Show crews working around the clock in E effort tto rt to curb rampant ant waters with property damage estimated in the millions of dollars and many pe persons esons evacuated from their homes morgan county is in a state of emergency attempting to a avert ve rt further damage caused by flood waters of rivers in fit this area with declaration by county and city officials of the existence of an ernei emergency gency in morgan county cole wilkinson of mt green pontiac conti actor and rancher was named director of the morgan county civil defense council with J IV williams of morgan as deputy director by tuesday approximately people haa bad been asked to evacuate their homes first to leave their living quarters were those persons living in cabins at como springs and later those living in it tile the lower lands near the river were advised of 0 the emergency and asked to evacuate A few families living in the lower lands of the richville porterville area also left their homes when water forced their evacuation highest since 1862 flood damage of the past month has been caused by abnormal flow of the weber river east canyon creek and their tributaries tributa ries resulting from heavy snows of the past winter at no time since 1862 has iun itin off oaf in this section reached such proportions for several weeks now farm lands have been flooded but not until this past week were homes and business property in immediate danger though it was forseen by many that weber river could not be confined to its channel unless immediate st steps eps were taken to strengthen river banks through and tilling filling work at the present time Is progressing on an around the clock basis with 12 dump trucks three bulldozers a patrol and two loaders working 21 hours a day in morgan city three trucks and a shovel are engaged in at peterson in an attempt to save property in that community in addition hunI hundreds reds ot of citizens and many pieces of private equipment are rushing work of halting flood waters present plans call for to begin at the head of the north morgan ditch companas comp anys intake and proceed along the south side of the river at the weaker points gate out saturday state highway crews lost one battle saturday when devils gate was nas klec lared closed to traffic at midnight closing of the highway at this point diverted transcontinental traffic on oil U S highway 30 S at echo and down parleys canyon to salt lake city this route and the main line of the union pacific railroad are now the only outlets for morgan county rear fear was expressed for a time as to whether railroad workers would be successful jn in saving the roadbed just ea east t 0 ot f devils gate excessive washing of the river brought waters within a few feet of the right of way and had it not been for timely with ith huge rocks this section ot of the ahr rall load would surely have been wished washed out danger spots declared as danger spots with crews crew a working frantically to strengthen them are the intake at the north morgan ditch company a point on the river at the rear of the J J johnson home caving of river banks at the fran francis cis mink farm and a point on oil the south side ot of the river just west of the old cea creamery I 1 mery at present nearly all residents continued to page 4 4 members at work on sandbag project v 16 rv at the spillway of the millrace in morgan city 4 S A 4 f A al ag iq naw f N water reached th the e h home 0 me of frank turner in west morgan hiffa water wate 0 0 41 continued from page 1 of the county have been able to travel from place to place though in many instances detours of several miles are necessary croy idon was isolated for a time when the bridge across lost creek was damaged it has since been repaired A few other areas also report isolation for short periods huge power shovels at the plant of the ideal cement company at devils slide have been working night and day loading huge rock on trucks transporting the material to morgan for and tilling filling channels local flood officials state that this gesture on the part of cement company officials has aided greatly in halting flood damage normal operations normal operations at the cement plant are reported by A 1 hooton general manager who stated that shipments are going out by rail and truck and taij th the plant Is running without difficulty aside from basements filled with water the town of devils slide has not sustained damage the concrete bridge across weber river Is still intact due to vigilance of workmen the past two weeks in marding arding Ti the approaches bridge lut is carried on by employed emp loyes of the cement company state highway and railroad operation sandbag by monday approximately handbags had been tilled filled in moran city spearheaded Spear headed by norris ind burton nelson post veterans af f foreign wars several hundred persons including women and chil iren turned out for yeoman duy in the fight to preserve property 37 a the county saturday night so 60 ards of canca band brought by truck rom uintah was the first sandbag ing project on sunday the local FW post directed filling of bags om a pile dropped by the union acidic railroad many other in Ivi duals and groups joined the opera operations blons sandbag in preparing or the flood including a group of omen and children who sacked 00 bags for use at the rulon nulon scott nil homer francis residences huge trees in tie the city of moran ars are proving to be lifesavers life savers n the flood work they are d on dikes and in channels as alast tor for other materials crews f workmen have been busy on oil the ree telling felling project with tractor operators dragging them to strategic points housewives active housewives of morgan have played an active part in it the flood control work in addition to assisting with the tilling filling of sandbags sandbars sand bags kitchens lit chens were set up at various points and workers were fed near their jobs como springs bridge is still in place though the resort is almost completely underwater about half or of the morgan county fall fair grounds is inundated with tear fear that some of the exhibition buildings near the river may be lost despite efforts effort of a large crew of milton residents working all dayl day monday the highway bridge connecting milton and stoddard gave way at 1130 pm schools in session schools of the county were closed monday and tuesday and students and teachers assisted in the initial fight of flood waters on wednesday classes were held lu in a normal manner and school work will continue until such time as officials in charge of the emergency deem it advantageous to make a change we want twant to do everything possible to assist in this emergency emer geny supt bupt L W christensen said weld and it flood officials ask us to close clohe we will do so we feel eel that we are much better organized with school in session and it if help Is needed we can give it in a matter of minutes B U G johnson chief engineer of the state road commission was in morgan tuesday conferring with local flood officials on plans for control of waters and assisting in securing scouring additional addition ai equipment and manpower gasoline adequate gasoline supplies are adequate at the present time tor for all essential vehicles dealers report however it Is urged that unnecessary automobile travel ti avel be restricted due to the difficulty of getting supplies to morgan coupled with strikes in oil refineries flood emergency supplies only are allowed to pass picket lines at refining plants it is reported i salt lake and ogden new newspapers newspaper rs have been coning in by train though some deliveries have been made by air with small planes landing in neaily fields Sui supplies viles of natural gas have con tinned linued to flow in the main line of the Aloun mountain tain fuel supply co though some branch lines including the one to Ta garts camp in weber canyon have been washed out makes deliveries rural mail carrier albert C welsh has been able to make most of his regular deliveries he reports though in many instances he has been forced to detour to reach families call it fate it if you like but appearing peari tig at the morgan theatre last sunday and monday was the picture bend in the river elver working as hard as many and harder than most are the morgan telephone operators laboring under great handicap and strain uie the 10 operators on the local exchange have done an excellent job approximately long distance calls are completed daily according to mrs mildred S cammins Ham mins chief operator of the local exchange she urges that only essential calls be made during the emergency and that calls be limited to a maximum of three minutes children have been exceptionally good in realizing the need for essential telephone service mrs Hamn hammana ions said and have retrained refrained from making unnecessary calls plenty of food food supplies bup plies in morgan are adequate at this time trucks carrying staples and fresh produce reached morgan city tuesday via parleys canyon as the first food shipments reached the city since the closing of devils gate saturday night merchants predict no immediate shortages in most staple lines though fresh produce and bread may become scarce it if suppliers are not able to make deliveries in the event of isolation by wednesday morning merchants reported quite a run on flour sugar and canned milk it was pointed out that there Is no cause tor for alarm with respect to food as rail transportation can astl still 11 bring in ample supplies even it if the highway to the east becomes impassable morgan county furnishing a large quantity of 0 milk to lo the lower valleys alloys has been shipping loads normally carried by truck on the railroad |