MAYOR CANDLAND APPEALS FOR INTERESTS iN THE CITY ~~~ 1918

 

Mayor W.D. Candland 

1918

Also see:

1918 flood 

https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=9054792&page=6&q=Mt.+Pleasant+flood&year_start=1912&year_end=1950&facet_type=%22article%22&facet_paper=%22Mt.+Pleasant+Pyramid%22 1918 flood

HEAP BIG WATERS,

 

June 18, 1918, during W. D. Candland's term as mayor, Mt. Pleasant was visited by a number of floods, one being the biggest in the history of the city. Great boulders and rocks were carried with the stream of mud, damaging bridges and fences, sweeping down the streets and through city lots, covering gardens and filling basements, and completely filling the channels with debris, rocks, etc. One life was lost, that of Louis Oldham, who, near his home east of the city, slipped and fell into the stream. Some days later, his body was found in the debris west of the city. A few days after the flood, a group of convicts were sent from the state penitentiary to assist in clearing out Pleasant Creek channel. Many local men volunteered their assistance. p 200 "History of Mt. Pleasant" by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf

Mayor Candland Appeals For Interests Of The City (from our archives)

 

Mayor W.D. Candland 

1918

Also see:

1918 flood 

https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=9054792&page=6&q=Mt.+Pleasant+flood&year_start=1912&year_end=1950&facet_type=%22article%22&facet_paper=%22Mt.+Pleasant+Pyramid%22 1918 flood

MAKING HISTORY TODAY..... Since January 2020

We doubt anyone would have imagined the year 2020 being so eventful.  Some of us knew that the future would bring some tumultuous times.  However, a Pandemic?  Amost  everyone we have talked to thought some of the obvious events to occur were:  Forest Fires, Floods, Earthquake, Economic Depression, War, Etc.

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Well we did have the earthquakes in Magna which was pretty major for those in the Salt Lake Valley.
Last year and the year before we had major forest fires and then because of the fire-burn scars, many had flood problems.  And no doubt our dollar has been devalued because of the major expenses due to the Corona Virus pandemic.  A recent windstorm did much damage throughout the county, blowing down trees and power lines and even blew a roof off  a house in the southeast end of town.

We also most recently have been overwrought with crime mostly due to those who protest racism in our country.
 Windstorm:https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/heraldextra.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/a0/8a00bff8-6c2a-5c1b-93ad-a8fd667958c1/5edfa24e77d5f.image.jpg?resize=750%2C563

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Governor Gary Herbert asked us all to obey the mask rules that are currently in place.  As we have become a little too confident about being out in crowds. And now so many areas are having a resurgance of the epidemic.  Utah is one of the states seeing a drastic increase in numbers

The Moroni Turkey Processing Plant now require both face masks and face shields for their on-line workers.  The face masks alone are very uncomfortable and now the addition of a face shield will be even worse.  But most want to keep their jobs and will wear both to stay working.

The Processing Plant has now had five workers tested positive for the corona virus.  They are no longer working there and all employees have their temperature taken before entering the plant.

The Moroni Heritage Credit Union is now closed because one employee was diagnosed with the corona virus and all other workers have been quarantined for 14 days.  There are however other Heritage Credit Unions locally in Mt. Pleasant and Ephraim that are still open. 

The insert below is statistics from June 24th.  So it is a little outdated.  Each night we hear of thousands of deaths around the country.  

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043366/novel 
 coronavirus-2019ncov-cases-worldwide-by-country/

STATISTICS ON THE TOPIC

• Overview
• Cases and deaths by country
• Development over time
• Focus: Public opinion
• Miscellaneous

NUMBER OF COVID-19 CASES WORLDWIDE AS OF JUNE 24, 2020

9,360,758

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM COVID-19 WORLDWIDE AS OF JUNE 24, 2020

479,896

ESTIMATED COVID-19 MEAN INFECTION RATE

JOURNEY OF FAITH continued

With permission of David R. Gunderson, we include the following book to our blog.   I will do a few increments at a time, as I have done with the Andrew Madsen and James Monsen histories.  I will also paste the pages over to David's own blog page: http://davidrgunderson.blogspot.com/

This book will be of interest to not only the Gunderson Family but also to the Brotherson, Ericksen, Peel,   Madsen, Larsen and more.

JOURNEY OF FAITH

Erick and Caroline Gunderson

THE MT. PLEASANT STORY ~ United States Department of Agriculture ~ A study done in 1850

Huntington Canyon Fire and Flood Areas ~ June 2012

 Last Friday we decided to ride over to Huntington Canyon to see the forest fire damage from the fire that started on Seely Mountain and traveled all the way to Scofield.  Hundreds of miles of destroyed timber and undergrowth that mother nature had left behind.  Beetle kill is one of the real culprits combined with lightning and negligent humans.  This canyon will not be the same for some years to come.  (Yesterday, September 1, it was reported that due to the rainfall in this canyon, automobile sized boulders were released from the side of the mountain and blocked traffic on Highway 31.)

 Because of the burned undergrowth, any significant rainfall will turn into devastating flooded areas which are as bad as the fires themselves.

 The many roadside campgrounds in this canyon have been destroyed.  

 State Road crews are still on site cleaning up the damage from flood mud and debris.

The above photo shows the resulting flood mud and if you look

real close you can see how high on the trees the rushing

water came through this area.

 As we were coming home, I took a picture of Electric Lake.

You can see the significant drop in water level.

And here I captured a doe and a pair of fawns.