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Show FLO! CHTK MUCrMMPROVED Waters Still Receding and Danger Dan-ger Thought to Be Passed. JORDAN RIVER NO LONGER OVERFLOWING ITS BANKS Officials Now Say They Have the Situation Well in Hand. The flood situation throughout the city is greatly improved. On North Temple street to the fairgrounds the streets are drier than they have" been for the. past, few weeks, the canal being be-ing able lo carry off the water in most places. The water, overflowing the banks at the present time, in a few places along Xorth Temple street, is due to I he eanal being filled with sand ind gravel ranging in si.e from small potatoes to granulated sugar. This was brought down from the upper end of the .stream and deposited during the flood, and is causing the present trouble. In other sections of the city, the officials who have tho flood situation under watch report a decrease in the. waters of tho Jordan river. Cottonwood, Cotton-wood, Parley's creek and Mill creek. Road Commissioner Willard Snow ha.s a number of men employed along Cottonwood canyon and in other places repairing the "damage done by the floods and getting ready for the expected deluge following the present warm weather. In the Southwest. Tn the vicinity of Tenth South street and the Jordan r'ner the conditions arc better than they have been for the. past few days. Although a number of the homes am surrounded with waler. the water is rapidly diminishing and there is no danger to the residents. The Jordan river is no longer overflowing over-flowing its banks and the water is being be-ing drained off in the immediate vicinity vicin-ity of the river. The damnge of the past few days lias tied tip the Ft ah Valley railroad which runs along Tenth South to Cannon's farm, and the service serv-ice has been abandoned until the tracks can be repaired and cleared of the debris. James Gibson, a resident of the northwestern part of the city, is reported report-ed as saying that the property of dozens of persons is rendered unsafe on account of the dams in the Jordan river.. He contends that thn-e dams should be removed, as their maintenance mainte-nance is contray lo law. and cites the Revised Laws of Utah to support his contention. j Utah Lake Is High. The water of Utah lake has risen until un-til at the present time il is 2.6." feet above the compromise point. The officials offi-cials who hnve the measurement of the lake in charge state that the discharge from the lake is 1200 second-feet of water. 000 of this running into the Jordan river and the rest into the canals. |