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Show PREPARING FOR FLOOD WATERS I Chairman J. T. Barker, of the street :om mil too of the council. Is busily encaged en-caged Juat now preparing to protect city properly from the sewer maina on lower Twenty-first street near tho banks of the river. Tho city council has authorized immediate action. Asslstaut Superintendent Thomas Fitzgerald of the Southe rn Pacific company com-pany has tendered free of cost to the engineering department of tho city three carloads of rock that are withlu 800 feet of the place where the river bank needs to bo reinforced to save the pipe. Thero aro about 100 tons of rock there, almost enough, it Is stated, to make the necessary breakwater. The water has already washed the river bank away, to the extent that tbe water la running to within a few feet of the sewer plpo, and it Is stated by the engineer that If something Is uot done to check Its mad career In one hour's tlmo tho flood water could wash the pipe Into the river. |