Show WATE i I f FAME LOOMS lOOM I fROM lACI LACK lAC I Of NOW I With Hills Barren and Reservoirs Reservoirs Res Res- II Only Partly Full I W Waterworks at Men l Hope for Stor Storms in Mountains fountains I S OUCH SUCH a water shortage as vas was wasO O never known before in Salt Lake will faced willbe be faced by this city next summer unless heavy snows fall during the next two months I according to officials of the city de deI department department de- de I of Waterworks and water j I I supply The present situation is regarded regarded regarded re- re j as as- asby by far tai the most moat al alarming I in the recent history of the city Ity I For its water supply in the summer I months when consumption is at at the j I peak Salt Lake depends entirely on j I that water which can be stored beI behind behind be- be beI I I hind impounding dams in the canyons canyons can can- above the city when the winter I snows melt in the spring spring- Thus little can I snow means little storage water The hulls hills on the watershed above I the city are almost as 8 barren of snow as is is the city Itself yesterday said I Allen MacQuarrie assistant superintendent I ten dent of the wa waterworks department depart depart- depart J I ment who is daily in in tou touch h With conditions Th This l warm weather veather is I melting what little there is I II RESERVOIR SHORT I. I In Parl Parleys Parley's ys y's canyon canyon canyon- the reservoir i. i is filled now to a depth of or about forty fret feet It has a depth of sixty feet and should now be filled On the City creek and Cottonwood watersheds there is almost no snow There is is not enough nough in the reservoirs of those canyons to be considered considered considered con con- at all Only heavy snowfalls in the next two months can save the city from the worst water famine in its history The situation now is worse than I have ever known it before at this time of the year The worst of it Is that there is not now any indication of a break ill fri the weather which i would give us a snowfall heavy eno enough gh to come close to making up the deficiency Salt alt Lake Late has in recent years experienced experienced ex ex- water famines So acute have they become that it has frequently frequently frequently fre fre- fre- fre been necessary to almost cut cutoff cutoff off oU entirely the s supply available for sprinkling lawns but Mr declares the brief periods of shortage previously experienced would seem only slight inconveniences as compared compared com corn pared with the trouble the city will Ill have unless plenty of snow falls within the next two months weather is also affecting pl plant nt life Commissioner Herman H. H Green of the city department of parks I and public property reports that the rosebuds in the parks paris are beginning to show red and the lilacs appear I about to bloom He fears they will I reach such a stage of development j i that future cold weather will kill off the buds meaning that there will be beno beno beno I no flowers it in the sl spring and summer Farmers throughout the county are taking advantage of the warm weather er to do their spring plowing From I some sections of the state it is re reported reported rep re- ported that fall grain is sprouting and is in a position to be he killed Incase Incase in incase case cold weather follows the present premature spring Fruit trees are e said sald to be threaten- threaten l Continued clyn on page 8 L- L SEVERE WATER Continued from page 1 lX l.- ing log to bloom and a heavy loss is la feared by the growers |