Show I WHY IS SNOW ANYWAY I I The encyclopedia tells one that snow Is la lathis this The aggregations of minute ules of lee ice Into which the excess of ot va vapor vapor a apor por In the atmosphere Is condensed when the temperature is at or below the freezing freez freezing freezIng ing point of water Now ow the number of minute of Ice contained in the snow that fell feIl yesterday yes yesterday yesterday is quite beyond human calculation calculation tion some one who anything better bet better better ter to occupy his time might count the flakes likes in a cubic inch and arrive arrie at some sort of ota a figure but probably there will willbe willbe willbe be no one ambitious enough to do this Approximately Salt Lake Is credited with W Ul having havin square miles square feet In every square mile and square Inches Multiply this by br eighteen the depth of the snow fail tail on the level eve and one has In cubic inches for tor a single square mile Now ow If It one takes Into consideration tion the fact tact that there ther are of these square miles one finds that one has b cubic inches It Is the generally accepted theory thc r that It takes taken a foot of snow to make an Inch of ot water yesterdays s fourteen Inches of snow gave gae a precipitation of ol an Inch and hundredths There are 2688 cubic Inches in a standard gallon and 31 ll gallons make a barrel Four gills ills make a pint two pints a quart four quarts a gallon The ordinary chaser is about half a gill Now then arises aris s the question of how many man drinks other than water would be required to secure the accompaniment accompaniments J of or a sufficient number of chasers to I consume the snow In melted state that fell feU In Salt Lake Lale yesterday I |