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<br />; <br /> <br />print that was furnished: "St. Vrain River (sic), Longmont, Colo., <br />at flood stage. Decoration day, 1894. Looking southeast from upper <br />story of Longmont's Farmer's Mill luow Intermountain Elevator Co.1 <br />where St. Vrain and Lefthand Creeks merge." The building referred <br />to is the third building north of the main line of the railroad on <br />the west side of U.S. Highway 287 (see plate 2). The street shown <br />in the right side of the picture is present U.S. Highway 287 (Main <br />Street), and the railroad tracks probably are at their present <br />location, and presumably at about their present elevation. The <br />creek probably was at or near its highest stage when the picture <br />was taken. Much of the flooding shown probably was due to a flood <br />on Lefthand Creek, rather than St. Vrain Creek itself. The photo- <br />graph in figure 4-B, taken in November 1962 from the upper story <br />of the Intermountain Elevator Company, shows approximately the same <br />area that is shown in figure 4-A. <br />Reports concerning the extent of the flood in other parts of <br /> <br />the valley are somewhat contradictory. The late Mr. Ray Lanyon, <br /> <br />editor emeritus of the Longmont TimeS-Call stated (oral communication, <br />1961) that he saw "water almost up to Burlington school in 1894", <br />thus giving credence to vague rumors that have been widely circulated <br />locally. Consideration of the topography of the valley and the <br />present location of Burlington school (see plate 2) made this statement <br />seem almost incredible, unless the 1894 flood on Lefthand Creek was <br />many times greater than could rellsonably be supposed. However, <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />