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Show THE FLOOD MENACE. Now ithat the election is settled and the war is over, local matters should be taken up at once. That more floods will come out of Pleasant Creek canyon, no one doubts. The problem then is, "How is the best way to control the floo'dB, or minimize their distruc- tion?" The writer still believes the plan suggested at the mass meeting and outlined is the best solution yet offered, and he is ready to discuss it In private or in public, and will gladly accept a better plan if one is submitted. The writer regards this flood menace men-ace of too much importance to be left to city councils to dispose of solely and alone. The people should vote on a matter of so much consequence to the whole town, otherwise one council may build and another tear down as has been done in the past. The question of how to handle these summer floods should be publicly dis-cusssed, dis-cusssed, with the view of finding the best way of averting further damage and danger. Then select the best plan and vote on it and settle it once and for all. " With these thoughts uppermost in the mind of the writer this suggestion sugges-tion is submitted: Let the City Council offer a prize for the best miniture concrete plan of minimizing the danger and destruction destruc-tion of Pleasant Creek canyon floods. This prize merely to cover cost of making a model of the winner's idea. This should be done at once and work started without delay. It may be that the city is short on funds. If so, this need not stand in the way of getting things going on a matter of so much consequence to every man, woman and child in the city. Men will work there and take the city's I O U to apply on 1919 taxes. Hire men and teams by the hour and start on the job at 9 a. m. and quit at 4 p. m. Six hours of well planned and systematic work with a good force will accomplish wonders in three weeks or a month. If you don't think so, go look at Chester's reservoir, built mostly in late fall and early winter. These floods concern the people above and below town almost as much aa the people in town. And unless the city, .mill, irrigation company and railroad take the matter up, the people along the creek should follow the example of the city and throw up embankments to protect their property, and pass the floods on to-the to-the next fellow below. But why-treat why-treat the effect when the cause can be cured so easily and permanently by uniting at the right place and time? To continue inactive on a matter of such vital interest to a whole community com-munity is nothing short of a crime. ; Months have passed and nothing of a lasting nature has been accomplished. accomplish-ed. Unless these floods are coutroled above town, all the time, energy and money spent in cleaning out the channel will be worse than wasted. The property owners east of town, if the city has worked out its salvation, salva-tion, should protect themselves and their interests and devise ways and means to keep the floods in the channel. chan-nel. - Meet and get busy this fall. So sure as another summer will come, so certain will there be floods, big or little no one can say. Prepare nowi A. C. CANDLAND. |