| Show to J IS Bott null anil he water corn pany box elder county GENTLEMEN it is a fact known to aud cau be demonstrated to all interested that there i a narrow strip of bench land through which yur proposed canal is now surveyed extending from J 1 wooda farm on the north to kobli arm ou the south of willard nearly three and one liala miles long it hea cleio 10 the leasa of the mountains it is nothing but a gravel bed hence it would have to be cemented the v hole distance much cf thia is now planted into orchard and berries it would be very expensive to obtain a right of way through it and furthermore there is a Fc arcely a year during the last twenty tour years past but that there has been in the month of july heavy storms accompanied with strong southwest winds carh me the low clouds to the eastward and depositing vast quantities of water upon the mountain sides this rushes with great fury down alie declivities bringing it hundreds of thousands of tons of rock and dirt that would till said canal in leaa than twenty minutes ot time from to 1000 feet wide and 10 feet more or less deep farher there is no one more than another that is secure from this freak of nature along the route of eaid distance last year the great forca struck opposite peter A Neb ekers estate and blended one mile north of J P woods farm there was enough abria brought with tho rushing flood at either place to have failed alm proposed canal I 1 have seen during my present residence of over twenty four 5 cars many such floods that would have tilled lucli canal in fifteen minutes and thirteen years ago on the of july at dead of night a terrific thunderstorm broke upon us that tore loose the hood gates of alie upper deep torrents of water descended from aobert II olmes to J 1 woods farms bringing million of tons of rock gravel and mud covering many acres of farms and bench land and orchards but it came and was over in about 40 minutes now gentlemen wo do not vi ant a jahue town disaster in willard and all talk about bridges with wings bulkheads or other dev ices is but sheer nonsense Bon sense against mountain slides or mud floods at uncertain places along this 3 miles of hillsides hill sides I 1 J N barler protest against a known treacherous element of destruction being built abobo my residence to endanger ma and mine As sure as the past catis trophies have left their impress so it follow in the future 1000 more or loss cubic feet of water per in u confined channel should its egress be suddenly stopped us bials tor one or more miles would ac ly ove illow ani the blessing ba turned into an engino of destruction to life and property from which there could bo no decapo word would have to be taken or cent to the bead gates forty live miles away and eien then the whole water would flow twenty four hours at least J N we the undersigner undersigned under signed citizen willard living directly under tho pt o posed canal have heard the protest of J N and e fully endorse and will sustain him in any action to prevent the canal being built abiva our homes PACER W A dalton josiv I 1 woon ROBERT hunu PE mattiL |
