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Scientific American, Vol. 96, No. 18 (May 1907) (1907)

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n Sink. Nature had invited this with the view to depositing the silt against the lower several Southern rivers, and built one of the first rail- proposition, and had done a good deal of the engineer- row; but the Colorado declined to be handled like the way bridges across the Ohio River, now took… … originally planned, and above the water level into the levees. A track was now put in MAP SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE VARIOUS ATTEMPTS TO CLOSE from the Southern Pacific Rs.ilroad to the at low stages. As a consequence, there were THE BANKS OF THE COLORADO RIVER. times when it was difficult to…

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