i increas the District’s water sup- 11y the rocks on which they found a | bly. In his letter fo the President of foothold in their descent My the Senate and to the Spea | many feet, gome coarse and some ! House of Representatives, Secre diinty, some hob-shod @nd some in ! Baker said t the wate quarter shoes, have followed | natic S0 serious that “e this date provision should be | this trail 5 3 “Now, if you will look up vou witl made at this session of Congre: fur, et n fair idew of (he height of the | commencing work.” Ile quoted from rook we left o few seconds ago. Thi of the ¢Fderal Power Com- trail through @ forest of fossil trees ssion that it is the opinion of all was famous for flowers which the | Who have investigated the subject ancients « ‘spring b aties.' ! that there wi no advantage in 1 g tooth violels. ‘crow-foot violets! | treating plans for increased wate ‘Dutehman's breechgs and ‘squirrel | SUpply as a part of the project 10 de corne e are now emerging from | velop power from the Potomac river. this d growth of petrified trees There is a relationship between into # meadow which was famons | plans for increasing the water suppl for its growth of what the ancient £ B ing the Po- | shington ‘ealled | tomac at clsewhere inhabitants "of W, Ceal | - [ ‘grape-hyacinth’ and ‘esquisetivm’ or i for the production of electric power, { Ghorseta Here at the root of this | by he relationship ot so inti- . . : : {gione tree is a spring, around which te but that th ¢ be consid- 4 . L - . 3 : : 1 . | they used to sit. The spring is still | ercd as separate wositions. Afs ; ! hub and if you will put vour mative action on plan to in- * | hand out you will notice that the e the water supply is urgent. ! water is colder here than in the sur- | thut of harnessing the Po- rounding portions of e lake. But for power purposes is_not. Fa- we must henee! Y passing th action on the wate? supply petrificd ruin of K that was will probably cause Indefi burned down inany ages ago. and | nite postponement of the power proj- just ahead of us, that deep dark sink !ect, but tha n . and it may With fowsed rock walls encireling i, | be Some vears—perhaps a good many is what was ¢ k pond. vears—before the Potomac river, by the erection of a high dam at Little alis, becomes a lake from the lower (o the| Falls 10 the fool of the upper falls, . and other hydraulic and | place young woman, saying lue fish spangied with gol appropriation bill the iy a lotter to Col. 1 ..rl‘n A rocky stretc e i i and before the gorges of Deep run, ! east, whie juts o o e old q ! t. which juts out to the old .40 run. Scotts run. Prospect run, i I of the Potomae. and has a | Diffieult run and the vales of many ! er af stone Uhat riees far above | e Streams beeome deep and pie- | i E | a favorite resting and cating | i i e lers through this | destiny s to point that thel! I'”'"“ cue region. The bowlder- | Potomace river will be harnessed. " | strewn and rock-walled part of ,vrl\\‘h‘vl ]nnal s growing in demand:: GLIMPSE THROUGH GORGE AT PROSPECT ROCK. e e now entering had several | bydroelectr science progresses: | IN GORGE OF SCOTT'S RUN. [“ EF DO "””" R :: g K;“.u.- currents are ,\,,.\l,,w being | - names in the den time -nmd,\” : 5 Co 3 "B | Langfitt, Corps of Engineers. returned | waters of the Potomac river and|by the atterney general of Marviand 5 ] : X 3 y . ! had taken the ns to give this place | foreed to light towns and run ma- | report on the project July 12, 1912 [ power privileges at Great Falls, said | would declare the forfeiture of its du ma el of e | the srandeur | holding in hix hand an ancient €601, pame but a fellow wh - chines and a mighty river such as|No definite recommendation Wwas of the Great Falls Manufacturing nchise. or “it may be that th o Db B e i res (i ogic survey map, will be *-‘V‘I‘A"me.x pieces for n.'- paper, centuries | the Potomn will not be allowed for | made. About that time the i “\X) Company of 1839 that “its water|Same result might Le accomplished the pryIe i gres that have something like th One hundzed ago, came through here one fair sums | all tme (o waste its power. What | 24vanced that it would be f-asible | rights were evidently to be acquired | BPOR Scire facias procecdings at 1 fon & d frothin He found in | ect beneath you ia the uth of mer day. He was with a_younz lady | s " AR @' |and advantageous to combine the in-| prough riparian ownership, though, instance of the federal government iten stu ‘ #nd! frothi; b foind 10 stream Jaid down by the clas WA Do amied Chis Elace | we now look on as seenic splendors ! crease in the water supply of ”""od:n\» he whole of the Tiver is witht in any edent, merely the intangib % e b i Ll p i i maphers ax ‘Difficult run? It The next time he came throu twill be blot out or drowned out]eity with a power canal to lead from; " o urisdiction ‘of another com-j LShS of the company would be af- 1 1 A ot eton |# Erest rock gorge, which let a tem-]was with another lady. and he re- | by the backing-up of the waters, but | alls to Dalecarlia v 3 Fou eal e AR fected and the government would Abont ShinELOn | fectuous stream pass gom the high- | named this wild and G plach s cias aatiic sdls wiit Batis ([ where thenecessary addltiond] wals 2 still be obliged to take the land to A Sl ° D Rt o th Ao U E b ar R iUceas name became to being, while the giver wor s d be led a power hous T 5 are attached. ' 4 A e e e ol i ocky pereh where ro ho | anasgeie for wia, i located on the river bank and con- I GREAT FALLS MANUFAC-| " jiowever, it may be some years e | & he bewun 1o what les be-jPeople called “hikers: Swinderlust{then far above the fouming Hitle! on 1 o Henry 4, | Yerted into cieatri ¢ for gov TURING COMPANY, rcorganized | fore our wild flower gardens and our 3 . al ¢ ttom HeokeiC oS Col et e e the high! river. he led ‘Point Margaret, later | . 0 L UUTUAY ’ enr “ ¢ ernmental and municipal us A ten- 1y yumber of times and granted vari. | Tock gardens und our secret ing D bald lovers ho passed from the Bigh: ooy Teoiher and still later ‘Look. | SUmson, Seeretary of War, trans- | tative study of this plan ) ous axter i - Virminig | Pools between Little Falls and the RE— i an break Mat Wothe w ow one of the ok ¥ ous charter extensions by Virginia, | 2 S plate 1 th . now one of out Gerty, mitted 1o Congress report from | by M. O. Leighton, United S - Great Falls gorge are buried in the Hx Aheir v bounds Sk ndsome residence seciions of OuT | wygu g that the faces of the |y P w. el fitt, Corps of | 1ogical =urv nd his conclu i in no manufacturing enter- | pottom of a lake < S IR file ¥. to the r.,.k;‘ “m.r ess in e | rocks all ULk s TaEisr trel Acuts ol A ‘I st i ;’”’;‘ |“ theugh fi;\'or;ll‘vv pointed to a !,.r..\.‘_ but held title to thie lands and | e B8 reaied the deepest ? 2 Uom of thix luke. There you see 4 | re-blackened. These are the marks | ngineers. dated Fevruary - % il stidy a8 heie neoc rights it had ucquired. Tn 1885 ( . il ik B ol Il and branching tree that haslof fires at which the very simple|on the water supply of the District | was authorized i istFiet b C 8 S T \,m“‘;‘“'.\,.l.‘,r,:' Going Too Fast. agd the L e bottom turned to stone. It is a fossil of a!people of the twentieth century heat- | o (ol o avail = approved June 26, 1ie R & Manufdc 1 neopie use )y wia » & ntury o slumbia and the availability of . Gav aold . o s S snfashed and ¢ ) 1 @ik, Pick ! Gy onee called ‘sycamore’-—that | ed cans of beans and broiled frank- B Company mold, lts lanay sndyench ¢(GABY DEEL said a showman, R s build fires, boil i 4T i 2 | furters on the pointed end of @ stiek, | the Water power at Great Falls for {water rights as we 10 the T S N Lre Bhetis. o T have been told by a gentle P nd of a stick izi ool £ thel G St 5 e § used to tell lots of stories carth K laye W etk lan from the Smithsomian Institu-| BUt We have now been gone nearly [ Supplying light and power for uses [PLANEennilinas; (e flow OfMhe | Creds mail t B ol R e S haen dawn 1 b t wHl IOURRE O, o, because | have no knowledge of o hour :~Ind L uaror ¢ and. according | of the United States and of the gov- Potomac river at or near ( mnl\_ A e Lxiature “'l:l be ‘:r oxed 2 2 . m' i L thie: ‘battom. of the \lake|2ueh: dbstruse miatters myself. “Thacl o (e U8 oL ¥y uplon ithe Inde- | pnment o} the District of Columbia, | Falls have been under consideration | cyarier it was authorized to acquire, | e o '“""rm; A e L river. Sometimes it ¢ treeFatands st bourapione, e Bt tom (omomarine Guides | 1t report was made in compliance | many times since the early 90s. Cle- | hold, improve and use water power at | 4Fent. This ggent introduced a com- te. shinin ihe run reaches the level of the river. a day's wo 3 Do leion contained in the ) mens Herschel, consulting enginecer,| or near Great Falls; to construct | monplace youbz man to a common- a day's work. But it would | With a7y i o i i om VoA < ot better to take you quickly back to | : ngfitt, in 1913, anals ; ; e LG 1 S Tol St e e € Roopphan o let you out) O ophesiod. that | 5ald that during “the past twenty | St upvera/si dlNik Mialsdine Allow me, monsieur. to present niatl sullies | col, Which you plainly sec. are swim- | S S O C L, or was prophes SALLE: owers and use the same PESERt. the water S0 10 winz amonE-Lhe Commast litwaclies OC] MiinEs BEs not 28 Cher wanrt e ol s o jtuation in the District rs many plans have been devised | st arin andl GtniE Dusolyon o MIlE- Tl Duval. daughter o mere dirt 1t tid to have been |l ihe old tree. A man from the National | in these parts when the Alpine Club, | Would bhe at the danger point within creating a hydr ciric power to generate, transmit, sell and 'of a civil engincer, heautiful, accom- tens of coniurics l ety Wit Museum told me that it is quite prob-! the Wanderlusters, the Triangle Clgl, | ¢ight years. The chief of cngineers n to utilize the of the Poto- | leuse electri clectric power andiyjicned, a divine musician, born at cind co s sditivs. Qi pools and!yple that a ne birds that were!and all the hosts of othe sodly . in tter unmlv.«n\—l mac river i reat nd dows- | light for railroad and canal. as well jy o0 b 500 row the ti w : called biue birds, goldfinches, green who nOW far up in the |l tr's report. and r - | stream from the aque Qum atjas other purposes, including the right | SER0,) - " The o ' e herons and scarlet tanagers es—1 hope—used to call this thejr [ iNg the daily consamption of Water, | that point. and it may be proper 101of eminent domain i case the use| “1'm sure Mie Duval would suit ) ) ¢ | said remark that in 1902 1 had the honor | was public. or by purchase or other- | me yamirably for a wife the young yround.” tains, were, whes t mong those branches. What va ok 4 o ¢ % P rove wounds, not content r DrogteasiwELhave made! L ThAN palo. re have been many surveys, re- The maximum daiiy draft ofy water alrends | to advise a syndicate of New York wise. and to hold and improve reall .. . irrupted, “and with her ap crust of the e sum | 2 E St a 1d hieb ts and plans for utilizing the Po- eds a safe sent storage! bankers upon just such a proposition. ; and personal property. and to sell = Their w through that erust autumn. Sor pokell ‘thelt rocky|Siredk of gravel and bowiders which ¢ river maker of electric |And PImMPRR cap: robable that! making me. fairly well informed on!and morigage the same. 000 francs— el duily con O in less than eight years the averuge vill also exceed the present safe n- at] islature granted the company the Tav | heads and noses ahove the surface jn| 30U see on the slope and which used | powor and for inercasing the water i axons of low water, and many of (10 be @ hillside, and which you €an|supply of Washington. The latest of [*umbtion v e e them lay always just a little helow | make out among the tall Waving|these plans is that developed and |0t Co Lo v unforescen ron. | YOUT hand in the present invest i to say. ‘Born at Marseille Py ' ater and rhuined inta heish. | grasses. was one of the trafls that! prepared by Maj. M. €. Tyler Corns | @ s i e s fnal Ao | tion. tures in the Potomac river betweento say. iy am the river as it gassed abov ose people, much more -like of Engineers, Ul AL acting under te tie meihod fo be adep mcreasing the The plan of utilizing the flow at the Great Falls and the government habitant ’ S 4 [ --. . 2 __ ofia, J i ! the sybject before receiving the hard rocks that pointment of consulting enginee: § o those =zr broken, upteaved and twisted L.-I conti sajd the agent. * s abo sa- ! right fo build dams or other struc. | continue.. said ghe g Koy abony April 6, 1894, the Maryland |cg-J «‘Pardon me; not so fast. Let me within the earth. Or see at i betwe Glue Rid

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