Show Winter Reigns 26 Miles From Main Street Brighton Cabin in Roofs Are Piled With Snow r. r k k rv t w wi id i F d F DT la u a ai i i W a r i it t war v e 1 it a HA 8 4 r a wt c t 4 n t a i as k w 5 i k kr r 1 r A C e t nC n S. F 7 by ea t o a w i r a tk i k p e M a b r t v i C f t r t iwi a ti YV f a a irh t P kL M r rt ry ryr t h ati P y av i 7 f. f g. g f r 3 6 ya A y t lat i e 9 f a e 1 i t ta t a L. L aria 1 a 1 Pictured above is a scene at Brighton taken during the week Harry Hammond I city weather observer is shown playing around h his s cabin which has an und passage pas I tl sage from the garage to the house I A Y Winter In beauty in aU all Its hard realities reigns only twentysix twenty twenty- six mlles miles from Main street street-at at Brighton Some may think it a a. tar far cry from Salt Lakes Lake's spring sunshine to snow and scenes But a hop into the Wasat Wasatch b range zange now places I ones one's feet in a seven foot blanket of snow with temperature did aU all that go with it it to make winter Those spots familiar to most most Salt Lakers for or h having visited them Q rIng r- r Ing summer Bummer months for a brief re- re A spite from the city's heat the summer sum sum- mer cabins of many and the entire settlement of Brighton have not yet et thought ot of breaking bleaking the hibernation hibernation hiber- hiber nation fOr the summer of 1927 SNOW COVERS ROOFS Snow Is plied piled over the cabins cabins' roofs The byways are yet onlY traversable on snowshoes or skis Harry Hammond observer for the city water department does not even know that spring has come until he straps on his skis and slides down Big Cottonwood canyon for a conference with his chief H. H K Burton superintendent of of the water department depar On Harrys Harry's last visit to the city he be brought evidence to substantiate ate all he has been telling about last winters winter's snowfall at Brighton I A miner from Alta visited the observer observer ob- ob server the day before he left for Salt Lake and Harry Induced the former to take some kodak pictures of familiar scenes of the mountain resort in winter disguise The pictures and Mr Hammonds Hammond's regular reports on the condition of the watershed leave lea no doubt in minds of water department officials that Salt Lake will have an abundant abundant dant supply of culinary water during during dur- dur ing the coming summer That Is unless an unforeseen and unusually warm spring and early summer are In store to melt the snow much faster than It can be caught and stored in In r reservoirs 96 INCHES OF SNOW Two weeks ago there was approximately approximately ap- ap proximately 96 Inches of f snow snow- packed on the watershed Temperatures Temperatures Tem Tem- thus far have been conducive conducive con con- to preserving the precipitation tion contained In this snow It will be weeks Mr Hammond saId before he will be able to walk walkout walkout out of his cabin door and see the horizon without climbing a flight of snow stairs leading to to the level Likewise he said It will be that length of time or longer before he will tear down the portable tunnel leading from the rear door ot of the cabin to the commissary house where fuel and food supplies are kept Instead of a a. refrIgerator the commissary Is equipped with a compartment Isolated against low temperature to keep keep- perishables from freezing too hard While he awaits spring the observer observer ob- ob server contents himself readIng reading read read- Ing aile anti listening to radio programs broadcast from any anyone one of the many stations located between betwee n San Francisco and New York City On his tube one set he dials In the most distant stations more efficiently efficiently effi- effi than a more powerful receiver receiver re- re could be manipulated elsewhere else- else where than In a cabin atop the Wasatch Wasatch Wa- Wa satch range |