| Show THE SPRING FLOODS the weather has been quite warm warn during the last two weeks the effect of which has been to dissolve the snow in the kenyons and on the mountains so rapidly that the streams are arc exceedingly high and overflowing 1 their banks inundating the low lands to no incon rid vid erable extent much aluch damage to bridges bridge xo jo ds daj and mills has already been sustained and shoud the weather continue warm for which the prospects are fair the work of instruction will continue to increase and many thousands of acres acrea of farming land in this valley will arill be overflowed and the crops Au destroyed troyed for for tor which there is no remedy the ahe jordan is high higar r than it has been before within the last eight years and sad in places has more the appearance of a lake than a stream particularly at uie ule toot foot at 0 tt molt st so far as beard from there here lias has been more mora damage done to the mills bridges dams and other improvements on dig big B kanyon creek than on any other stream flowing blowin into the jordan through gh great salt lake valley every dam dan and bridge from the mouth of the kanyon to the county road crossing that stream near the paper mill having been swept away amray and the roads badly dam ged aged as also many fields leids f between the county and state road over and through which the waters I 1 are flowed both af f gov youngs young s glist mills have ceased operations the thin dam of the upper one having havin been mashed cashed i out and the pond at the lower lower mill having havin X been filled up with mud and gravel brought a down by the force of 0 the flood no eftim estimate ate of the amount of damage thus far gu stainEd sustained in this county has been made but it will amount to several thousand dollars and unless the weather herbec bec bee mes maes a little cooler before many days the amount will be greatly in increased creased the ogden and weber rivers at ogden city are ora reported to be tery very li gb a ard d trave traveling liri north porth of that city in the direction dirc tion of box elder elden E ider lder has been entirely suspended us by the operations ot of the fload which has haa washed a away nay way bridges and otherwise damaged the joady so that it has been rei rel rendered dered impassable e the thie high water at provo PJ OVO is doing considerable damage to the farming lands and it is feared that if it continues to increase the river ivill will wili break over its banks and forma form a new channel chan nel nei through gh the lower of the part the city it y citizens are reported to 0 o be taking active measures rence nence to prevent such a a disastrous |
