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Teddy Roosevelt: “The Government dams should be used to produce hundreds of thousands of horsepower as an incident to improving…”

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The Government dams should be used to produce hundreds of thousands of horsepower as an incident to improving navigation; for the annual value of the unused water-power of the United States perhaps exceeds the annual value of the products of all our mines.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt advocates for the use of government dams to harness water power for navigation improvements, highlighting the untapped potential of U.S. water resources.

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