Show RESERVOIR BREAKS flOODING VALLEY Ranchmen Narrowly Escape Death When Wall of Water Comes FARMS ARMS TO HAVE NO WATER VATER T W HUNDRED LEFT WITHOUT W IRRIGATION Special to The an Moab May 8 Word has just been received here that the Geyser reser reservoir reservoir reservoir voir on the La Sal from which several thousand acres of land in Paradox val valley valley valhey ley hey were to be Irrigated this year broke Saturday and the greater part of the dam went out The reservoir Is at the head of ot Rock creek but bu the tha water is taken by means of a tunnel and flume into Par Paradox Paradox Paradox adox valley It is estimated that at least 2600 acres of valuable farming land will be without water this year and AS a result many young oung fruit trees will die dieThe dieThe dieThe The flood from the reservoir lasted hasted for four tour hours and raised the Dolores river six sir feet Ceet miles mUes below the reservoir site The flood was a per perpendicular perpendicular perpendicular wall of water vater twenty feet nigh high as It rushed down Rock creek Everything in its path was wiped out The heaviest losers outside of the company owning the reservoir were I Pace Bros of Richardson whose ranch ranchI on Rock creek was damaged to the extent of 2500 Their dwelling house and all Its furniture a smokehouse I filled with cured meats the corrals fencing and all other Improve Improvements Improvements improvements ments on the ranch were carried away by the flood Have Escape Lynn L nn Pace and Louie Loule Miller who were sleeping in the house when the floods came and Reese Pace who was sleeping on the outside had a narrow escape from drowning They barely reached a place pla e of safety safet when the flood crushed the building and carried it away awa Miller lost all of his wearing ap apparel apparel apparel parel except the clothing in which he was sleeping In addition to destroy destro destroying destroyIng ing all of the improvements I of the ranch including about forty acres of ot good bay hay land the flood covered the place with tree trunks rocks and heavy timbers The TheU U C C ranch and the Garvey ranch further up the creek were dam damaged damaged damaged aged to some extent but these ranches are located on steeper ground and the flood was not as high when it struck them The Tho flood was caused by b a defective spillway The pipe used for that pur purpose purpose purpose pose was set in dirt instead of con concrete concrete concrete crete The dam darn was also narrower at atthe atthe atthe the top by about twenty feet than the plans approved by the state engineer called for forA forA forA A representative of the state engl engi engineers office Inspected the reservoir two months ago and disapproved the construction of the dam forbidding for the company to fill the reservoir with wa water toy ter The dam it appears had been built in accordance with plans for a height of 20 O feet Here H re a jump in of ten feet was made on each side and ten feet Ceet higher another ten feet jog was made ma e on each side The principal stockholders in the tho company owning the reservoir are WC W WC V VC C Kyle president P T Stevens vice president and C G Kinney treasurer |