| Show continuation and extent of the flood r it has been call cail ed by that name been known lobe as h gh as aalt asit it is at the present time three or four feet between the rapids and its confluence with the big cottonwood and below lelow the mouth of that tributary it is spread out far and wide having hasing more the appearance pf af a lake han thian ban of a river the water has been rising gradually during the past week at the rate of from two to four inches per day caused not so sa much by the rise of its tributaries tributa ries as by the rushing of the waters from U ah lake which is said to be some four or five feet higher than can be shown by the diary of the oldest settler in that vally valley the unusual outpouring of its waters within the last few sew days dayn has been teen caused by the prevalence of south winds winda had the wind strongly from the north a much less volume of water would have been discharged within the same length of time the provo prove according to becea reports is the only river in U ah valley not on the w wane n e and all the streams in this valley vailey ha have ve bee a diminishing slowly for the last ten days excepting 1 a city creek and big a and ll 11 bitic tle tie cottonwood the two lat la t had bad subsided a little before the recent showers and excessive warm weather which brought them up again higher 0 than before they will become le less 31 sho raly the common course of thi things rigs but the jor jordan da n c cann a n n ot onte onse V e expected to 1 i is banks till til the waterson water waters bot bof of utah latah lake like shall be materially lessened the damage occasioned by the overflowing of the streams particularly of the jordan is ia or will be almot almost incalculable the vast meadows on OD either alde bide of the river from the rap ds to the lake from which most of the bay hay in this valley has heretofore been obtained are and will be su submerged biner ged till after the usual haying season wi I 1 be past palt many fields that were planted and sown bown which were considered cons dered above high water mark are flooded and the coups destroyed aud and in divers ways have losses accrued which cannot soon be repaired the north cottonwood in davis dasis co coonly by its overflowing has caused much damage to farms on the bottoms am among on the most fertile lands in deseret and some of the smaller streams in that county have spread destruction to a confide able ebent in weber county many farmers hay hav lost tar their entire crops as stated the weber webe and ogden rivers having contributed f their daters caters aters to w many of the broad acres that have been fenced and cultivated tor lor years producing annually annu illy thousands of of bushels of grain box elder and cache counties cannot have been overflowed to 0 any great extent and in the latter vast quantities of hjelt ghent oats and alid barley will IP y be produced nj general gereral famine is anticipates in consequence of the great floods but there are many farmers in weber and great salt sait lake co unties counties and some soane IN i davis who will alil not raise laise their own bread and will have to purchase c it from those cultivating c lands which the waters have not noi overflowed |
