Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-02-16 | Page 11 | City Watershed Observer Ends 9-Day Silence

City Watershed Observer Ends Day 9 9 Silence William Webb Isolated at Brighton Sends Word of Record Stand of Snow William Webb observer for the c city ity t water department at the Brighton watershed has broken his nine days days' silence to report that on February 1 11 the he depth of snow on the watershed nearly early eclipsed the all all time tinie high rec rec- ord rd H. H K Burton superintendent o of waterworks wa wa- received a note from Mr Webb Tuesday by messenger Mr Webb reported the storms isolated iso iso- him February 8 when telephone I lines were torn down Two days later ater the power line supplying electric elec- elec trie ric light current was put out of com corn mission On February 11 following a fall o or of 23 3 inches of new snow there was a 1 otal total of or 98 08 inches on the watershed The rhe time all High is inches on April 1 1922 The snow had settled to the point where there was only 86 inches' inches stand stanc when Paul Davis caretaker at Balsam inn nn started to Salt Lake with Mr Webbs Webb's report