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<br />00C611 <br /> <br />Feb. 3, 1938 <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />ARKANSAS RIVER AT HOLLY <br /> <br />FLOOD nISCHARGE OCTOBER 20, 1908. <br /> <br />Average seoond-foot disoharge Ootober 20, 1908 reoorded <br />as 125,000 seoond-feet. <br /> <br />The above discharge appears extremely high sinoe the next highest <br /> <br />reoorded maximum daily average seoond-foot quantity for the Arkansas <br /> <br />River at Holly is recorded as 59,500 seoond-feet on June 6, 1921 whioh <br /> <br />was the peak from the Pueblo flood of that year. <br /> <br />The state Engineer'S office reoorded the following in their latest <br /> <br />biennial report on the Arkansas River at Holly: "Maximum disohaq;e (l907-3h), <br /> <br />136,000 seoond-feet (slope measurement) Ootober 20, 1908 (gage height 11.0 <br /> <br />feet, fonner datum)." <br /> <br />In oheoking this reoord for Ootober 20, 1908 with L.T. Burgess, Chief <br /> <br />Hydrographer, he states that he believes this quantity of 125,000 seoond- <br /> <br />feet as the average disoharge for Ootober 20 is approximately oorreot,and <br /> <br />that this gage height a.nd measurement oorrespond with the long-time ourve <br /> <br />for the river gaging station on the Arkansas at Holly. <br /> <br />I ,t <br />I::' <br /> <br />Exoerpt from "Climatologioal Repor\;, Colorado Seotion," <br />U. S.Weather Bureau, Oct. 1908. <br /> <br />"For the state as a whole, the month was the ooldest Ootober <br />sinoe 1888, and the wettest thus far reoorded. The heaviest <br />preoipitation previously observed during the month vms in 1897, <br />the only other Ootober with an average preoipitation exoeeding <br />two inohes. The mean temperature for the month was lower in <br />1888 tha.n in the ourrent year, while in 1898 and 1905 it was <br />nearly as low." <br />"The mean temperature was below the normal at every station <br />in the State, with the greatest defioienoyto the vrestvmrd of the <br />Continental Divide, where it averaged 50 per day. At a few sta- <br />tions in the lower Arkansas valley the average defioienoy was less <br />than 10. The ~nerally low mean temperature was due to the <br />prot~oted oold spell in the seoond half of the month, as the first <br />two weeks were wanner than usual. The highest temperatures <br />were generally observed on the 1st in the western counties, and <br />on the 15th in the eastern part of the state. The cold spell, <br />which began On tho 16th and oontinued until near the end of the <br />