Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-11
Greeks and Rivers Now Carry
All Their Banks Will 81
Stand.
BIG GANGS ARE AT WORK.
City and County Officials Arc Taking
Every precantion to Protect
Homes iii Lowlands.

a further drop in the height If the
water is recorded today in the flood
ed districts in the city, due to a
sshrinkage of the volume of water pour
Ing INTO the Jordan river from the.
Cottonwood and Parley's canyons. The
cool days and nights have been boon
70 Street Superintendent j !. T. Raleigh.
who has done such efficient service in
controlling City Creek in North Tenn
PIE, though their effect. In relieving
the distress OF the citizens is very
slight.
Road Commissioner Willard Snow
4 has been making daily trips to Cot
8tonWood canyon and elsewhere this
Weeli1.lna ne 4endeavor TO repair the
tprea cnes end prevent further damage.
lie has been using, it was said this
morning, all the men available in
Z Cottonwood canyon assisted by the
sNlaxfield Mining company in tho can
sSon, which has placed Il number of
men andt5teams at his service. Mr..
Park, road supervisor, is also assist
ing to make the roads possible ana
to pu ut in the bridges which have been.
washed away. Six bridges are report
z e6l to have gone out west ofathe power
plant. The condition in the canyon
q is said to be much batter today .as
there is a drop of fully feet III the
water near the Old paper MILL
Mr.. Snow has also a force of men
working on Parley's creek, cndeapor-
ing to get things in good shape for
the raise that Will come with the ris-
ing temperatures of today.
Speaking of conditions around Tenth
South today, Pauper Clerk James Sa-
bine said he visited all the district
n tfAr NJ,
families living in their homes who
should be out Of them, as the water
In each case Is over the floors OF
most of the houses. Two OF them
live in Glendale avenue, They are G..
Z II. Fuller and Mrs Susie Wilson. The
other case Is that OF John Morgan.
living III Tenth West
Mr.. Sabine is of the opinion that
With the approach OF warm weather
there will be similar scenes enacted
as have been witnessed during the
past week.. Most Of the water. he
says, is still in the mountains. as Is
shown by the late report from Brigh--
five feet of snoWSon the 1eye1y up there.
AS soon as the hot days come again
these melting SHOWS will again swell
the creeks and floods may again be
looked for in the opinion OF Mr.,
Sabine. i5 i II, II
iWliOh
north Twelfth West. says that the
water in the flooded districts north
of The city has leceded about six in
fches and he&does not look for a recur-
renee OF the extremely high level on.
3 the Sth inst. There are in that vi
entity about half a dozen houses sur
rounded by water, but it has not,
reached the floors Of the homes. MI.
Mexican has returned from Utah lake
and he reports the dam completely
covered at the entrance of the river
and the river Is carrying all the water
1T can. 1T would seem that as soon.
as warn, weather comes again.
augmentlng the Aow from Cottonwood
and Parley's canyons, the river must
rise again. s
Street Supervisor j. I. Raleigh. has
a number of men at work in North
Temple cleaning out the ditch west
of the conduit at Sixth West and all
so in the vicinity of the Oregon Short,
slime depot. The water is lower today
bit If no further rise in the creek
occurs the street department will have
several weeks hard work on hand
clearing the rocks and gravel off
North Temple, cleaning out the creek
and putting in new bridges to re-
place those washed out.