Show We Could All Use se a Good Soaking Rain Just about everyone in Utah is hoping hoping hoping hop hop- ing for some good heavy rains to put an end to an unusually long and unseasonable unseasonable unseasonable able spell of dry hot weather But no noone noone noone one is praying half as hard as F F. F C. C Koziol supervisor of the Wasatch forest forest for for- est and his rangers on fire control duty in the forest Anyone who has gone camping or or picnicking in our canyons recently knows just how tinder dry they arc The powdery powdery powdery pow pow- dery condition of the mountain soil tells the story of the almost total absence of moisture better than anything else The meagerness of canyon streams is revealing revealing revealing reveal reveal- ing too Trees brush and grass on mountain slopes and in canyons is ready to burst into flame at the slightest spark and only a good soaking rain rain far far more than the minor showers we have had the last few days will days will end the danger That's why the forest service people are praying so earnestly for rain why rain why all of us whether we join in the prayers or not should be extra careful as we travel through the forests until there is a good downpour |