Evening star., 1925-10-15

Is permanent: the forests will not re-
turn with their burden of water.
II. however. 1t were decided that the
level of the Great Lakes must be re.
stored to the former height, 1t would
merely be necessary to build obst rue.
tions or a dam to slow the outflow at
iNiagara-an enterprise not imprac.
tlcable and not requiring 90. 600 men
decades OF labor. nor a wit of so years
Tor the water to fill to the desired
level. -
The Campbell project is not the first
one coming from Canada to add to the
moisture of dry" America. There wa 6
inuch talk some years ago Of connect
ing Hudson Bay with Lake Superior
oE means of canals. The promoters
ceased activity when engineers pointed
TO the fact that Superior is 500 feet
nlsher than Hudson Bay. The means
OF causing water to flow uphill he Q
not yet been discovered, excent
through a siphon. There was also a
project to connect Hudson Bay with
the mississippi River, via Lake Winni.
peg and the Red and Minnesota
fllVerS. but again there arose the
qua andary Of running water uphill.
IN the war Department rapbook
OF 1901 Ideas is a plan which would
add TO the humidity of the semi-arid
parts or the Mississippi Valley. whose
fertility would be greatly enba need need
Ihis scheme was very simple. II
would merely require that stear, ninas
oe laid under the river, and si,ner.
heated steam run into them. caus;ne
the river to run hot water. Which,
Woulo cause vapors to rise and float
westward. N i'oh'
Not all these vasaries come from
1neIe cranks. At the National
irrigation Congress held in ogden.
Utah. in 1908. Judge Boot nra.
sented an elaborate paper outIininy
many projects for irriga ting Amer.
lea. His paper with detail mans
subsequently was published.
lie would dam the Colorado River
and let. the hot winds vaporize it's
water and the vapors floating over
me mountains would irrigate. Utah.
Dlvert the Missouri River so that
It would unite with the Colorado and
flood the valleys of Colorado and
form lake in the mountains. Dan,
the Illinois River at its mouth. until
it rose to the level Of Lake Afichiga n
400 or 500 feet above it's natura !
level. Unite all the rivers of the
East into one great body of water.
IL is not a generation ago when
France proposed to flood vast areas
of the Sahara Desert, which areas
are hundreds Of feet lower than sea
level The result would be a great
inland sea. which would change the
climate not only for Northern Africa
but of Southern Europe.
Less than two decades ago it was
proposed to dam certain channels in
the Bay of Fundy. not for the pur-
pose now so much in the public mind
of utilizing the hydraulic power Of
the ,tides-but to divert the Polar
current Of ice water out toward the
midatlantic. where it would strike
the Gulf Stream, diverting at least
a part Of the Gulf Stream away from
the coasts of England, Ireland and
France so that the climate of those
countries would become much colder.
while part Of the Gulf Stream would
be turned along the shore of Maine
and Nova Scotia. to warm their cli-
mates.
When one makes his plans for re-
modelling the earth by considering a
12-fnch globe. they all seem so simple
One recalls that glaciers once COW
cred North America down as far
south as the Ohio River. and that
tropical plants and tropical animals
fiourished in the Arctic; hence. 1t is
enticfng to plan to restore the world
to it's earlier condition, or even to
Improve upon creation" forgetting
that the omnfpotent Creator used
billions of years for His work
lCopyright. 1925. BY Paul V. Collns)