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Show WATER SUPPLY. IS PROMISING SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 9 (Special) "There is much speculation specu-lation these days as to Utah's prospective pros-pective water supply for the coming com-ing summer," said Prof. George Dewey Clyde, associate irrigation engineer of the Utah Agricultural i experiment station, Logan, Utah, speaking at the American Farm Bureau federation's water users conference here today. "In Cache valley, where we have the heaviest snow cover of record on the valley floor, the common opinion is that there will be ample later next summer. Monthly snow surveys on Mt. Logan reveal the fact that the snow-cover now is more than twice what it was a year ago. , "Taken over a 35-year period for which stream flow records are available, it is doubtful if the present pres-ent snow cover for February 1 is up to normal. Reports from Daniels creek summit on the Provo river, the Great Basin experiment station on the Wasatch plateau, and the Mammoth ranger station at the head of Price river, the snowcover is more than twice what it was a year aeo. "These reports indicate good water-supply prospects for 1932; however, unless abnormally high precipitation occurs between now and April 1, the runoff will not be abnormally high. In fact, the actual runoff may be below that indicated by the snow-cover due to the badly depleted ground storage which has resulted from a prolonged series of dry years." |