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Show RAIN MEANS WEALTH TO UTAH Precipitation To Date 48-in. Greater Than in Same Period of 1925 Salt Lake City. A general rain over the state of Utah is worth in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $6,000,000 an inch. Wednesday's Wed-nesday's rain which was fairly general amounted to .85 of an inch, and was therefore not merely a "million dollar rain," but a "five million dollar rain." This conclusion is reached by Salt Lake's weather man, J. Cecil Alter, who uses the following line of reasoning: reason-ing: Last year the value of all of Utah's agricultural crops, including sheep and livestock, amounted to about $90,000,000. This was produced on a total of sixteen inches of precipitation, precipi-tation, making it a simple matter of arithmetic to determine the money value of an inch of rain. Although Wednesday's storm did not cover the entire state, while the $90,000,000 does an added value accrued an augmentation augmenta-tion of all municipal water supplies. Further, according to Mr. Alter, the downpour was a timely one, coming at a time when crops were badly in need of moisture after a dry spell of two weeks, thus its value was relatively rela-tively greater. Beets, winter and spring wheat, alfalfa, al-falfa, garden crops, fruit trees and , range grass in fact all growing things were the beneficiaries of the downpour which lasted nearly twelve hours. City water supplies were also greatly helped. At Mountain Dell 1.77 Inches were reported and at the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon 1 inch. While rain fell on the valleys, snow fell on the higher mountains, adding priceless moisture to the summer storage stor-age reservoirs. |