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Show UNION PACIFIC PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION ON CONSTRUCTION OF FLOOD DRAIN DITCH; OFFICIAL HERE ON RIGHT OF WAY TITLES Definite action on the construction of a $50,000 drain ditch to protect Milford from cloud burst floods was indicated by the visit of John Sharpe, civil engineer, and representative of R. A. Adams, right of way and tax agent of the Union Pttcific, who spent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday here assembling the blueprints blue-prints made in 1929 and searching titles to land in the region of the m-onosed ditch. His visit was a direct result of the complaint filed with the railroad com- pany several weeks ago by Mayor Hubbel who protested the lack of adequate ade-quate flood protection for Milford, and stated that Milford citizens would hold trie Union Pacific responsible for any damage that would result from a second flood such as the one that inundated in-undated the town in 1929. Mr. Sharpe's visit was In response to Mayor Hubbell's protest and though he stated that he had not the authority to assure the people of Milford Mil-ford that the ditch would be built, nevertheless he could give his unofficial unoffic-ial assurance that if the right of way difficulties could be settled the work of construction would be begun soon. Immediately after the flood of 1929 when hundreds of dollars of damage resulted to Milford property. The Union Pacific sent surveyors to in vestigate conitio'ns. These officials drew up blue prints of a proposed ditch that was to be some two hundred feet in width, start at the Big Wash where the cloud bursts occur and passing pass-ing to the south of the aviation field empty in the Beaver river. Such a canal would carry the waters north of town instead of allowing them to follow fol-low the Frisco branch as far the main lir.e of the railroad and then be hurled upon the main street of Milford as occurred oc-curred in the last flood. According to Sharpe, the work was abandoned in 1929 because 'of the excessive ex-cessive prices demanded by the land owners for the right of way for the ditch. On his visit here the. early part of this week he made a trip to Beaver to look up the titles on the land in question and after getting the necessary neces-sary information left Wednesday to .'onfer with officials. |