Show FINE SNOWSTORM BENEFITS Ul UTAH AU AUL L ls Js 1 s What Needs and What Insures Bountiful Sup Sun Supply ply of Water for Summer WILL LAST ANOTHER DAY MEANWHILE IT IS WET AND SLOPPY UNDERFOOT 1 A tine snowstorm Ii struck Utah yes yesterday arId and ai the Indications ns are that It Mil continue for or at least another day Tho fall taU was heavy and steady The Precipitation began early In the th morn mornIng mornIng mOrnIng Ing When rain fell When the temper fell teU the rain changed to snow In Inthe Inthe Inthe the city the flakes melt almost as fast as aB th y fall but In the mountains the snow ShOW will hold In great quantities At no time yesterday esterday was the tem tern J disagreeably cold It ranged aboUt the freezing point or a little littie above There wa was scarcely a sign of ot Iud hid and the flakes came straight down The snowfall is general over the tate state the circle that marks the low pressure having its center at Modena v ith Rh a northern range including Poca tello telio The fall will be of ot inestimable benefit to the dry farmers It is just such uch a fall of moisture as a best suits spits I I the soil at this time it is said the pre pared Fared surface being baing In lii the best condi condl Pon fon fIon nt at l this time l n to receive and retain ft It The snowfall also will add dd greatly u to to the stores of snow in the gulches and I mountains and anti insures a a bountiful ot of f water Ion eon for r the irrigation sea seaWater I Water in All AH of ot the streams are ara higher this season eason than they the were last year ear and the lake lahe is only an inch lower at this time than it was at its maximum i height last year It is altogether able that the surface surf Ce of ot the lake lak this ear will ill be higher than it has been tor for years and thus will the t he magazine writer wrIt r again be deprived of ot his to write articles entitled Salt Lake Drying Up The Jordan river is almost There will vIll be no fear f r of ot a deficiency of ot hater eater even though the indicated de y since Jan 1 is still stillmore more than halt half an Inch Yesterdays precipitation i mounted amounted to 54 64 Inch which leaves leav s the normal deficiency only 63 Inch The outlook is that this deficiency will be overtaken and that by tonight well welli i be avin agin Its lt s the kind of ot storm I like to see said Dr Hyatt the section director Its general and unaccompanied by high wind We c expected it a little earlier but some of ot these storms move slowly when they have havo nothing behind I them to push them We find by a ret ref reference to the map that we have noth ing behind our storm from the south southeast southeast southeast east and that the storm is being met with Ith an high pressure that pre I ails calls over the whole lake region and westward This will have a tendency to In delay the tho passing afoul of our storm still stillmore I more morp J People Like It AntI After the period of ot fair weather yesterdays dampness was not much of ot a factor in deterring peo people peole pIp le from getting out of doors Not a fr fC v of them said they came out Just I to get Rrt Into the snow It certainly was wasI I sloppy OPPY enough to suit the most moat slushy I enthusiast But while Salt Lake and Utah are en I the blessings of ot a snow snowstorm snowstorm I storm they continue up north to per persist persist In being frozen in Up at Swift SwiftCurrent SwiftCurrent Current for Instance it was 44 degrees below zero and at Calgary 6 degrees below There was a certain something that hit Montana the something being a cold snap which showed 16 below at Havre but which did not extend over the state general generall Aside from these extremes f the fared pretty well ell no section having cause caus cause to com corn complain plain of excessive cold or unusual i snow s The local record for the day was tas Temperature at 6 p m 34 31 de degrees degrees degrees grees maximum temperature 41 de do degrees degrees grees green minimum temperature 33 de degrees degrees degrees grees mean temperature 37 31 degrees which Is 11 1 1 degree below normal Total excess of ot temperature since the first of ot the month 9 degrees accumulated excess of temperature since Jan 1 degrees Total precipitation 54 Inch total precipitation since first of ot the month 54 1 4 inch which is 29 inch above normal accumulated deficiency since Jan 1 I 63 Inch Relative humidity at 6 p m in 91 1 per cent |