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Show GREAT SPRING PLOOD FEARED BY RESIDENTS IN WESTERN SALT LAKE The mountains arc packed with snow. Great Salt Lake is lrigher than in years. Utah lake is around the danger line. The Jordan river, the only outlet for the spring floods in Salt Lake, is full of sand. Residents in the southwest, section of the city are demanding de-manding that preparations be made to avert a serious sprinir flood. There is snow in tbe mountains and ' alleys of Utah. More snow than there j has been for years. Back in the mountains moun-tains the snow is well packed, accord- ' lng to the reports received by the weather bureau. The report of Dr. Hyatt ending December 31, 1906, shows an Increase in the snowfall all over the Bute. The snowfall of January, 1907, up to January 25, shows a fall of 20.3 inches. This is the record taken in Salt Lake City. The weather bureau keens no record i of the snoKvfsH in the mountains wbich is admitted to h at m 1 1 tunes at least three times as great a the fall r.i the valleys. It is a knovrn and admitted fat that Tvhr-n snow is falling in tho valleys of I'tah it is falling much heavier in the mountains. i When snow clouds aro over the il . Irvs, especially in the north part of the State, lroiu Juab and Sanpete counties north, the snow uuallv falls in the mountains. 'Sears of observ at ion has j shown that the.so mountain snowfalls are either accompanied with wind or are followed hy wind, whirh drifts the snow into the deep canvons and jjulcbe. It is not infrequent that these snowdrifts snow-drifts are over 1G0 fest deep and packed almost as solid as ice. This is the water wa-ter supply of tho northern part of Utah. These ice-packed snow banks give to Salt Lake, Ogden, Logan, Provo and many other towns their yearly supply of water. From 'ache comn the storv that the snow is from two t, three feet on the leel, with froui five to twele feet m the mountains east of the vaip. From Provo eomes tl-e tale thPt they have plenty of Mifiiv in the valley and a depth not yet known in the mountains To the mountains east of Salt Lake i ity there has been a snowfall p ich as lia not been seen for vear. Men who ha e"1"" through ,n' r:,rl yons of Fa'dev'-, the t 'otton wood. Mill " reek, l'-uiigratioii and Red Hntte sav they ha'e not P en such an a'lomnt of Miow for at lea-it twenty yi:. The level of the Great Salt Lake is convinced tha the level w i'l r;s. .n Md'-raiile lietueeri now and .Lice : Aeeordinj; t I'r.-i.e-ir. I.. Sr etidsen of t!.e re.-!a:na h oi . r !.', th. enm j.yo'ii:-e punt f I'tah ! a K i'. ' I"- r e a .-.". 1 v. . v . in the next s'tf v da v. I'arn:. : along the shores . i the l;ike ar air. a 1 v deninndiug ' r.: l "i fr on w i'. r should i' rise to :ha' point They threaten threat-en that they will ie Salt Lake ' and the al.ied car.al .'im;vi -i :e for any d an-, ages that ma v art- from tie .mt 1.. ing h'-l 1 l.a.'k by the darn in the .-uth e! d of t he lake. The street department ,v.:::;s 'ha: it ).- ha i all tt.e d.t'-he : u tne -.-. 1 out. lor .' 1- ' I 1 1 ': i t : 1 ;f are large emmh to t,il-.,. ,-r, ,.f a r in the e v t t of a :id J. n t inw . l.-: i.nts in th..- o;it''!Wi .f ; .i r T of .: v are ... griming i demand tl:a he f r t hei r r.it.v; i n. is ! v f a ' g- ,i dar.-ige iron : now twenty-one inches higher than it was at the sarue time last year, and Capt. D. L. Davis, who knows the lake as well or better than any man in the State, predicts that it will rise from a foot to a foot and a half more before the first of June. f apt. Lavis stated last night thai 'oe wafer of the lake did not hegoi to use as a rule until al.oi.t the last of )e. .in lier ..i the first of January. 1'rom th. :i until the irrigation a..n ctiiinep.-. d the rise depend' d on the amount of' snw. hep aske-1 n i ' t ." danger w as from firing floods, i apt. Pa vis -a:d that in bis opinion there hs more ii-.e bhood of damage ti ;s e .mu g spr.ng than there had been t r manv vear. I Lsp-.ia!ly was this trio ..t the y.w of the valley southwest, of this ritv. Capt. D.vis pointed out that for many years Jordan river had been far from j filled with water. The result has been ; that the channel is partly, filled with sand. The banks have caved in in many places, while in others they have grown up to a large extent with weeds, grass and brush. There, are at least three : dams in the river now that were not ; there a few years ago, one at Twelfth South, ono near the Cannon farm, and one at Ninth North. In the event of high waters it is possible that all three of these dams would have to be blown out. j I !i the ears pass, t!.. ,.; i I . , r i g ::. on m..re thin oio- r.-, (;. ,g. . d strov ing t h"i;-- r.i s .f d-llits' ui.r'ii f proper: . I s .o ., .,, t : v . -.-lie tenth i t !: r-v : :. ' - a I t ' e hanks of in. r. . .- .,, . ,. r. :, -.- , th- pr. sen' t.:i .-. I'L p. . k. r a: 1 V, , lak. s. p...4-k .o,.:., and th- of - r ! i i ' le iakes 'lit f : . r.ti a r - h t ' lo-.n loit a 1 ;o'-.s :-i -' . I .. . j more than o'l.-e ! n , !ar hike. I i W .ls to r. !o e ; ., s; ,1 j d js .1 ' . ', I .l.-irdati that the s.irpl : s a rial i 1 j Hat ttie canal is praef i.-all v n-. a' I '1; resent time. ;is i' js .'lino.-.- . !; h' o I v. ith d; ,ng s-,-,., ,,. 1 v - . ' a ; ' . Pa vis was a k I a ' ? -g : ' t ree-i.'.-d en.- ,,t the 'uh w t'.-r p: it g , and 'h- ..v. rt'o-.v i r .hot,:. i I erv dis:in.-:lv do I remember r. I than .re ,, .M-flow of f o r:vr hi J : 'if vprmg of iM I : -id a nn'' s.i.'lioa i which for "everal we, k I ket.t 1 near 'he present eorrer of Lii-: :i a u 1 , sev.-nt h V. s s' re. t. "More than once that spring I sailed j ! that boat over the piescnt site of the j Kio Grande depot. I ' ' T ne r. v er t s; . r eg v i s - . f of its bank-" tha i ivi- im; 11 wher the river wa. The ( , r. a : , j inke has been known t i r-e as rry . ... j sjx feef in one season. Whlh' I 1 i j Jo.-k f .r anv uch rise this . I |
