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Show This Time, It Goes to the Bos Building on South Main 1 Street. ' I 1- LOCATION IS CONSIDERED fjf BEST IN SALT LAKE Oil-1 Work in Connection With IP Change Already Is in fftf j Progress. 11 As soon as tbo new Boston builjl . is completed, which will probablvf1 ' . about the first of next June, tho Jp station of tho United States Wea$ ( bureau will be moved from its preiV' location on tho sixth floor of tho rtlhcc block to the top floor of the NcwnJP2 skyscraper. Tho work of installing A new appartua on tho top of tho Bo'& A building is in progress' at the prf, time and by the time the stmctmF completed everything will bo in i ' ness tor tho bureau to move in. & instrument shelter and the steel fit' tower Jor the aerometer were creX' on tho top of tho building MondaySf n It is tho custom of the United SffoU department of agriculture to ostaf: tho scions or tho weather bareafflRO tho highest buildings possible iu eB! city, ior the purpose of securing ajK circulation of air about the varioult' strumenls wjtb which tho observaj'i..j are-taken, and this is assigned to b.V(! chief reason for moving the Salt ?!-station. ?!-station. Then, too, the United Sfcf Off whonever h is possible, likes toi!r" its main ofliec in tho center of thojK' mess district of tho city, whero af& pno knows exactly whero lL is andls havo easy access to it. Wfc: Until very recently, tho Dooly lf. . has been one of the highest andljgT1" suitable buildings in the city forAr weather bureau, but with tho creS1 ot the Ncwhouso skyscrapers .indiEf1' constant tendenev of the town io ifF- '. its business district southeast, theWSf.ht ton building is now tho most appisj.fal ate location for the bureau of any-tffcTssln ing in the city. Another big beacf JI' to bo derived from tho move isjSno fact that it brings the weather Infiniinf very close to the federal bnilillpitrc wherein many of the other govcrajjififci oiheos are located. jjj Here for Many Years. tfafc The local station of the wejjjK"2 bureau was established March 19. and from thon until June 29, 1872 was located on tho third floor of2i''En Exchange, or Godbc building. coni"iJ7on First South nnd Main streets. Oifcn" latter date it was moved to the oldLpet satch building (now the Kcnvon) -vgr to 1 it remained until Julv 31, 1301. wnjpBlion was moved to tho Board of Trade bsk est ing. 154 West Second South. Hero mained until Marcli 15, 1S99, whtH . " was moved to ihc present 1 oca tidier the D00I3- block. During the tiitW:. . has been in tho Dooly block, kowjyg?! the spnee it occupies has been enlaJ5JT -(j? several times and new furniture 3it, struments have been added yearE"'0 yenr. jfffj.j.1 When it is moved to f.lo ncwlfc Hon in tho Boston building, an eeS.oj now set of instruments will bo insfal and tho rooms will be fitted up witjjrji?11 most modern furniture, the cosSSome which is as yet unknown. TJiC'ife', cquipmcnt will include thcrmonifd'? (lc barometers, aerometers and a rnplefisis o istcr. The tower and instrument shwk-which shwk-which have already been erected ofiUsh) top pf the uew skyscraper, are alsoWi .-Tho .-Tho ones at present on tho Dooly "Tjify will entirely be dono away with. Sib-ad Aerometer is Now. fifpfopli Tho now tower on the top of vfk. is to bo placed tho aerometer, thion slrument used to ascertain the dirofoj. n, and velociij" of the wind is thoR , of its kind which has over bcenW. rt in this 'city. It is made of galvaA'wiit steel nnd stands 40 feet high. It Jjjtecn shape of a long thin pyramid auyij g 0110 side is a ladder with which tKiO server climbs to tho top to see thoK' ''. meter. It is tho same kind of ai4 il rangoment which is used by iho wes.-bureau wes.-bureau in all of the largo cities cjj country. The great height of thoiffDrr is made necessary to secure anuQ structed current of air. If tho ivti ?r mcnt was set on tho top of the buK -u and not elevated above it thojgaplf would whirl up over the cornish ansjEmmr cle over tho flat roof thus causrt". , fort of whirlwind. -This, of course, -it- '"1 prevent tho sensitivo aeromotortmns registering the exact direction o:?in ar wind and thus iho observation 0f tLr bo seriously interfered with. 7Sv Ul It is expected that the bnreau.j'Rian it is moved, will occupy five roojtl iom tho elevonth or top floor of the 'bulfcin, n1 ! In theso will be fitted the latest kj,' stands and shelves for holding wrnor door instruments and it is tno.uem?ne. rooms will all be fitted up witWij fQai furniture. 'VtiUtrl , The removal of the -weather bur . ' a a very iniportnnt stop, as it moan5Kp3,Ba, accurate observations and henco aSere 1 complete Tccord of local mcteoroltT 0Q(liti0: . fihott , |