Show i TILE tiie RISING RIVER STEPS takes TAKEN TO nanka rud tiie aile asu ris event 4 VENT TIM the eji tJI T i LM i hi A 1 special meeting of the 0 of I 1 halt sall lake city was way held in thebon al hall nali at 5 yesterday aate enoc n to consider the mattei I 1 of rai mai ral sin sip ir jve to 0 e leve levo levees es C ci I 1 th the tho 0 jolda joida and prevent the swollen stream waki wael ay 19 nav brimming plin g t to 0 its banks ito tto rm overflowing and submerging the r lands and portions ox of the eity city cit thirteen out af q we gub wards warda were represented aad ati ati sti NY would ouid h have been no doubt b but bul I 1 shirt notice nutice given givon b taho nie ale meeting meet mollp ipg a circumstance unavoidable oh ah 0 of pressing th nature of the bli bit business 11 8 in hand A 1 letter from surveyor josp desp W fox to president john tayl layar pr set forth that the lie lle most str strenuous nuell effurs were being made mado by the city etya and ah 4 county oft I 1 hel R I 1 to prevent the tho ahr r etoll toil tell ed over overflow ilow tiow but tiie tile one af such magnitude ani and the waters 1 of thi the river coming ipso up so xa rapidly piary thu t unless helt heit lom jom rom jam other sources the lile flo ilo floods obi opi cob coa con quer and great destruction p 1 f pr be the thu re sult suit this letter tetter uh une one by ent taylor withe lit as A to tile ille he feeling me eling payl payi urgently rg quest 04 tiie the raising atthe 01 tue tae nural cr af pf uin elu clu ciu IreI ired each ward waro to assist in lii the work hork trie the 11 were askea asken apy press their own and say fay what nhat OV oey ly ovy y cougil aud and do in tho the 11 matter mata cr uld did each tacit responded accordingly 4 to doall do nil ail that waa was possible in the lit abaev and patriotic tic tiu undertaking the ghe ho general feeling wa a that ench vard siou aronld sion ld gather up all the men that could be had hwd aux and aud s see set work at the expense of tho the IV ward ard adf and then call upon those nho who nho had bad had means and could not lem lel their weir vocations iop lop 0 tto tco volunteer their umi own abo jho wherewith to them Frank Armstrong V esq M the county court who nas was present was asked asket to 0 inq lyd gevat his opinion off thy describe vicinity of the river mr dir Armstron Arp ston rf sald said that the situation was be comin very serious tho the river was waa braml brimful already and yet high water had hwd little moro more than begun began IF it it should raise draise a foot more the floods would everything and the destruction destruct on td juro pro perty would d be immense Im mense menso the avater inight ight advance well up towards the lower paroo art of main street eti and hundreds of families would be less liess another danger I 1 ho he sald said was that tile the river rivet ini might lit leave its lt present channel and plough plot h through the sixteenth tind find nineteenth wards towards the hot spring 4 lake as tile the land this side the river was wa g some feet lower than tha 11 its banks much water had already seep cd ad through and was rising i tile the river rh er itself now isow was Ns the time to 1 work and v while hile hiie the levees were being strengthened from coons up to two or three tilee mile s above Surcy surey or vo was antwork at work ascertaining the practice tica i a new out outlet letto ietto to the the river on th the e west side leading to tile tiie great salt lk lake mr armstrong having finished bisi bis i hop 11 II bli hii clawson crawson Ci awson and elder ellas eilas morris norris were appointed a col eol committee mit to confer with walker brothers the D it R G company and othero other owning plia property ert in the neighborhood threatened by y it the flood to obtain as 6 sl si stance from them Ii ithe inthe way tf of checking its Imp impending ending ravages T th meeting then adjourned adjourn eil I 1 n the bishops were busily at work last night and at an early hour tins this morning numbers af men could babp have been seen wending their way was jordan wards those with sho shovels I 1 s gathering inthe vicinity of ilo iio hon n go gcoy vcr ft cannons property a great deal olow of which icil tell isral is already under water and those with teams at the white britte bridge fostof foot of north temple street |