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<br />I <br /> <br />f <br />r <br /> <br /> <br />t:; <br /> <br />~-- <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />_ _4" <br /> <br />PRINCIPAL AREAS OJ!' INTENSE RAINFALL. <br /> <br />15 <br /> <br />Mr. C. F. Burke, manager of the Blue Ribbon ranch, in secs. 2 <br />and 3, T. 21 S., R. 65 W., sta,ted that the storm appeared to come <br />from the northeast and was met by a storm from the southwest. <br />Mr. J. H. Farris, in see. 34, T. 21 S., R. 67 W., stated that he <br />first noticed storm clouds in the northeast. The storm appeared to <br />,,'ork to the west on the north side. of the river, then south and <br />southeast, and when it reaehed his raneh was eoming from the north- <br />west, <br />, Mr. E. C. Higgins, who lives at the crossing of the Penrose and <br />Canon City road over Eightmile CrE:ek, 6 miles above its mouth, <br />gave the most complete account of the> storm. He said the sky hall <br />been very cloudy the entire morning of June 3. From the mem <br />above his house he could see for many miles along the ellst face of <br />the vVet Mountain range, which lies ,south of Arkansas River. A. <br />dense bank of black clouds lay along the top amI sides of the range <br />during the morning, and Itbout 1 p. m. it dropped down from the <br />mountains and seemed to push out along the mesa top. A similar <br />bank of clouds had hung in the hills to the north, in the direction <br />of Cripple Creek. ThesE! clouds gradually dropped lower, and by <br />1 p. m. it started to rain in the hills. Between 2.30 and 3 p, m. H <br />o began to rain at the Higgins ranch, and in a few minutes the min <br />was pouring down in sheets so continuous that it was impossible to <br />see across the highway lane, in front of the house. <br />Mr. Sim Wells, superintendent of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.'s <br />ditch, who lives near the mouth of Rock Creek, stated that at the <br />point where the creek lellves the high mesa lands the water came <br />over the edge of the mesa in great sheets for a distltnce of half a <br />mile on each side. <br />" The rain began in the foothills north of the narrow mountain valley <br />about 1 p. m. By 3 p. m, it had spread over the upper and middle <br />parts of the valley, and between 5 and 7 p. m. it reached the lower <br />end near Pueblo. On Eightmile, Rush, and Rock creeks the hardest <br />rain occurred between 3 and 4 p, m.; near'Pueblo it did not oCCllr until <br />10 or 11 p. m. The rain continued with intermissions until after <br />midnight. <br /> <br />PRINCIPAL ARl'JAS OF INTENSE RAINFALL. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />'fhe '''cather UUrCalll'eeOrUS (p.13) inuicate that for the 48 hours <br />cnding on the a fternoon of .J une 4 the rainfall in the drainage basin <br />between Canon City and Pueblo was from 3 to 5 inches and that it was <br />he:n'iest in the northern part of this area, near Pikes Peak. 'Within <br />this general region there were smaller areas where the rainfall was <br />very intense but of short duration, <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />f <br />