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The development of the great river is a stupendous problem. Not alone is the layman staggered by the difficulties involved and by the immensity Of the stakes, but the engineer is challenged and is struggling to conceive of the gigantic works that are required, - dams Of twice the height of the highest darn yet attempted, reservoirs twelve to twenty times as large as the largest artificial reservoir in the world, and power generation on a prodigious scale.
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