Show this section of the country Is having great floods due to balna that started sunday roads are in a deplorable plo rable condition and mail service Is demoralized the storms started late saturday night with a very light tall of snow sunday night rain started and it has rained intermittently since being almost continuous the mall from the north that should have reached here monday night did not arrive until ap m tuesday and that is the last mall re calved here until this hour midday thursday the mall driver lamar pearce said there was tour feet of water in peters leap wash the other bide of bellevue and that seven cars were stranded there he returned with the outgoing mall and got as tar as peters leap where be Is held up it mas proposed to transfer the malls from one car to the other across the leap when it was found that the road this side of bellevue was washed out isolating the outgoing car the mall drivers are working like trojans to fix the road so that they may get through and the mall that have got in tuesday night Is expected to get here tonight it Is strange that during all this the county road commissioner bad not been on the job he bad not shown up there up till 9 this morning though the news understands be has since gone out the streams are swollen to an alarming extent tha virgin river is carrying one of the highest floods known and tears are expressed that the bridge between mosquito and will go out mesquite cannot be reached by phone owing trouble and the last word received from there was that the north approach was being washed away the santa clara is doing considerable damage to lands along its course land in the banta clara field being washed away also pigs chickens etc the rain ceased this morning but it is still very threatening while the rain is doing lots of damage it will bo of vast benefit to the range and farms |