Show GLACIER POOLS H WOULD FURNISH WATER SUPPLY Artiff Artificial ial Bodies of Ice in Canyons Said to Be BeJ J Practical Artificial glaciers g and a chain of ot pools pools' are arc being advocated ad to store t the he I city's water supply an anti l Increase the lato Into summer bummer stream flow Jow for municipal municipal municipal pal uses b by J J. J Cecil Alter head of oC the United States weather bureau here This plan said Mr r. r Alter will assure a steady 1 flow low of oC cool fresh and clear dear clearwater clearwater water the year round The States weather bureau here h has H been urged to undertake the I glacier making making- project in an experimental experimental experimental mental wa way in one or more o of the thc canyons can can- which furnish the city's water cater supply but this has been impossible owing to th the lack of oC funds according according- to Mr Alter Method J b Natural ft Th The proposition consists primarily In Iii gathering the running running- water ater said sati Mr Alter Aller both that in the streams and much of the underground flow fow inlo short pipe lines and letting It flow slowly or sprayed If ir necessary into the sheltered basins and available during Intensely cold weather where It would freeze into a great mass Such glaciers might be numerous numerous numerous numer numer- ous and some sume of oC them large larg-e cov- cov very l nC In nl h h. h lug ing several ev r i cot i In depth i it f is S 'S claimed tr I I by those who have given Iven the matter some study Water Yater which now flows to waste aste in winter would thus tints be conserved con con- served it is said The project has been heen 3 advanced 1 bya by bp bya a n number of or persons but probably Joseph Joseph Jos Jos- eph p. p Megeath Je eath and andA A A. A D D. have looked into it more thoroughly than others The system of ot pools in the canyons to supplement the reservoirs and aud retain water that Is more or less aerated active and alid was ad advocated ad- ad many years ears ago o by Walter G G. Tuttle Fr Freezing R i Moisture It is a matter of oC common observation I tion the advocates claim that the snow which endures until late in the I 1 summer is that which has been compacted compacted com corn into like ice-like masses in the hi higher high high- her h- h er ravines ra b by winds and rain and that tho the water Wlter retained in the smaller but butmore butmore butmore more agitated pools along along- the line tine of th the running streams would become much les less stagnant than water stored in n quiet reservoirs Thus these enterprises In combination combination tion are arc being fostered in an effort eUort not only to give o a purer water supply supply sup- sup ply sly for late summer use but to transfer trans trans- fer a portion of the winter stream discharge to the l Idle te summer months when it Is sorely needed No estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate of ot the cost has been made mado pubic pub pub- lie Hc ic though it is stated that certain private Interests ha have havo vo alread already considered considered considered consid consid- ered the tentative cost of artificial glaciers In tavor favorable ble localities where irrIgation water Is stored with a a. view to the making of an offer to the users of or the water for the sale of oC the tho de deferred ie de- erred flow thus obtained |