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Show BeaverCloudburst Reports Appear Greatly Overdone Reports of cloudbursts and floods in the Beaver "mountains Wednesday afternoon created more or less excitement but, luckily, ther was little basis for the wild rumors and the net results of the ' scare were several hundred acre feet of additional water in the Minersville reservoir, a good soaking soak-ing for Beaver mountain and bench lands and the undermining of some roads and bridges in Beaver canyon. can-yon. Rents lake, which was reported report-ed to have gone out and taken all the smaller lakes below it, was unaffected un-affected by the storm or resulting floods. The storm seems to have centered center-ed over upper Merchant valley and the Merchant valley bridge was taken out though the Telluride dam in that valley was not injured in any way. The brunt of the accumulating waters struck heaviest in the lower low-er part of the canyon, where considerable con-siderable repair wbrk will ibe necessitated. ne-cessitated. Authoritative report has it that 1200 second-feet of water poured out of the canyon for a full two hours, followed by a flow of 170 c.f.s. for the next five or six hours. Only light showers have fallen in the vicinity of Milford during the past week. |