Davis County Clipper | 1923-08-31 | Page 4 | Forest Examiner Gives Version Cause of Flood

FOREST EXAMINER GIVES VERSION CAUSE OF FLOOD Numer numerous oivi fired lire which during the past years have destroyed the brush aspen and sagebrush and laid bare the watersheds in farmington canyon made possible the disastrous floody flood which struck farmington august according to forest examiner F 8 baker of the U S forestry service who with professor J H baul of the university of utah roae mad p the watersheds ter sheds in P armingto armin gt n canyon tuesday lie ile said that the amount of bedim sediment ent from such areas and it was evident that the greater part of the flood came from these denuded areas