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Show !' ----- - WHEN THE FLOODS COME. Two streams are Trying to break from their banks within the city of Ogden. but so far the rivers have been well confined and no -reat damage ; , has been done. With the drop In temperature tem-perature the flood menr.ee pusses But other places are not quite so fortunate as Ogden. Down in Loulsi ana the town of Jonesvillo is under hj four feet of water When a levee breaks ou the Mississippi, the country tor miles around is made a sea Whole districts in Texas are floode.l and lives have been lost and much properly destroyed. In Ogden the damage causeH by I he high water has been limited to place" which have been in the pathway of . very' overflow since the Mrs! settlers made their homes along the lowland of the Weber and Ogden rivers. One feature of the local flood is thai the great streams an- allowed to flovs on to Great Salt Lake and are no' held in storage to serve the purposes of irrigation. With dams on the riv ers. enough water could have been stored In twenty-four hours to have irrigated all the lands of Weber county coun-ty in the warm days or July and Au gust Some day the folly of failing to reservoir res-ervoir this water will be corrected, and i hen there will be no floods in the spring, but an abundance of water for j useful purposes in the heat of the summer. no |