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Show MAKE GLACIERS TO HOjIITEFI Artificial Ice Packs Are Suggested Sug-gested for Late Summer Supply SALT LAKE, April 15. "The making mak-ing of artificial glaciers and .1 chain of pools ia a practicable method of ivator conservation for late summer use," says J. Cecil Alter, oC the United States weather bureau." J. P. Megeath and A. D. Teasdel of this city have probably given more attention to the ma'tter than any other people although some ycaro ago tho matter was advocated by Walter D. Tuttlo also. "The proposition consists primarily in gathering the running water," said Mr. Alter, "both that In the streams and much of the underground flow, Into short pipe lines, and letting It flow slowly, or sprayed if necessary gulleys, during intensely cold weather, into the sheltered basins and availablo where It would 'freeze into a great mass. Such glaciers might be numerous numer-ous and some of them very large, covering cov-ering several acres in extent and being be-ing several feet In depth, it Is claimed by thoso who have given the matter some study. Water which now flows to wate in winter would thus be conserved, con-served, it is said." |