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<br />. <br /> <br />PREVIOUS FLOODS. <br /> <br />-"-'- <br /> <br />41 <br /> <br />,- - <br /> <br />JlaxilllUln di-llcha.,.ge8 predoll-3ly recorded f".,. atreams in Rocky j[olllltail~ States. <br /> <br /> Maximum <br /> dlscharge. Period <br /> . Drain... 01 <br />Stream. I Date. age maxl- <br /> Per area. mum <br /> Total. square discharge. <br /> mne. <br /> 8..../1. 8..../1. 8 .. Hour.. <br />Mora River at La Cueva, N. Mex............... Sept. 29, 100l q.m.. <br /> 22,200 140 '159 12 <br />OaUlnas River at Hot sprlnN.' N. Mex.. ....... Sept. 30, lOOl 11, 600 129 00 1 <br />Cauadlan River at FrenChM . Mex............. October, lOOl 156, 000 105 1,480 .5 <br />Mora River at webe~ex.................. Sept. 30, lOOl Zl,700 94 294 2 <br />Purgatolre River at d, Colo. . ........... .....do....... 45, 400 61 742 1.5 <br />North Fork of Sun River near Angusta, Mont.. Iune 21,1916 32,300 54 600 .......... <br />Bear Creek at Morrison, Colo.. ..............,.. Iuly 24, 1896 8,600 '8 1lIO .......5:i <br />WIDow Creek near Augusta, Moot.............. May 26, 1917 3,740 42 90 <br />Two Bntta Creek at mouth, Colo. .............. October, 1908 35,000 39 ' ,900 .......... <br />North Fork 01 Cache 1a poudre River at Llver- <br />mor..Colo.................................... May 2O,100l 20,000 38 532 3 <br />WIDow Creek near AUgus~ Mont.............. Iune 23,1916 3,400 38 00 9.5 <br />Crow Creek at Cheyenne, yo................. May 2O,100l 8,500 34 251 .5 <br />Cherry Creek at Denver, Colo............... .... Iuly , 14,1912 11,000 25 (45 .......... <br /> <br />".... <br /> <br />One of the most complete lists of flood flows in various parts of the <br />country is contained in a paper by Emil Kuichling.l1 A general <br />discussion of destructiye floods in the United States is given in the <br />following water-supply papers of the United States Geological Sur- <br />yey: <br /> <br />96. Destructiye floods in the Uniteti States in 1903. by E. C. Murphy. <br />147. Destructive fioods in the Uniteti States in 1904, by E. C. Murphy. <br />162. Destructiye fioods in the United States In 1905. by E. C. Murphy and <br />. . others. . <br /> <br />Many references to flood literature are also given in appendix 7 of <br />the report of the Flood Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. . <br /> <br />" Flood f1<rtvs : Am. Soc. Civil Eng. Trans., vol. 77. pp. 650-662, 1914. <br /> <br />" <br />