Show I FIGURES SHOW LiTTLE LITTLE CANYON WATER LEFT Its It's no secret There just justi isn't i nt much water in the ditches these days We Ve talked to Vat Wal- Edgar Merriam 1 on Tuesday and asked if we could get some measurements of the flow He lie said Gosh there is hardly enough water to measure more I any y The canyon water came early i this year due to the early spring y The peak stream was on May 19 and 20 when a measurement of second feet was taken each S i. i day This is early for the 1 peak P F stream and much earlier water 5 r came down too early to help rt l r crops Merriam agrees with C Still Mr I with us that there are arc g goo good o o d crop crops s in many fields lIe He credits cre- cre i Bits this to the use of pumps V- V and to land which was too wet f v the past couple of years They fa tried to turn the Palisade Lake W 4 fir r water in last week but in two attempts had had ditch trouble j the stream off t and had to shut f f to make repairs Mr 1 Merriam 1 Y- Y said he was going to make anfe another an- an fe other attempt on Wednesday i r F In comparing this year with KT 1953 Mr Merriam gave us the following figures showing the 1 second feet of water measured measure on the dates indicated 1953 1954 2 June 15 Hi June 20 30 June juno 25 82 38 2732 June 30 24 2459 59 July 3 2389 t July 5 39 83 2300 On the morning of July 6 Mr 11 Merriam measured 1890 in the cnn canyon on stream This he sn says s 's is a n pitiful stream to try to t. t s over Oyer acres which come under the canyon lion tion system 1 1 |