Five times in the last ten years, the Souris River has flooded its banks and sent many of the 35,000 citizens of Minot, N.Dakota, scurrying to higher land. The U.S. Government has poured funds into various flood control measures, but to little avail; and now Congress is considering construction of a $100 million dam that would flood some 30,000 acres of land upstream from the town.
A little more than half of that land belongs to the U.S.; but the rest belongs to some 50 farmers who raise wheat, oats, barley and livestock there,...
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