| Show FLOODS DO MUCH DAMAGE two towns in wayne county washed out plan formulated for providing homes for people of the stricken towns the past summer was the most disastrous for the failers and fruit growers I 1 in the eastern part of wayne wayna county thit has been experienced since the settlement of that region there ire are orly three or four towns or settlements in that section of the st eft t the land is a rich sandy loam of sufficient depth to make fruit raising profitable the waters of the fremont or dirty devil river was the source of irrigation and the few settlers there were well content with conditions until the floods of the pat pait summer descended and swept away their entire means of irrigation while all parts of bitah suffered to a greater or less extent in the matter of floods the people of the eastern part of wayne seem to have had more than their hare gainesville Caines ville and giles are the chief huffer ers the dams in the fremont river were swept away and the roads were practically destroyed in places the ille latter calamity would have amounted to little to the people 2 aa 21 1 them the can always manage to travel but the destruction ot of the only means of giving life to the soil the irrigation system leaves the people of these to towns facing starvation as thes the have not the means at their command to rebuild the dams and canals president bastian of wayne stake and his counselors aie deeply concerned in this matter as the towns named come under their jurisdiction they visited the places re ra CL bently and when conditions were explained hey bey advised the people to abi abandon idon the towns for the present it diab up to the stake presidency to find a alace upon which these people could bettle and still remain within the stake the big mansfield Mars neld ranch lying near Tc abdale was for sale and the stake officials offic idla decided that if this could be purchased it would be a good place for the founding of anew settlement the pur purchase chabe price of the ranch comprising SOO acres of good lani was placed at on the visit of president smith to that vicinity last week the matter was put pui up to 0 o him and he consented to did aid in the purchase of the ranch for the people who had baen washed out by the fl ada ds at hinesville Laines aines ville and giles chis promised to be an easy solution from the difficult situation after fter receiving promise of aid president bastian proceeded to unfold the plan to representatives from giles and gainesville Caines ville who were at conference these representatives were not as enthusiastic as was expected and they stated that the people had been considering the matter of abandoning the towns very seriously since the visit of the stake officers and they had bad almost concluded to make an effort to rebuild their irrigation rnea tion a 8 stem stein and save their towns A plan had been proposed prop obed by to secure ice this winter and bury it in their ards adi so as to give life to their fruit trees for the coming summer and with the products of their orchards they could subsist aneil ll 11 such times as their dams would be rebuilt and irrigation secured this decision displays display s a lot of pluck ard determination but whether it will succeed or not is a question in the mena time further negotiations for the mansfield ranch are suspended until the people of the two bt stricken ricken towns have fully determined what they will do the stake presidency hii hig an option on the rinch and if present plans fall through they will give lve up the idea of the purchase of the big ranch |
