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Show Oi) Utal;, Jpcr gimat(?, Jeetjerysprodu. e ITIi. s.ay hero nuUUhed. w-l.ly aro ftom tlio Itbctorlo Claaa ol Iho II. Y. M-adamy. Thry t.H.k lh. 1 rlao for 1 1.. I rat colloctlou of mnipoaltlona on Uuh. 1 ber e!ln.atc, ..cry and prodncta." 1 hoy aro pra. utnl, a. .! o InJIpa'od. oiily anauiatour oik,but, It U hopod.ai amateur work In tho rlhlit direction -. I - , Ttacher, rim Climatic Ioii.llll.ini of I'lali nllli Itrjnr.l ti M.iMurr. I If one erc to study the characteristic ViturtaoTi locillly, Ith a view to Waking It lila homc.thc foremost coini.l. tratlon uoultt,utidouhtedlj he the inols lute or ralnltll. When tho Plonecri were rn route for Ihli countrj, Utih was dcscrlhcil to thcmai n barren u itte, ntmoit devoid of vrgetatlon. Uon enlcrlni; bill Lake tallcy they found thli lo he turn, nn.l It did not rciuircn great length of lime to Hceitaln the cautc. tilth lies in the very heart of tho arid region of the United btates, and It li not kutptislng tint i ail) travelers ho hail crowd It regarded It na undesirable, if not cntlrel) unfit for human habitation. Of the til ihk) square mile! contained I twthtn the boundaries of Utah, onl) a mill pircentagc can be brought under Btultivation. Unllko tho largest portion of Uncle Satn'a domain, Utah, uuh the excrplion of a small trart l in ot Hie hue of the Wanted mountaina bet ecu running. Ion and UiiglumCitj, dtpiudi enlirLly, Tor her firm products upon Irrigation Tho fanning dutticts lit, for the most j part, along the principal rivers or nioun-1 nioun-1 ain str ami Tlime are subject to great S fluctuations rciultlng from the anows piled un In the mountains during the I lunler ultl.hnu.lt In Ma and June and M mell tin. rutrs to such proportions that I great tlamagc is sometimes done to j j properly oiul crops. ' Orelul observations have shown that tHre has been an almnat steady Increase In the ulnfall since the first settlement of thlilerrltorj. It Is now 14 inches rr iter than during the first inn of the aeiilement Seaeril theories have been adunccd to ace. unt for this fact Some have said that it uasoutngtoihe interposition of j I) wnr Providence in behalf of the 1 at I tcrhySilnti Some think It h ilu to I tit I Jlng of railroad tracks and tele graph lines, but fall to show in wlntwaj thi'. uuuld nflcct tho climate Others 1 inriine to the aolcanlc theorj.and still I oihars to the climatic tluorv. Hut evl- I detilly the truo explanation lies In what I 1 ku.in ai the llieory of human agen M Iu f'iothe area of Grcit Sill I ake H 1 isquare miles while 1 11 ?w it M had Incteosed to ai6Siuare mil. s.sIium j In. that there had been a ver material in rcasc in the volume of niter contained con-tained in the 1 Jke. It li also ascertained that there has been nn Increase In the amount ef water carried li) the rivers into the Lake It has hem frcqutntl) noticed that whereacr a settlement Is ustablishcd there follows an Increase of the aler fcUPIll) . Now let ui Inquire ho man has modified mod-ified the conditions li) which the Miter suppl) Is regulated or controlled All the moMurc that falls in Utah, cither In the form of rain or snow, returns eventually event-ually to the air A part Is nhorhed by xegetatlon nnd soli, only lo he given again to tlio air, another part rum from tlio surf ice In streams; and still another part sinks Into tliu groud and nficraard emerges as springs. A part of the water in the streams Is taken up b) tli5 porous soils, and the remainder Hows into Great Salt I ake Now the theory of human agencies nuppuses that man his modified these conditions hi three different uas Tint, by the cultivation of the soil, second, by the raising of herds, nnd third, by the cutting of trees ll plowing the soil man his made it more porous nnd absorbent, so that a unailrr percentage of tho shower runs otf The farmer Ins also diverted the Mater from the streamsmul for Irrigation purpjses, hassptea.1 it oxer the land, from which it is nbsorbe.l by the air Cattle, horsoa and sheep liaec ranged over large sections of country and have tlostro)e.l or reduced the native grasses, thus removing all obstruction from the .a of the uater in finding itsun) to the streams Instead of sinking The cutting of trees has also had tiie effect of increasing tire stirnmi The f removal of the foliage allows that part I nf tliu mulsMre which fonnerl fell on it nnd was thence evaporated, to teach the ground and run otf In rills Hut the greatest source of Increase In moisture Ilea In tho nver eat' tiding ana of vegetation, especially In the planting uf tries I very Iroe is a natural arte ian welldrawing dally two tons of w iter from deep doM nln the earth and scattering scat-tering It as apor through Its leaaea flits Is the main source of dew It Is believed that tho ruins filling shuitl) lifter cutting the hrst crop ol Idccrn are mini) dua in the moisture given olf l) tlio lucern 111 becoming hay At-cordinRly Congress passed a law known as the "limber Culture Act' for the encouragement of tree culture T lie object Is to inrreaselhe area of timber tim-ber land for the purpose of augmenting tin-fall of rain Utah is almokt whol.lv depamlent up on locnl evaporation for her rainfall bltuatril as ue are remote from lug' bodlts of water and surrounded bv t iwerini. rani.es of mountain the null turn car 1, d by th win HI n. ir .11 precipitated before reaching the Creat awr.j-i7' ! . .tvs. nil Ilisln And since the circulation of the moisture within the Great 11 J sin is almost al-most purely local, we may conclude that the farmer li is been instrumental only in making that circulation more rapid, by removing obstructions If it Is true that human ugcuht-s have been the causo of the irerease in the water supply, the prospect fur the future Is indeed bright I or ur may predict a still greater Increase as the West becomes be-comes more thickly peopled. rills subject Is worthy ofstu.lv, for by systematic ctlorts the work of the farmer farm-er mi) be rcn Icred stid more etfecluat in Increasing lite imoiint of moisture V C I vans lehi, Utah |