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Show Floods Visit Town As Splendid Rains Cover The Valley Mt. Pleasant was visited on Friday Fri-day and Saturday cf last week by two splendid rainstorms, each of which brought a great deal of moisture mois-ture to partially compensate for the protracted drouth of the summei, which is declared by "old-timers" to be the worst on record since the community's founding seventy-five years ago. Gardens, lawns, flowers, . trees and ether shrubbery in town were vastly benefitted by the welcome fall of moisture, and orchards and field crops were also materially rejuvenated re-juvenated by the almost priceless storms. Mountain ranges too were observed to receive heavy downpours. down-pours. The storms were general through this part of the state. At the Gunnison Sugar factory .26 of an inch fell. Ephraim reported .86 of an inch, with nearly an inch and a third at the Ephraim Experiment Station. No official recording of the amount was made in Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, but we got cur share. In fact, so heavy was the rainfall rain-fall in Pleasant Creek canyon that floods came dewn both days right on the heels of the storms. Though they brought back memories of the destructive "big flood" of 1918, neither nei-ther Friday's nor Saturday's flood did a great deal of damage, being confined chiefly to the main channel chan-nel of Pleasant Creek as they roared roar-ed through town. Much debris in the form of rocks, mud and driftwood1 was swept thru the channel, some of it being diverted di-verted into irrigation ditches. Notified Not-ified ahead of time that the flood was coming, several hundred citizens citi-zens turned out to view the swirling vortex Saturday afternoon. The main force of the flood that ' day lasted for about three-quarters of an hour. A flood also came down Twin Creek Saturday, pouring quite a lot cf mud onto some of the lots and streets in the south section of town. |