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Show UNDERGROUND WATER CAUSES HILL JO SLIDE There is no little concern on tho parttorV-the farmers who Irrigate from tho Logan and Hyde Park canal as to when they can get water down their canal and how much longer the sliding of gravel Into the canal will continue as the result of underground water rising to the surface near the llurtlcson homo on canyon road. The slldo camo down Into the canal last Friday night. All day Saturday, Sunday Sun-day and Monday men have been at Work", trying to combat with tho sliding slid-ing gravel in order to repair tho canal. ca-nal. The situation Is a bad one and will cost the canal company considerable money beforo tho trouble Is finally settled. Tluj wholo hill sldo seems to bo saturated with water. There may bo othor slides reported. There was some contention that the water was coming from tho stato dam, but wo havo been Informed that Engineer Hay West ran a line of levels to tho dam from the point where the water Is flowing from tho hill and has determined de-termined that the water level' In tho dam is lower than where the wnter comes out of the hill. |