Show In the Wood River County Wood rivers spring rise promises to be i the most disastrous ever known The I bridges all along the river from Ketchum Ito I-to Bellevue a distance of twenty miles have been in peril for a week past although al-though the high water now prevailing isonly a preface of what is to come in June when I tho melting snows of the Sawtooth range 1 come down the channel Although the season is late the high water has como a I month sooner than usual usua At Bellovue a hundred men are working to save the bridge connecting with Broad ford and the Glenns bridge below Ordinarily Ordi-narily the river is about fifty feet wide now it is a mill race a mile in width Considerable Con-siderable damage has been done at Broad ford and a score of families have moved to I the bench in Bellevue for safety Communication Com-munication with Brcadford by teams will I soon be shut off The water will probably not subside for six weeks to come The mines have all laid in an ample supply sup-ply of fuel and consequently there will be no shutting down There is not a single bridge left at Little Wood river H F BAKER |