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Most of the damage done here was due to the railroad grade. 

 Had there been sufficient trestle work the damage would have 

 been slight. Despite all of this, no trestle work is being constructed. 



East Fork of White River. That part of the East Fork of 

 White River which was investigated as to the flood conditions 

 has only a few features in common with the West Fork. In the 

 first place, the waters were much higher, mainly because of the 

 superior abundance of rainfall within its basin; secondly, because 

 of the narrowness of the valley itself, which is very similar to the 

 W^est Fork in Owen County; and thirdly, because of slighter fall. 



The region above the junction of the Muscatatuck River with White 

 River, is similar to the Morgan County region of the West Fork. 

 Here the valley is wide for the same reason that the valley of the 

 West Fork is wide, i. e., it is in the Knobstone region, with its soft 

 and easily eroded sandstones and shales. Below Sparksville the 

 valley ranges from less than a quarter of a mile in width to about a 

 mile. It seldom gets over three-quarters of a mile in width, and 

 generally is about one-half mile wide. Through this latter region 

 the valley is really a great meandering groove with the river passing 

 from one side to the other as the entrenched meanders of the val- 

 ley turn in one loop after another. The channel itself has for 

 ages, so to speak, remained in its present site. It does not cut 



Fig. 35b. Frogeye, in Shoris, looki.ig so_th. 



