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Last week, after conferring with Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Army Engineers, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis told the President and the public that the five boards were rushing through "a two years' job in six months," would have their data ready for Congress "before it meets...
Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of the U. S. Army engineers, rose to his feet. General Jadwin reiterated the army-engineer insistence upon levees as the backbone of flood prevention. He said that though the flood has submerged 20,000 square miles, it would have submerged 30,000 had levees not restricted its spread. General Jadwin also attacked the popular theory that reforestation would prevent future floods; he pointed out that in 1844, when the valley was thickly forested, it experienced one of the greatest floods of its history...