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<br /> <br />locomoti veS and batteries, were picked up by the rushing waters an~. <br />carried an estimr.ted 2-1/2 miles dovm hill to the mouth of Spring <br />Canyon. Four buildings including the con~~ny's nnahino shop, wood <br />shop, drawing shop, and a battery charging building ",ere damaged. A <br />su~~ry of the damages follows: <br /> <br />TOTAL <br /> <br />$100,000 <br />2,400 <br />15,000 <br />1,020 <br />2,120 <br />9,955 <br />910 <br />$131,405 <br /> <br />Contractors equipment <br />Other equipment <br />Roads and bridges <br />Irrigation <br />Improvements <br />Crops and land <br />Livestock <br /> <br />III Floods in the North Platte River Basin. <br /> <br />18. General. The outlook on the North PI" tte on the first of Hay <br />was for a good sumr.ler flow, above normal, but less than the 1947 seClson. <br />Storage at that time in the four major reservoirs tot~lod 1,536,000 &cre <br />feet, substantially above norm~l. The river remained well under control <br />the remainder of the year and damage re?orts were confined to tributary <br />areas in Gering & 11itchell Valleys and at T!heatlund, Tiyoming. <br /> <br /> <br />19. tIitchell Valley ,md GGring Main Drain, Nebraska. A local <br />stcrm, accompanied by hail, struck vnth gre~t intensity just west of <br />South Mitchell, Nebr~ska ~nd also over the ne~rby Roubadeau P~ss Arca <br />on June 16, 1948, producing strong hillside runoff which co.rried top- <br />soil and debris onto tho low lying areaS of' Mi tenell bottoms and the <br />Gering drainD Four inches of precipitation fell in 1-1/2 hours during <br />the evening of Ju.~e 16, 1948. . <br /> <br />20. Discharge and Damages. Measurement of discharge was impr[tcti~l <br />because of irregularities in chamlel and flow. ~wenty-five county bridges <br />were damaged in Scottsbluff County. One-half mile of ballast W"..cS washed <br />from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks ne&r Haig, N~brask&. The Gering <br />Main Drain, which flooded in june 1947, overflowed southeast of Gering, <br />NebraSka, destroying 80 acres of beets ~nd inundating three f"rm homes. <br />Damages were estimated as follows: <br /> <br />TOTAL <br /> <br />~20,000 <br />5,000 <br />1,000 <br />4,000 <br />2,500 <br />30,000 <br />5,000 <br />$67,500 <br /> <br />Bridges and roads <br />Railroads <br />Irrigation structures <br />Cro ps <br />Dwellings <br />Erosion and scouring <br />Indirect <br /> <br />21. .,Vheatland Creek, Wheatland, Wyoming. On Mo.y 21, 1948, unst"ble <br />moist tropical air resulted in storm activity at W'neatlo.nd, Wyuming.. and <br />Malbeta, Nebraska. Intense rainfall at Ymeatland caused floods along 0. <br />drainage channel (locally called "Wheatland Creek") through the eastorn <br />edge of the city. <br /> <br />5 <br />