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Show I'::!W put dam in the Little Colorado River. a , "': .'. put in conmenced to While 'some . '\ '. gether, \ .. .. wheat .... work water was 'got i-" and planted, corn 1 out' rains liThe fall Lhem, on I plowing; were I , and • £. [r All worked. to,::_.,. d and ate at together, 0theat> sown, and I a 60 tout \ potatoes and gardens. The some 'J , ;'_ anel" o' tre (1'9th) which July, of July it washed _ I _., one . about the 15th of b:egan down freshets brought acres L _ of 'I.. .• * dam out." our was timber and rock. sown. was prosions bout, 50 a was acres I' ", [ -- '''There I . " L' table, ; ' .. some our .: if I put I cottonwood, , and ', . the dam others ', Jrd of April the on .: ... building were 28th, On the ' .• J. dam of a ,,, - f I I ! i I 'of Allen's' darn in I j I seems I - .1.! III stated clearly • • by F .. G. Lit t:re},Co']orado ::Mission" Nielson in his • Nielson I , .\", 0 "History of the ,', st.at emerrt of the s .: !'..i. l ,.,,'. matter reads:-- JThe .dams placed, in the J river ere .frequently t I 'daged .by very .. , floods. high flood Obed ,» ani .came ",;, There ',J Obed; dam On this date and, (Sept, 17, '1876), swept away t.he much, damaged. Sunset,' and ' :, to be seems ,l. no and s I '4 a' Ballinger's." ,: , {: i j,, Allen and -nor of re-alignment of ditches to match another near the first. Was the first dam but partly " • " ',', ) -dam of Allen "i, ImyONSTRUCTlON oT tne aam at meion <, in n I .. I· • not mentioned . The loss of the dam , but it is in the Allen manuscript; \... .... July, 1876. • .) July, 1876; .. and temporary sufficient water supply? repairs Nielson's the loss to both Allen and Obed is September 17th,is timely for a taken out , )' made to furnish an in- ,I' statement definite; heavy flood. relative to and the date, |
