BYBEE-MALOTT : THE FLOOD OP 1913 



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46. The flood of August, 1875, did more damage to the growing 

 crops. 



47. The flood of 1875 and the recent March flood were about 

 the same hi height. 



48. The Mississippi River has been brought under controi 

 to a large extent by a system of levees. 



49. No practical system of levees could have held White 

 Hiver within its banks. 



50. At Romona, where the bluffs act as levees, the water was 

 twenty to thirty feet in depth over the flood plain. 



51. Groundhogs are the chief enemies of the levees on White 

 River. 



52. The valley is wide where it passes through the region of 

 shales and is narrow in the limestone region. 



53. Where the valley is wide the water spread out and killed 

 much wheat. Where it is narrow, much damage was done by the 

 erosive power of the currents. 



54. As a rule, in the parts of the cities that were flooded there 

 was less disease than at any corresponding time before. They 

 cleaned up. 



