The Parker post., 1912-06-15
PILE DRIVER
CLOSING GAP
OLIVE LAKE BREAK NOT SO
BAD, AFTER ALL.
Only Small Part of Valley Affected
By Flood Waters--Travel
Via Blythe Jet.

BLYTHE, CAL, June 13.-The
waters from the break in the
levee are slowly working their way
down the valley seeking the low plac-
es and leaving behind pool of mud
dy water. Fortunately only a small
part of the farming lands lie i'm the
path of the flood and the loss ITO
growing crops will be small
The blame for the break cam only
be charged to AN unprecedented rise
i'm the Colorado river, but even then
the dyke would have held had not
the muSk-rats made holes that were
not discovered and when the dyke
gave away it went with a crash, and
before sufficient help could be obtain
ed the break widened ito about 109
feet. However, by working under
many difficulties the break was kept
from getting any wider.
With nothing on hand to work
with, the only thing was to make
the best of the situation and get
something
A pile driver has been secured and
began driving piles into the break
Sunday might. G.. J. Berg went to
Parker Saturday to attend to the
shipment of a carload of piles which
were ito be folated down the river
from that place Tuesday. Another
carload is be:ng d9ssssse1t from bly,
Jc. Quite a number of Indians ar
rived ON the pile-rafts.
Before the pile driver arrived
poles, baled hay and sacks of sand
were rushed to the gap so as ito be
ready and the gap is now being clos
ed with little trouble.
When lit was seen that it would be
impossible to close the gap at once,
the next thing was to control the wa
ter so as to do as little damage as
possible and p d. Mcintyre, with a
large force of men and teams, made
and while they did everything possibl
Darling and SchWalback property,
sible, lit was of mo avail and they
were forced to Withdraw their team'
and see the waters gradually cover
the fields of grain and sweep on TO
the houses The water was over
waist deep i'm the Schwalback prop
erty.
The irrigation canal turned the
water west at this point and it was
forced TO THE lower lands next to
the mesa, going by the way of De
kins, Bates and Pfost's and then
gradually working its way south. By
working might and day large part
of the grain and hay in the path Oh
the water was removed thus cuttilg
down the loss of crops. Household
goods were removed to higher ground
quite colony being located near the
property O1l UHe NlSoCINIHIc ioSuu-
In the meantime the high waters
IN the lower end of the valley was
causing the automobiles trouble and
the Green line changed its route to
Blythe Jc coming to THE edge OF
the mesa and then by team and boats
to Blythe and other valley points.
While this all sounds very bad
there are thousands of acres of lands
that are not affected by the floods
and the people are aus safe here as
anywhere and very little complaint
is heard from anyone
1t is simply am accident that
might happen amy place and may
never occur again, for it Us a lesson
that i'm the end will mo doubt prove
a blessing aus it will arouse us to
the point where we will take measures
to make the dyke absolutely secure
beyond amy possible danger for we
know now what might happen and
we will prepare accordingly.