Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1923, Page 43

U. 8. to Aid Texas in Curbing THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. complete outside the Texas project. The large force malintained in Ulah this summer has returned to Wash- ington and most of the members are was that of Col. Charles H. Birdseye, Destructive Springtime Floods|"s5 55 & 55 ez Most of Staff of Topographical Office to Help. Huge Dams May Be Built to Hold Waters Back. Practically the entire Washington staff of topographical engineers at the Tnterior Department, between six- tv and seventy men, will be sent to Texas during the next few weeks to supervise the most ambitious project ever undertaken by the service—to devise some way of stopping floods in the southwest. The Washington men will make their headquarters at Austin, from which city parties will be sent out to make complete surveys of all the riv- ers which have caused flood condi- tions. The force will be in chargs cf Col. Glenn S. Smith, acting chief to- pographical engineer. The field cap- tain will be Charles F. Cook. As soon as parties return from the summer field work they are sent to X and already a considerable body are on the job, Texas Aids Plan. work will be carried on in co- tment men expect to act in a Eupervisory capacit in Texas suffers from ng drawbacks—floods in d drought in summer and Loss of millions is experienced v year—particularly from the The rivers rise in the high country in the northern counties, along the Oklahoma and Arkansas lifies. Chief among them are the Brazos, which brings almost vearly floods to Waco and the surrounding farming coun- ; the Red river, the Trinity, the %, he San Antonio and’ the Oupe tho flood waters subside, however, the river channels become practically dry. Huge Dams Susgessted. The object of the present survey will be to determine whether, by great dams in the northern part of the state or by other means, the water cannot be kept in the hiils in flood time and released gradually during the summer and fall as the needs of the farmers demand. The project entails the removal to Texas of a great number of delicate sci- entific instruments. The work will require the expend- iture of about $100,000 a year by the which, during August and September, explored hitherto unentered stretches of the Colorado river and for the safety of which grave fears were en- tertained at various times Braved Wildext Water. Col. Birdseye and his men liter- ally lashed themselves In speclally constructed boats and trusted their fate to some of the swiftest, wildest water in the world. This exploit completes the survey of the Colorado, which has been in progress for the past twelve years, and the data obtained ls expecied to prove of great value in devising fu- ture power and irrigation projects for sectipns of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. One of thé battered boats used by Col. Birdseye, constructed in com- partments, with a small cockpit in the center, is being shipped to Wash- ington and will be exhibited In the Interior Department Museum as a Trelic of the most adventurous trip ever undertaken by the surveyors. Queer Word Relatives. The name catbird is attributed by various authorities to the sound by the bird in its cry of alarm, says Na- ture Magazine. Kinsmen in the veg- etable world include catnip and cat- kin. The former takes its name from the fondness shown for it by members of the cat family. The term “catkin’ 2s applied to the flower axis of the willow and poplar and the staminate geological survey, which will come |flowers of such trees as the chestnut, out of the regular appropriation. It|oak and hickory is traced to their will result In practically 10,000 square | resemblance to the tail of the ordi- miles per year being mapped topo-|nary cat. The “kin” was added to graphically. 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