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before it is too late, follow in the footsteps of those 

 men in South Dakota and other places who have 

 set such good example. 



Apart from the conserving of water, the dams 

 play another and almost equally important part. 

 Floods, as already stated, are a source of almost 

 unlimited trouble to both the farmer, the lumber- 

 man, and the villages. In fact everyone may 

 indirectly suffer from the effects of too much 

 water. Bridges are destroyed, roads rendered 

 impassable and endless confusion is the result. The 

 following piece of news is more eloquent than any 

 words of mine on the subject. It appeared in the 

 Gazette (Montreal) in the issue of September 9th, 

 1913. Curiously enough, I was on my way to 

 carry on my studies of beaver in Ontario when it 

 happened to catch my eye. 



Bursting of Beaver Dam. 



cause or big slides on canadian pacific. 



" Vancouver, B.C., September 8. — All trains 

 held up on the main line of the Canadian Pacific by 

 slides are now on their way east and west. The 

 line was finally cleared at eleven o'clock this 

 morning. Yesterday the population of Field, the 

 town nearest the slide, which occurred between 

 Pallises and Glenogle, 25 miles west of Field, was 

 increased by the addition of 2,000 passengers who 

 were held up by the delay. 



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