In the early history of our country. before the destruction of our forests and before an extensive cultivation of our lands. and at a time when our population was not so widely distributed. the dangers from excessive floods were by no means serious. The subject in the early days was never thought of except as purely a local problem. The citizens of the various sections of the country who had immigrated to and located in districts subject to overflows were for a considerable period of time able to make themselves reasonably secure from flood disasters. As the years passed on and the country became more thickly settled. and as the conditions that retarded the flowage of waters were gradually removed as civilization progressed. the task. once so easily accomplished. gradually became one that exceeded their powers to perform. So stupendous became this burden upon those living within the path of the rushing floods that it became necessary within the past decade for the Federal Government to assume an appreciable measure of the accumulative burden.
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