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Show Wide Ribbon of Water Extends To Bottoms" Have you tried Milford's new Lake Shore drive? If you haven't you have missed an unique experience experi-ence and one that old-timers had figured never would recur, while newcomers, to be frank, found it hard to believe ever had occurred! To make the drive you take the old dump road just beyond the north end1 of Main street, drift eastward and parallel the tracks north toward the old five-mile dam. It isn't so hot as a road but you'll see more water than you ever dreamed would be there! This condition (and a nice mosquito mos-quito breeding condition it is, too) comes about through the release of surplus water from the Rocky Ford reservoir above Minersville. With most of the high water still to come and the reservoir several weeks ago reportedly holding more than enough for three irrigation seasons, it has been expedient to release as much or more water than is running into it. Except for the comparatively small amount now uitilized for irrigation, there is no place for the surplus to go but to follow the old river bed, long disused, and proceed slowly to the old "Beaver bottoms" section, mce the most productive section of Beaver county, by all reports. With far more water to take care of than the two large steel culverts installed some three or four years ago tp replace the old river bridge, it is now necessary for the water to run over the oiled surface of highway 21 for quite a stretch. Splashing through this four- to 12-inch sheet of water was quite a lark for motorists at first but the experience has lost some of it savor as the north side f the oiled surface becomes increasingly in-creasingly undermined. Many a notorist found the condition not to lis liking Tuesday, when, with a stiff wind blowing from the southwest south-west and waves more than a foot ligh going over the road and to right and left of him, he found limself dangerously close to the undermined side of the road. What is known as the Cates oad, leading out to South Milford, s in even worse condition. It has jeen water-soaked from over-full sorrow pits and is submerged at ne point near its junction with lighway 21. We have been told that Milford ot its name from the combination combina-tion of Beaver river ford and the )ld pioneer ore mill which was ocated here. And such is the cycle xe are going through: we have ;he ford again and many prom-ses prom-ses of mills, though not within :he townsite. |