Show MAYOR MAYeR MORRIS HESITATES TO 55 JUDGE STREETS SALTON SINK THEORY I Former Mayor RIchard P Morris is not one of those who believes the Salt SaltI I Lake ake climate Is changing and that there Is a greater amount of snowfall and rainfall rain fall than thu n formerly When I was n a boy said the former mayor In a remIniscent mood yester yesterday day were winters when we had two and three weeks sleIghIng at a time and as for coasting it seemed to last all winter Mr lIr Morris has spent an all ills his life here and Is scarcely a aspot spot about tile the city that is not familiar to him and that does nt not bring Ul UI some r cen cence e of hIs childhood days Why he saId as a lie he stood at the corner of Second North Currant und and enter we u used ed to start coast coasting coasting ing up there at the Kelsey vInce place and slide to the old oH square where the present High school building Is lo It to me the tho snow then would pile up two or three feet deep p There was plenty of snow In the hills and no complaint of a water shortage then But Salt Lake Lale City was not so large then as now nov nor were there thereas as many demands for water I 1 s see e Judge c Street ha has a theory that Urn tho Salton sink han caused a change In inthe the climate of this region and brought more moisture mainly to southern Ne Nc yada vada and Arizona I am am not much versed in meteorology and am not in ina a to dispute with the judge but of this I am sure there Is no de decIded decided difference In the climate of Salt Lake now and a few years back There were heavy snows then as I have hae said saidI as there have been the past win winters but takIng it all In all climatic conditions have remained substantially tile the same durIng my lifetime here It ItIs Itis Is true that In years gone by there was wasa a larger Volume or rather a great depth of water In Great Salt lake Ac According According cording to Judge Str Streets ets theory there should have been a greater amount of precIpitation then than now Great Salt lake Is still sUll a much greater bod body of water than the Salton sink If the vast precipitation as shown in the r and snows of southern No Ne Novad ya vad a and Arizona In the past ast year are area arel a l direct result of the evaporation from the thc Salton sea wily this immediate section should never be athirst with the Great Salt lake to dra drav from However we can aU all be thankful that there Is an abundance or of early snow packed awa away in the mountains to tomake make our water supply safe and sure for Cor next summer whether it comes from the Salton sink or the Arctic ocean |