Show A PROTEST FROM WILLARD last week the municipal officers of ogden signed a contract with J B R both well company to supply the J unction junction city with water from the big pear bear river biver canal now comes the following open letter to the company presenting a barrier in the way of carrying out the contract in the manner that was proposed WILLARD box elder county july 1889 gentlemen it is a fact known to hundreds and can be demonstrated to all interested that there is a narrow strip of bench land through which your proposed canal is now surveyed survey ed extending from J P woods farm on the north to robt holmes farm on the south of willard nearly three and one half miles mile long irlies it lies close to the base of the mountains it is nothing nothing but a gravel bed hence it would have ave to oe cemented the whole distance much of this strip is now planted into orchard and berries it would be very expensive to obtain a right of way through it and furthermore is scarcely a year during the last twenty four years past but that there has been in the month of july heavy thunderstorms accompanied with strong southwest winds driving the low clouds to the eastward and depositing vast quantities of water upon the mountain moun sides this rushes witti with great fury down the declivities bringing with it hundreds of thousands of tons of rock and dirt that would fill said gaid canal in less than twenty minutes of time from to 1000 feet wide and 10 feet more or less deep further there is no one spot more than another that is secure from this freak of nature along the route of said distance last year the great force struck opposite peter A Neb ekers estate otate and extended one mile north of J P woodys woods farm there weis was enough debris brought with the rushing flood at either place to have filled the proposed canal I 1 have seen during my present residence of over twenty four years many such floods that would have filled such canal in fifteen minutes and thirteen years ago on OB the of july at dead of night a ter terrific rifle thunderstorm broke upon us tiff that P ta ao A the P 0 od gates grof of the ibe upper p af dp deep torre torrents Z ok of water wafer descended irom from robert bolmes tol mes 1 to J robert P woods forms farms br bringing aging millions of tons of rock gravel and mud cov covering trIng many acres of farms arid and bench land and orchards but it if came and was olef over in 40 minu teil now gentlemen we do not want a johnstown disaster jp ip wizard willard and aird all talk about bridges fridges with wings bulkheads or other devices is but sheer nonsense a agans a n s t such e hamou mountain nw n slides or mud tb abdis allun uncertain certain places alon along t these ese t three red and a half miles of hillsides hill I 1 sides 1 J N X barker protest protect against a known know treacherous element of destruction st being built above my residence to endanger me and mine As sure as the past have hase left their impress so would it follow in the future with 1000 more or less cubic feet of water per second moving in a confined channel should its egress be stid denly stapled stopp sto pled edits its banks for one or more r mites aile would quickly overflow andi and the blessing intended would be turned into an engine of destruct to life and property from which theria could be no escape word would have to be taken or sent i to the head gates fates forty five miles away and ana even then the whole water would flow twenty four hours at ai least J N BARKER we le the unde under undersigner undersigned signed i ed citizens of willard ja ifa living yu directly ire I 1 atly under the prope proposed canal have heard tho the protest or of J N X hiarker li barker arker and we fully endorse and will sustain him in any action to prevent the canal being built above our homes GEORGE FACER W A talton DALTON JOHN P WOOD J IREN BENJAMIN arzi TAYLOR 1 huilt ROBERT HOLMES ELIHU PETTI GEILL |