Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-03 | Page 8 | Weather Man Working in Interest of Utah

WEATHER MAN WORKING IN INTEREST Of UTAH Dr. Hyatt Just Beginning to Shim the People V, hat He Can Do. If any ono thinks that Weather Director Hyatt Isn'i working for the best Inter- is of the people of S.ill l.'ikf let him look over the snow record of this region for the pnst five years and ponder over tin Lr iv for i!i n of 111." Of,, whleTi Is only about half gone. Fifteen Inches Thus Far. Fifteen Inches Is tho record for the season sea-son thus i.ir, which Is double- the nmniint that fell during the same period In 1001 ;irnl KM , two and one-half Inches more than fill In l",t, ;md atl Inch more than In 1902, Thin Is Dr. Hyatt's third wlniT In Suit Lake, and he- says he is only now bi ginning to Bhow the pt ople what be can do In arranging for a plentiful water supply. sup-ply. By another year h" feels confident that he win have the entire situation in hand, jini if there Is any of the ji.ooo.ooo hft that was voted to secure a better v iti-r supply he Hhould come In for his share of the balance, as he feels that he alone can solve this great problem. Kind to the State. And not onlv has tho genial weather dl-o dl-o etqr been kirnl to the people of the Salt Lake valley, but to the towns all about, whlh Ihe mountain, as usual, havd come In for tho lion's share of precipitation. On many of the hills and mountains of lliu State snow Is alicad pn 1 ed to Ihe depth of live and lx feet, and the temperature tem-perature Is being o regulated that this Is to be held for an Indefinite period. Beautiful Night Tuesday's snow added another half Inch to the already goodly supplj that hjm fallen fal-len within the past few days it didn't begin early and last late as most of the recent storms have, but the snow fell Intermittently through the day. A clear, moonlight night thai made every pink of th Wasutch range stand out In bold relief ugiilnst the sky followed extremi 1 cold, but withal one of the most beautiful nights of the present season Clear and Wanner. Clearing and moderating weather may be looked for today not moderate weather, wea-ther, but Just a little warmer than has been experienced the past few days The change began with yesterday morning, morn-ing, when the thermometer registered one degree higher at 6 o'clock than on Monday Mon-day at the same hour, and was generally more moderate throughout the day