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Show A. C. CAN DLAM) PRESENTS PLAN 1'OK SOLVING FLOOD TROUBLES The more 1 study tlte results of the big flood tile more 1 am convinced that Hoods issuing from Pleasant Cieek canyon can be controlled. And the marvel is, why hasn't it been done years ago? Or, why was 1 the right start torn out and not com-' com-' pleted? The solution to this flood menace is so simple and natural ' that it is a great pity that we must '""'be lashed into action by a disaster that no amount of work and money ! can repair. But the saddest thing of the whole catastrophe will be the delay or failure to take immediate ' steps to prevent another such dis-tructive dis-tructive deluge. If one will go up on the hill about a quarter of a mile west of the city spring, he will see how easily all the rockti and timber could have been held on less than forty acres of ground while the water and thin mud could have gone on to the river without doing the least bit of harm. Moreover, that flood would have been a valuable as":et to the city and 'vacinity instead of a great loss. Now, I maintain that if the wedge had been left in the channel as con-, structed some twenty years ago, and there had been loose rock dikes built to the hills on each side of the creek and then chanels cut to lead the water back into the old bed, we would now be regarding floods with little or no uneasiness. If there is any doubting Thomases, just come up and see and be convinced. con-vinced. But, don't delay, get in action at once. Treat the cause and the effect will take care of itself. Forty acres of land and 3 0 days work with 20 teams and 30 men will handle the flood waters for this season. Then this fall more work can be done and the "Diamond in the Rough" or a dam can be mad sub-stancial sub-stancial and perfected year after year and become a structure of priceless price-less value to all concerned for all time. These floods effect the "morale" of the community like a great defeat effects an army. Therefore, every man, woman and child is virtually interested in preventing flood dis-truction. dis-truction. A. C. Candland. |