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<br />pUEOe 20 <br /> <br />Highway No. 14, west of Sterling, will not be repaired <br />for some days, due tu the necessity of making new fills. <br />It is closed. The old road near Pawnee creek may "be used in <br />the emergency. Permanent repair, however, may await completion <br />of work in restoring the North Sterling intake dit,oh, which <br />broke late Sunday. County road equipment is being used to <br />supplement the irrigation district's equipment, in order to <br />effect quick restoration and to permit the storage of <br />maximum amount of water before the spring runoff and floods <br />of the river are gone. <br />Contrary to rumors, thate has been practicall:f no flood <br />water in Cedar creek, which drains into the North :3terling <br />reseryoir,and there has been no recovery' of water in the big <br />lake since the intake ditch broke. The last gauge of the <br />water showed storage of 38,600 acre feet, it is stated by <br />R. J. Wright, superintendent of the district. The Prewitt <br />reservoir has continued taking full head. of water from the <br />river. <br />Relief Workers Help <br />About fifty men, on relief rolls, were used on highway <br />No. 6 south of Sterling during the flood. They helped greatly <br />in retaining the embankment of Sterling No. 1 ditch and that <br />fact, together with the ultimate breaking of the railroad fills <br />at the Pawnee creek crossing, doubtless prevented the flooding <br />of Sterling. <br />There was today no means of ascertaining what damage hs.s <br />been done to crops by the floods. One farmer of the Atwood- <br />. Pawnee district said that water stood three or fou:r feet deep <br />in his alfalfa and beet fields, and that it would require two <br />.1 weeks to drain out. Then, he predicted, on the basis of past <br />, experience, there will be heavy settlement of sediment. <br />Sterling was visited Tuesday and Tuesday night by .18 <br />of an inch of rainfall, which brought the May total at this <br />city to 4.81 inches. Weather forecast was for cloudiness and <br />showers in the state tomorrow. Temperatures at Sterling <br />Tuesday were 76 degrees, maximum, and 42 degrees, minimum. <br />Pat Marsh, water commissioner, stated this morning that <br />reports indicated 5,000 second feet of vater passing the <br />North Sterling headgates at Union, from the Bijou flood. <br /> <br />From THE STERLING ADVOCATE on Thursday, May 30,1935.... <br /> <br />i~tOOD THREA l'ENS <br />;: FLOODING. OF CIT'~" <br /> <br />1. ,..~ ._ <br /> <br />Third Runoff in Pawnee Creek, Smaller Than First ~.o, But <br />upon Existing Flood Conditions, Menaces No.1 Ditch This <br />Afternoon; Colorado Springs Floods Destructirc <br /> <br />State highway maintenance crews shortly after 1 o'clock <br />this afternoon appealed to city officers of Sterling to provide <br />sacks and other equipment for throwing up a retaining wall along <br />