BYBEE-MALOTT : THE FLOOD OF 1913 



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to our cities and towns is still before ns. The writers are scarcely 

 willing to venture any proposal, not having giv(>n this phase of 

 floods more than passing notice. But it seems that the one prac- 

 tical thing for the present is to build strong levees sufficiently high 

 to prevent the possibility of the waters getting over them into the 

 towns and cities. A study of the situation will very likely prove 

 this proposition not only practical, but a necessity, if any precau- 

 tions are to be taken at all. 



