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Show STORM KING HS " ; OUT WATER SHORTAGE Rain Over Valley and Snow in Mountains Increase Supply. "Water officials were wearing broad smiles yesterday as they gazed out upon the mountain tops, newly capped with suow, and. the foothills saturated with rain- The water shortage from which the city has suffered for weeks is believed be-lieved to have received a blow from which it is not likely to recover this season. And after this season the mountain moun-tain reservoirs will guard against any recurrence of shortage. A fall of .60 of an inch was recorded by the weather bureau up to 6 o'clock yesterday morning, but reports from the canyons indicate a much heavier fall there. At Brighton more than an incli of snow fell and the surrounding mountain moun-tain tops were white with the first suow of the season. The flow of the streams was not appreciably ap-preciably increased because most of the rain was soaked up by the parched earth as fast as it fell, but the consumption was reduced to such a point that the water officials were able to fill the Thirteenth East street reservoir and put twenty feet of water into the new Fifth South street reservoir. The period of heaviest consumption is now past, and from now until the brisk fall weather sets in the amount of water needed will steadily decrease. Sprinkling restrictions will not be relaxed, re-laxed, however, until all danger of a resumption re-sumption of hot weather is past. Should the storm period continue for a week or ten days less stringent regulations probably prob-ably will be announced. |