Show WILL ASK LEGISLATURE TO 10 DEEPEN OLDEN OGDEN RIVER RIVERBy By B The Tho T 1 Special News Noses OGDEN OLDEN Dec 8 S. With With a view of ot I I preventing the destruction of property spring floods In the Ogden river a bill bUl will be presented to the legislature asking asking asking ask ask- ing for state funds to deepen the stream channel Capt Copt E. E T. T city attorney presented a a. draft of the proposed bUlto bill bUl to the city commission announcing that he had arranged Senator Joseph Chez of ot Ogden for presentation of tho the bill The amount that tho the legislature is to tobe tobe tobe be asked to appropriate is not fixed in the rough draft of the tho bill bUl but the city attorney asked that the city engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer be Instructed to survey the posed work and estimate the cost This request was referred to Commissioner Chris Flygare who will take the matter matter matter mat mat- ter up with the city The Tho proposed bill bUl provides that the work of deepening the channel straightening the course of the stream and strengthening tho the banks shall be bedone bedone bedone done under the supervision of the state engineer and tho the Ogden city com com- mission Ogden river goes on a 0 rampage periodically periodically periodically peri peri- and thousands of dollars' dollars worth of property is damaged The flood of last spring was perhaps the worst In to the tho city's history Now It Is proposed to have the river curbed from the mouth of Ogden canyon canyon canyon can can- yon to a point near the west limits of the city city- An effort will be made to have the bill made one of the the- first or orders orders orders or- or ders of business that the work may bedone be bedone bedone done before high water next spring |