Show FLOOD BENEFIT TO FARMERS water left fine silt of good earth on impoverished lands in washington deoro woolley Woo lloy wash A fine silt 0 of f very fertile earth layer ayer from two to five indies inches feel deep was left on the inundated farin lands when alien tile hooded flooded skagit river subsided to its regular channel clinn net the layer of silt tin anil added great affront value to the lie bality lands antis according to owners tle the loud flout which was the alie most extensive known here since the early hoine homestead stend days lasted froni from cel kelliber liber 10 until tile lie li middle liddle of jana a ry the rise of tile river was attribute attrib utO to 10 torrential torrent lm downpours down pours in ili tile foot hills ani mountains through which tit tin sk I 1 agit hows I 1 ws the heavy train ruin amounts otti of rich top toil soil fron tile hills into the flood anil till all this material ans curried carried into tile thu and deposited |