Mountain men are joining their practical knowledge with the scientific knowledge of men of the level land who are putting the plan of canalization of the Big Sandy River before Uncle Sam for consideration and backing.
There is being revived the plan of twenty years ago for the canalization of one of the best-known and most important rivers of the Blue Ridge Country--the Big Sandy.
With the system of canalization now in contemplation by the Government the river will become continuously navigable throughout the year and will possess infinite possibilities both for power and navigation.
By one stroke the canalization of rivers creates the potentialities of navigation, irrigation and mechanical power to a degree beyond computation.
Our next great step must be the canalization of Snake River, and that process at another great stroke will open the river to continuous navigation from a point a hundred miles above Lewiston to the ocean, over five hundred miles away.
Smaller canals were possibly dug during Eannatum's reign for supplying water to those quarters of Lagash which he improved or added to; and we also know that, where canalization was impracticable, he obtained water by sinking wells.
Parts of vascular systems appear to have arisen in some cases by a canalization of cells.
The smaller channels often rise by a canalization of cells.
The extensive, close canalization that characterizes parts of Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces is lacking here and for this reason, in part, the soil is not so productive.
It is difficult to convey, by word or map, an adequate conception of the magnitude of the systems of canalization which contribute primarily to rice culture.
With the Hwang ho confined to its channel, the adjacent low lands can be better drained by canalization and freed from the accumulating saline deposits which are rendering them sterile.
As adjuncts to these vast canalization works there have been enormous amounts of embankment, dike and levee construction.
The exhaustion of cultivated fields must always have been the most fundamental, vital and difficult problem of all civilized people and it appears clear that such canalization as is illustrated in Figs.
No deepening, embanking, straightening, canalization of the river is to be permanently effective until all danger of flood can be removed.
And the astute suggestion of the practical Joliet for the canalization of its waters, may be realized in the safe passage not merely of boats but of stately, giant, ocean-sized vessels from the Great Lakes to the gulf.
If modern engineering can make the canalization of one river a success, it can of hundreds of rivers.
Does New York again lead the way to a new field of national development by means of canalization of rivers at the beginning of the twentieth century, as she did by means of canal-building at the beginning of the nineteenth?
As an illustration of what could be done to-day, may be cited the canalization and the laying out of vast fields in the capital of the Empire, on whose value, however, experts are of divided opinion.
Again, a proper canalization would, by draining, reclaim for cultivation vast swamps and marshes in North as well as South Germany.
