Show mountain green menaced by flood waters MOUNTAIN GREEN tuesday night at a terrific deluge struck the wheel a resort in mountain green angry waters of cottonwood had swollen to such a degree that trees were uprooted huge boulders were tossed like pebbles until the entire course of the he stream was changed change d the store motel and cabins owned and operated by V A lor were flooded floo dedi and the floors fine rugs and floor coverings in in the motel were submerged in flood water and silt friends and neighbors labored diligently to save furnishings nish ni ings p of the cabins from destruction st on the entire park was submerged and resembled a lake in one cabin mrs levan who was caring for children was forced to stay on the bed to keep from getting wet the austin winchester and the elwood williams properties were surrounded by the roaring torrent in checking with D D harris of the davis and weber canal co it was found that the weber river was higher wednesday than it has been for several years mr harris said that an estimated 1300 cubic feet beet per second was flowing down the he channel this amount of water would cover an area of acres one foot deep every 21 hours the maximum flow ever estimated on the he river was cubic feet per second with four or five more days of warm weather it is possible the river will get even higher than han on wednesday in figuring further it was found that provided there was no evaporation from the great salt lake there here is enough water running into it from the weber river alone to raise the lake an inch every two weeks both echo and east canyon reservoirs are full indicating an ample ampie supply of water for the summer |