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of calmness to the Gulf of Mexico.
The task of the river engineers is to coerce the Missouri river into "stay out," and to coax it out of its long time custom of changing its channel whenever the whim moves it. This may sound like an exaggeration, but to anyone who has spent a day on the river with the army engineers, and has seen the Missouri eating away at a cornfield with wicked energy, swallowing up earth, corn, weeds, fences and trees, it seems sometimes as if the river actually had a personality, and an outlaw one, at that.
Other Ruinous Operations.
And while carrying away farm land from one bank, somewhere else it is equally busy, piling up sand, mud and driftwood, making land out of what was river a few days before. Then, too, the river has a habit of occasionally clogging its own channel, building sandbars so long and so high that it must needs become broad and shallow in order to continue its restless course.
It is a constant struggle, but it is not a hopeless one, and the engineers point with a measure of justified pride those places along the stream where they have built dikes, which resulted in the making of land; to the concave bends where revetments have stopped the river from cutting bank. Given a  Dike on one side and revetment on the other, and constant diligence, so that small breaks may be repaired before they become serious, the river engineers say they keep the stream fairly well anchored. Once Great Trade Artery. 