Pg. 146 Pg. 147 continued from Page 96 obtaining land for highway purposes. G. O. Biophy. Cloudburst in Weber Canyon. On the afternoon of July 10 – 1930 a violent rainstorm visited this section, causing damaging floods in various parts of Utah. The storm appeared in its greatest violence at Devils Gate, Weber Canyon, where it poured a torrent on the mountains, which rushed down the steep canyons, sending down huge masses of earth and rock, and filled the bottom of the main canyon in two places and covered the railroad over for 600 feet and 40 ft in depth. The river, swollen by the run-off from the storm, was back up over the highway and railroad for half a mile, and filled the highway with tons and tons of rock and conglomerate. Hundreds of men were employed with steam shovels, drag lines, etc. Both roads were closed for several days. A conservative estimate of the damages sustained by the U. P. R. R. and highway is $350.000. Turn back to page 97.