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Title: Story of Lee County, Iowa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Moorhead, Samuel W., 1849- Roberts, Nelson Commins, 1856-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lity. In 1868 the United States Government began the construction ofa canal along the Iowa shore through the rapids, for the purpose ofimproving the navigation of the river. It was completed and openedfor boats in 1877. I^ ^^is canal there were three locks—the upperone at Galland, the middle lock, near Sandusky, and the lower lock,at the foot of the rapids. The cost of the canal was $4,500,000 andabout three millions more were expended on the dry dock and appur-tenances. Although the Government work was not intended to develop thewater power of the rapids, it served as a stimulus to interested partiesto take some definite action toward that end. Consequently, in 1871,while the Government canal was under construction, two Keokukmen employed an engineer to make a survey for a dam at their ownpersonal expense. Their idea was to construct a large wing dam,but the proposition did not meet with the approval of the engineer,who advised them that such an undertaking would be likely to prove
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