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.STEvENSfORR|vER
IMPROVEMENT
CONGRESS WILL BE ASKED FOR
100000 TO CONTINUE HIGH
DAM WORK.
Co-oPERATEs WITH NYE
Request for improvement Of the 81.
Croix River 10 Filed With the
House Committee
Other Business.

washington, Jan. o.-hepresentatlV
Stevens has just concluded number
of conferences with members of the
house committee on rivers and har-
bors, concerning a number of projects
among which were the st. Croix and
Minnesota river and the continuation
of the work on the high dam in the
Mississippi, and he believes the
chances for securing appropriations
for these projects are good.
Mr.. Stevens, together with Mr.. Nye,
will soon ask congress to appropriate
100000 to continue work on the high
dam, and both congressman believe
the dam will be completed within the
next few years. The disposition of pow.
er generated from dams erected in
federal streams will not be touched
upon in the general river and harbor
bill, but will be left for special legisla-
deavor to obtain a concession recogniz.
ing the existence Of the corporation
authorized by the Minnesota state
legislature to dispose of the power.
Mr.. Stevens has filed with the house
committee a memorandum from the
citizens of the st. Croix valley and the
city authorities Of saltwater, headed
by Mayor Brennan, asking for a sur
vey with a view to the general i'm.
provement of the st. Croix in Mime
sofa and Wisconsin.
Push Two Projects.
The st. Croix Valley improvement
association is pushing this project
with a. view to the special considera.
tion of two subjects. They want to
rid the river Of logs which are prov
ing an obstacle to navigation, and they
desire that a plan shall be evolved,
whereby the communities along the
river may cooperate with the federal
government in improving levees and
harbors.
Representative Stevens has received
assurance that a survey of the st.
Croix, with a view to improvements,
will be authorized in the river and
harbor bill soon to be reported.
Another project to which Mr.. Stew
ems has directed the attention of the
house committee is the improvement
of the Minnesota river as far as Nor
ton. Army engineers estimate that
this project would cost $780, 900. They
have reported that the object sought
would not Justify such large ex-
penditure. The officers Of the Mime,
sofa River improvement association
have given assurances that the land
owners along the stream are willing to
make contributions at the rate Of S.
an acre.
Such contributions in the aggregate
would amount to about $25O,00O for
the completion of the reservoir at Gull
Lake. An appropriation of $4,000 will
be sought.
Lindbergh crIticises Reserve Assn.
The monetary commissions plan for
a national reserve association; further
considered at meeting of the com.
resentative Lindbergh Of Minnesota,
author of resolution to investigate
the money trust that under it control
would not be taken away from Wall
street.
"More than half of the fifteen
branches as suggested in the plan.'
said Mr.. Lindbergh, would be organ
lied by Morgan and Rockefeller in
fuences and would give them. and
their associates, control. There are no
suggestions that any change is to be
made in the reserve system. It is
tho rocorves Orincina1lv that give the
money control to limited few"