Show showers on the afternoon of friday last there was a heavy shower passed over this city which extended nea nearly aly or quite over salt lake valley watering the be ground beautifully and another on sunday night and during the week there have baen several other light showers all very timely altho aitho there is plenty of water this season for irrigation a heavy shower waters the ground universally lays the dust lust purifies the air and makes nature and smiling beyond anything that can be produced by the common artificial mode of watering we understand that the counties of tooele thoele davis and weber have been visited with fine showers within the last rew cew days A gentleman from manti who came down with an ox team and was six or seven days daya oa oz the road reports that it rained where be he encamped every night after leaving manti till be arrived in this city and that the roads in some places were quite muddy in consequence of the abundance of water that had fallen since the settlement of these valleys by the saints the earth has not been so thoroughly and extensively watered by showers at this season of the year as it has within the last ten days and from present appearances more maybe expected the exact amount of water that has fallen in the several locations that have been blessed by these showers we are not prepared to report some of the superintend ants of meteorological observations may be able to guess within a few inches the quantity that has come down in the vicinity ef of their establishments but the chief of that department in this city has not reported but once since the showers commenced the facts tho may be expected to appear in his bis next monthly report if the late hot weather has lot not no effected his bis instruments too much |