Show THE HIGH the lait three days day have bare brought down from the canyons canyon ao an immense quantity of 91 waters water and ana the wont Is ie already there has baa been a not yet groat great deal of t land flooded although the have bave been kept fairly well within their banat but unless there la Is ft a check alleck to the steadily itea dily increasing the next few gays aay may baue serious rlou inundations in various auth south and went of the city A storm form now would aggravate the he situs uon greatly by weeping sweeping down from the mountains a quantity ot of debris that shag would oane cause damaging floods flood one means if bf relief would be a slight falling in the temperature and the cee alon on of 1 I worm warm broe broesel see so 0 o as ae to give time for much of the water now antho valley to find its if WRY way through regular channel ob anneli to the lake there is no question that hat the beet beat mat bat can be has been and to li being loae dome to carry off tue toe water with be means meane liow BOW at hand the city water mosser hami baa cleaned out an all the ditches sad aad keeps keepe big force actively engaged la in guarding guardi nit ol every probable emergency but there is a limit to the gibe in bit bin departie depart me t with ahe theme means ani at his disposal he basno put pot more water into the eanar than ghan they win will hold and with both anal and river lull the he best beet possible falte of hta him efforts will have been reached that point li Is close 1 hand already it requires ulrea the vigilance to repair canal banko and to remove bridges ald flumes blumes that offer slight alight obstruction but the river boa baa risen and in someplace gome places lie is on the verge of going over its bankd bank in the northwestern part ot of the city known as center ward there are n nw w hundreds hun dreas of soree under water while some morne trouts trauls oi 01 land to the south have entered he be same ame category within the past twenty four our hours the existing conditions give a practical illustration as to the only way opeo open lor for the city to guard again i 1 floods floour and the members of the cou li oil ought to spend a day examining the various localities and looking lot the situation for or themselves taz r would be no difficulty th 01 about reaching a conclusion tiit state of off allaire airs now existing in me be northwestern part of town shoat the uselessness of the proposed crait cagial irom from first south to ninth north trout street that it w uld be a wase wae e of money tu to spend it on that while that bat state elate of affairs taken it in connection with what exists in the ali southwestern part of town shown bowa that a canal clear across the western part pan the city would not fill 1111 the bill tu tat only relief and one that would be entirely effective is ia to open the be surl curi lut lu canal so 0 o an a to relieve the river oba no nel done and the difficulty would be met it would not be a 0 aft cult now tor for eaon each councilman to have bv demonstrated demo nitrated the fact that the surplus canal li Is the abe key to the situation |