Show FLOOD SITUATION IS WELL If IN HAND Cooler Weather Gives Work Workmen Workmen Workmen men Chance to Safeguard Banks of Streams The high water margin markIn mar in most of the streams that have been overflowing and aDd damaging property in the city and county count was from four to si 81 sL inches longer 10 I yesterday than It was on last Saturday The the recession of the water Is theco a weather that has checked the melting snow in the mountains As long as 88 the we thet continues as it is the volume of water coming down the canyons will be de decreased decreased decreased creased though the danger of a dines disastrous trous flood will not be eliminated i Taking advantage of ot the temporary checking of the flood waters by the th cool weather scores of workmen are working hard to safeguard the banks Monks of ot all aU the streams from the probability of an overflow which is believed to be in inevitable Inevitable evitable ts soon as there is warmer weather For the first time since Sat Saturday Saturday those at work for the city had the flood situation well in hand Most Io t of the places where the water had left len lenthe the banks of ot the streams have been re me repaired repaired paired and the water returned to its channels At Twelfth South and Eleventh East streets ts the city Is completing the too con construction construction conStruction of ot a temporary flume under the concrete conduit of the Salt Lake LakeS S Jordan Canal company 1 This flume is to provide an outlet for tor forthe forthe I Ithe I the water overflowing from Parleys creek at this point A permanent perman nt con concrete concrete concrete crete culvert fourteen feet wide and four and a half halt feet deep has lias been built beneath the concrete conduit but this culvert is not large enough to care for forthe forthe forthe the immense volume of water coming coining down doo the creek To build the temporary flume the workmen have to work in four feet of water For several days das there has been more nater coming into the excavation the new flume fiume than could be pumped out by the engine Yesterday the water was so much lower that it was possible for the engine to pump out the water faster than it came In This fact facilitated the task of the work workmen workmen workmen men The Tue flume will probably be com corn completed completed I today It will be built of wood and braced by railroad iron I I |