. Conservation. Forests and forestry. Little Falls Dam, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin mental dam and reservoir, and a fur- ther appropriation of $150,000 March 3, 1881, and again $300,000 August 2, 1882, to prosecute the work on the dams and reservoirs in the State of Minnesota, and to begin work on the Chippewa River and tributaries in the State of Wisconsin, upon which sites for thirteen dams had been selected and the Government lands required with- drawn from sale. Subsequent appro- priations have been made for continu- ing work on the sources of the Mis- sissippi in Minnesota, resulting
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. Little Falls Dam, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin mental dam and reservoir, and a fur- ther appropriation of $150,000 March 3, 1881, and again $300,000 August 2, 1882, to prosecute the work on the dams and reservoirs in the State of Minnesota, and to begin work on the Chippewa River and tributaries in the State of Wisconsin, upon which sites for thirteen dams had been selected and the Government lands required with- drawn from sale. Subsequent appro- priations have been made for continu- ing work on the sources of the Mis- sissippi in Minnesota, resulting in the completion of five dams and reservoirs, about completing the system in that state. As a consequence, good naviga- tion is established from Brainerd to Grand Rapids, a distance of eighty-two miles, this being above Minneapolis, while the benefit to navigation below St Paul is of great value. Floods are restrained and water-powers benefited, although some dissatisfaction has been expressed by owners of water-powers relative to the management and opera- tion of the works. Tt is to be regretted that this great work has not been prosecuted as con- 680 templated on the Wisconsin tributaries, which contribute to the Mississippi River a volume of water greater than that flowing in the main river at St. Paul. Provision had been made for be- ginning the work upon the Chippewa River in 1882, but was defeated for the reason that lumbermen and loggers de- clined to comply with the requirements of the Government to safeguard against claims for damage growing out of charters granted by the state for dams and other privileges. In consequence the river has since been at the sole ser- vice of lumbermen for log driving and storage, and its navigation for steam- boats from its mouth to Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls, a distance of sixty miles, suspended^—a use it had served from the earliest settlement of the Chippewa Valley. Conditions are now radically changed. Log driving below Chippew
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