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Taming the Kootenay

 
Duck Lake Reclamation officials reviewing plans for the project.
127 of 217 		Dyking projects went past 1935.
128 of 217 		Widening of the Duck Lake outlet.
129 of 217 		High water threatened to breach the dykes in 1961; pictured here is District 10 in Idaho.
130 of 217 		Showing the Arrowsmith property at the bottom of Archibald Hill.
131 of 217 		Clarence Olson farm, Creston.
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High water of the Kootenay River caused the dykes to slough away in some areas.
133 of 217 		The 'Black Bridge' over the Goat River.
134 of 217 		Homes and businesses along Goat River bottom flooded.
135 of 217 		Various newspaper reports concerning progress on the Libby Dam at Libby, Montana.
136 of 217 		Work trestle for the Libby Dam.
137 of 217 		The Libby Dam that would save all the farmlands from flooding and regulate water levels.
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View of the Kootenay Flats after the Libby Dam was put into place.
139 of 217 		Newspaper clippings from the Nelson Miner, detailing the flood of 1894.
140 of 217 		Dragline brought in to work on the Creston Valley dykes.
141 of 217 		Women standing in the flood waters
142 of 217 		Mae Holder and Zoe Kanester on the Reclamation Road, taken before the dykes went out.
143 of 217 		Harry Ostendorf and Bill Vigne loading logs on Harry's logging truck.
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