. The century illustrated monthly magazine . l there isonly a planked water-slide that looks like amill-dam—an enormous and magnificent mill-dam, truly, but nevertheless a mill-dam. Thewhole sweep of the fall has been covered withan apron of planks to prevent the rocksfrom being worn away, and to save the cata-ract from being converted into a rapid. Thereal dam, a short distance above the falls,affords power to numerous saw-mills, and gress did not ostensibly build the Minneapolisdam as a dam, however, but as a work topreserve the navigation of the Mississippiabove the falls. If the falls shou
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . l there isonly a planked water-slide that looks like amill-dam—an enormous and magnificent mill-dam, truly, but nevertheless a mill-dam. Thewhole sweep of the fall has been covered withan apron of planks to prevent the rocksfrom being worn away, and to save the cata-ract from being converted into a rapid. Thereal dam, a short distance above the falls,affords power to numerous saw-mills, and gress did not ostensibly build the Minneapolisdam as a dam, however, but as a work topreserve the navigation of the Mississippiabove the falls. If the falls should give way,the water in the upper river would be loweredto such an extent that navigation would beimpossible. True, there are no boats runningabove the falls, and there have been nonesince the railroads were built, but this factmade no difference in the argument. Some-body might want to run a steamboat at sometime in the future. So Congress preservedthe falls from destruction by preventing thewearing away of the rock, and in doing so the. THE FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY, if within it there is a boom to catch logs. In thewinter and spring the falls, thus tamed andfettered, are still very beautiful, the rushof waters over the symmetrical curve of thedam affording a striking spectacle ; but insummer, when most of the volume of the cur-rent is taken out to feed the mill-races, thereis little to be seen but an imposing structureof dry planks. The United States Government built theplank covering to the falls and the dam above,and maintains them. This statement struck meas a joke when I first heard it. The functionsof government as construed by Congress inappropriation bills are very elastic, but I hadnever imagined that they could be stretchedto apply to the building of mill-dams. Con- government engineers incidentally built a finemill-dam. The dam is not for the public ben-efit, however, for the companies owning thewater-power rights collect the tolls for theuse of the water, and none o
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