On the recordJanuary 11, 1907
The making of this cut in a bank composed of light alluvial soil above a depression such as this without controlling devices was criminal negligence.
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presidency.ucsb.eduTeddy Roosevelt: “The making of this cut in a bank composed of light alluvial soil above a depression such as this without controlling…”
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Message to Congress on the Threatened Destruction by the Overflow of the Colorado River in the Sink or Depression known as...
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