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19 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> m <br /> 0 <br /> per second at Wichita. <br /> Prom this it will be seen that the Arkansas River throughout m <br /> that q <br /> portion of its length in which we are interested, that is, <br /> 0 <br /> from the location of Caddoa Dam to Wichita, does not have a <br /> uniform capacity. It is relatively large immediately below <br /> the dam, but shrinks east of Garden City until when it reaches m <br /> the point where tributaries such as Cow Creek and the Little <br /> Arkansas River begin to come in, and then it enlarges again. <br /> Now, with that information at hand I caused an examination <br /> to be made of the published gage heights and discharges at <br /> those three stations, Syracuse, Garden City and Lamed. These <br /> published gage heights and discharges are found in the publica- <br /> tions of the Division of Water Pesouraes, Kansas State Board <br /> of Agriculture. A study of those does not reveal any pro- <br /> gressive deterioration of the channel. It does reveal in- <br /> stead a fluctuation in the relation between gage heights and <br /> channel capacity. <br /> At times when little water goes through that section of <br /> the river there is a tendency for sand bare to become over- <br /> grown with vegetative growth, grass and weeds , no trees. <br /> There is also a tendency when floods come downstream, as in <br /> 1914, 1915 , 1923, 1921, and other periods, for the river to <br /> recapture some of that channel capacity. <br /> I might dust read a few of the stage discharge relation- <br />