Show r LUC LUCIN CUTOFF AND STORMS The rhe Lucin Lucia cutoff on Monday got the tIle worst that it h ever eve has had When it was f s shaking l lpg p built lt th lake was at a very low stage so low lOv th that t public meetings were held in different places m in methods by which part of ol the the th state to devise la lakes s could be saved especially Great Salt h lake ke and Utah lake The cutoff was built anticipating a a a reasonable re rise ris in water but not nearly so much muchas as has pas come At Lt that time it was pointed out th that t would have havo to be unusually the great bridge strong because Salt Lake waves are vastly more solid tha than the waves of the sea When they strike anything they strike more like a solid body than thana a liquid It Tt t ms on l IOl Monday day two storms were raging th the from tho o south and one from fromi the vcr ver or J lake one north It was the north porth storm that struck the cutoff cut cut- off while the s south uth storm blew lew all the water away from the Western Pacific tracks here at the south southend e end l lf and Il l the th theory of the experts is that those two two storms met BlOt somewhere in iii the center of the lake lak and nd not being able to go down or go ahead they di did wh what t the Frenchman did not do last Saturday Sat Sat- into the air Our idea is that c they y they went up il from the cast east drove both off over the desert Now if that storm had been all from the tl h anti and in ill the ninety miles sweep of the lake ha had lifted up the waves so that the they would have Struck that that cutoff from the south no one knows vh l jt t have hap happened t 7 We WO believe the engineers have about concluded 1 the only l way to make mke the cutoff safe in a r greit c t torim or is tio to o build breakwaters on either side sided and d when the amount of oI consid- consid 1 l c lf thai t will le necessary for t that at they almost i f 1 recoil before tile the hc prospect However those storms 1 to l not come V very ery ry oft often n and the old Ot road oad is still T We J believe cv intact around th the lak so that th there re close of oC traffic But the tile is no danger of a long up I people who saw the storm storm on Monday on i ay began b gan to tomake make up their their minds that the Meadow i valley wash was wasa a baby b by comparison |