| Show i SEES DANGER I FROM RAIN IN FLOOD AREAS Ca Canyon yon Not 1 Entirely Safe Says Expert I Another rainstorm of ot practical practical- practicality ity ly the sam same Intensity will I bring another another flood similar to toI I tho last one ona In both and In canons can ons and wilt will be likely to cause much damage duo duoto duoto duoto to the amount ot of debris that wilt will willbe willbo bo be carrl carried d along and finally de- de deposited de deposited posited In the i alleys This was the statement st mado yes yes- yes yesterday by r S Baker forest ex- ex examiner ex examiner who accompanied by Pro Pro- Professor Pro Professor fessor J H If raul Paul of ot the ot of Utah his s returned an In- In Inspection In Inspection trip during which Farm Farm- Farm Ington Ington can on was examined from Its mouth to the divide separating Mud creek and Whipple creek bothof both of o which discharge Into FarmIngton nn Th They also visited the tha watersheds ot of American rork Fork canyon migra- migra migratIon tIon canon can on Red Butte canyon and City Creek canyon in all 1111 of ot the latter canyons and on tho the water water- watersheds sheds adjacent to them there Is Dot ot nearly tho the amount of ot In evidence that Is found on the watersheds of boW boUt l Farmington and WIllard canyOns he ha said and the tho ro til th of ot vegetation is la much heavier In the canyons visited and In- In Inspect in excepting e the and Willard canyons Mr Baker saId that In his opinion there thero wasa A ground round covering of ot eget to prevent pre ent floods under rainfall conditions such as resulted In th the Farmington and Willard sections GO INDICATIONS INDIC He Re pointed out that the tho rain gauges at showed that durin the tha storm that was fol- fol followed followed fol followed lowed by tho flood lood one ono and three three- three tenths tenths inches of ot rain had fallen In the Immediate vicinity of ot Farm Farm- FarmIngton Farmington Farm ton Ington Calculating the rise shown at lake he be saId Eald that the evidence pointed to practically the same amount of ot rain at the head of ton Farming canyon anyon Fur Fur- Further Further Fur Further ther on In the same direction the rain gauges showed that the rUn run- rain rainfall fall tall was as not near so BO heavy y and at Morgan organ during the storm only hundredths hundredths fifteen of an Incho ot of ofrain ofrain rain fell He Re pointed out that In City Creek can on out of Salt Lake and at Its head the weirs and the rain gauges showed that approximately the tho alme amount of rain had fallen There was no flood however ho due to the ground in rn that section being well covered with Ith veeta tion ibich ich Impeded tre water ater after It fell and allowed the greater grater Irr por por- por- por tion Lion portion of ot It to sink Into the ground O Mr r Baker and Professor Paul a of pictures of tho at which how along the ridges forming the tho natural pathway th p ay fo- fo to sheep and cat cat- cattIe cattie cat cattle tIe tle the ground has hns been overgrazed to such an tent extent that In many places It Is nothing more than a aast avast ast dust heap Another cause ha said lId for tor it being bela- practically de- de denuded denuded de denuded of ot vegetation of ot all kinds were wert th th- th number of fires tires that had burned over large acreage clearIng them of ot all alt vegetation A largo large number of photographs of the areas In question were taken whIch show where here the rainfall be- be began began be began gan small whIle comparatively small at their i f larger became larger and larg- larg larg er as they are followed down the mountain side SOURCES OF OP FLOOD disastrous The two main sources of the dis- dis dis flood at h ha pointed out out were Whipple creek and Mud creek both of which ala als- charged charged the load of debris they had gathered up on their heir th lr downward course Into Farmington proper canyon This debris he be said piled up at Intervals forming dams darns across the canon on only to give way ay as the water behind them began bacling up lip A series of these dams was formed and broken again he saId ItIl the mouth ot of the tho canyon was waa n and ana the he debris swept swept down upon the town Though a portion of the canyon Is la cleared near Its mouth at present he said eald that the natural forces are ire now repeating the Process that led to the k arm Jarm u j-u A ington flood and the tho Willard flood lood The walls of the Innumerable gul gui gui- rul-illes rul lies Illes are aro crumbling and the tho gullies are aro being filled Vi Ith debris of Ot ot of various 1 kInds whIch a again would be washed out and carried iu down Into Inta Willard can cam on and Wil- Wil Wil lard canyon In the event ot of another heavy Y rainstorm or of the same In- In CAUSE OP or FLOOD The direct cause causa of the tho floods Is to Isto be found he said sald eal In ln the serious ly overgrazed and over watersheds at the head Dead of Ot Farm Farm- FarmIngton Ington and Willard canyons He expressed sed the tho opinion that S J o Jr-o u Alter AH In charge of the tho Salt RAke X-ako Weather bureau was correct in his hl published state state- ment meat statement to the thc effect that the same amount of dirt cannot wash out ot of the Willard Wilard mouth of ot and Wil- Wil Wil lard canyons but he added that ho he could not agree with Mr Alter Altor that another serious flood might not oc- oc oc cur occur In the tho event that there was waa a rainfall over the tho same othe area aren and or o the same intensity such as had re- re suited re In the recent floods |
