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Show lally If water Is still in the old channel, chan-nel, but these places seem to be pretty well taken care of. I A SCARE. ' IM-Ita had sometblng of a scare last Wednesday when the ditch rider came down and said the main canal at Jeffrey's fill. Just below the old dam. . was going out. Teams and scrapers were hurried to the scene and by 2 o'clock nearly twenty im-n and teams were at work. The break was not as serious as was thought at first. The bottom of the canal bank, where It crossed the old river bed, had slid out !vwlng to the quick sand and mud below. be-low. The bank had cracked off and more cracks were showing. The water was lowered about two feet, the cracked bank was dug away and In t ' few hours it was all filled In and was ' strorger than ever. The ga'es were ' then opened and no one suffered any ' shortage of water. It is remarkable h IniM-rvious Ihese clay banks are to wjter. Itelow the level of the water and on'y a few reet from the canal the banks were as dry as the road. Of course, if tin-water tin-water once gets over the banks It !!' luickly wash them out, but there I p never ary danger of the water aosklng a .trough them. There must also be a ide bank wherever the canal crse be treacber u old river bed, espec |