Show ESTIMATE OF WATER SUPPLY IN SEVIER Pan gultch valley loss cha chance co to for r high water than last year but pr primary should probably it hold old up 1111 as well as last year panguitch Pan gultch lake should supply moro mor 0 water than last year as it la Is now GB 65 feet higher than a year ago and within 3 feat of last year s high water marln markl Circle valley sanie same applies as to to P Pan gultch itch valley richfield valley mors more decree supplies for companies depending on oil otter creek storage and class A rights will average from 70 to 76 75 per cent of last seasons supply I 1 y class 11 I 1 and class C rights wt will I 1 I 1 probably get some rome water but it will bo be bucl less than last year rocky rord ford canal sato to figure on anio me as last season with a boott chance tor for a small email increase increate higgins decree class A should mn samo same as loat last season with a cannee to bo be better classes n B 0 6 D 14 and receive none sevier bridge storage samo saine as aa last season koaton aero acre feet pluto plute storage 1000 acre feet primary and any high water that comes after april I 1 plus 2000 aero acre feet storage on hand at present all of above predictions based on snow cover as of 0 april I 1 and precipitation oct I 1 to march 31 storms after april 1 will better all excepting sevier bridge storage at orage BRICE MeB mcbride TUDD water commissioner sevier river CARBON MOUNTAIN CONT RUMBLING JOURNEY TO RIVER creeping peak near durango attracts attract nationwide attention moves as a much dirt in day as a team steam shovel could handle in years durango colo carbon mountain that restless outlaw peak three miles south of 0 hero here which for tho the lost last three months has re gated citizens ot of southwestern col orado with its geological antics staged its most recent spectacle last tuesday when it emulated mount vesuvius and belched great clouds of smoke and dust to tho the accompaniment of deep rumblings gs and the roar of crashing boulders bowl ders dors saturday old carbon continued its steady movement toward the animas river great fisser in the sides aides ot of the peak widened occa signally Blo sio nally a ledge ot of rock tumbled from the cliffs while oak brush and cedar trees were crushed be neath nea th the rolling mass the mountain gained nationwide attention late last december when citizens first noted its strange be Bi li aylor arlor disintegration of the peak at first alarmed citizens of du who feared that the moun tain might engulf the city engl engi neora assured them however tha that tile the action apparently was limited to the immediate region of carbon mountain on jan 5 6 a new fissure appeared on another mountain on the john conway ranch 12 miles east ot of carbon which geologists concluded clouded was a continua continuation don of tho the carbon faulting Sel several veral days later old carbon again accelerated its movements and the chief fissure widened 22 inches in 24 hours on that occasion the he me at claimed a human life tom conway 21 was standing on the brink ot of the slide when the rim rock gave way and he was wag carried almost feet et down the moun ta Inside sunday crowds which witnessed the accident gasped but conway miraculously escaped with bruises then the mountain quieted down tor for A time the movements continued however and engineers estimated that 35 85 million tons tona of rock were included in the traveling mass on march 8 activity was waa ln in creased and the mass began moving at the rate of 19 inches an all hour toward the animas river hundreds of fissures appeared on tho the moun tain the mesa verde c broke up into great pieces ono one engineer estimated that a moving one ton of 0 shovel st steam earn tock rock every 30 seconds would re r quire years to equal the task accomplished by nature in 24 21 hours houra last sunday a trem dous explosion rocked the aides aldea 0 01 the mountain durango citizens hurrying to the scene sw a glint glanb new fault about feet fiot long near the top of the mountain which lad had been opened by the blast geologists believe that the ox ex was caused bj the igniting of a huge gas pocket in a subterranean ter coal bed Sulp sulphurous hurdus turnes issuing from rom the crevices sui ported parted the theory A similar or 1 occurred tuesday the mountain now nov has a huge buge pit about the area of bt a city block near its ita peak the formation at this point has hag sunk fifty feet boo low the level of the upper sand band stone strata what the peak will do ne next at no go one knows |