| Show RESERVOIR BREAKS water impounded iu in co op val y baun a overrun dam and escapes through tunnell quite an e excitement at waa ca caused it c wha saturday of afternoon to when word rd wa was brought I 1 from 0 the he co coop op valley be baaij that t the he reservoir as e do dam had a broken allowing the lie water to run ran through the tunnel recently y completed ni to tap tan the basin and to run on n awn to the parag paragonah Para gonah irish fields field flood ing ang a considerable portion of the cultivated land the melting snows had caused the reservoir to fill to over capacity and r run on over the dam which had been erected ahead of the tunnel sight to kee keep P the water back during t the he driving of the tunnel there being 2 no 1 0 w way ey of repairing the break the only fee feasible ble way to stop atop the rush of 1 water through vh the tunnel was to shoot sufficient dirt from above the mouth to close it th which ch necessitated a heavy charge of powder which had to be brought from cedar several hours boom elapsed between the commencement commer cement of 0 the break find and the closing of the tunnel the water stopped sometime during daring the early part of saturday evening eyed the water lowered about 8 inches leaving still ain in the reservoir about 6 feet covering about two hundred acre which is considered to be amply suRi cent for all purposes purples this year on the land that is 13 being prepared in ID the parowan carowan valley by the owners day and adams the do damage m age done to the para pala ronald gonah fields field is ie not so BO great as aa at first feared t the he alfalfa fields it IS ia believed will not be materially hurt and but a ver very Y few small patches of grain covered with mud |
