| OCR Text |
Show DEEP SNOWFALL BLANKETS iNK PARTS OF STATE Storm Conditions Result in Benefit to Stockraisers and Wheatgrowers; Traffic Traf-fic Interruptions Slight Air mail service bath east and westbound was aSseontinued today bscaus'a of storm conditions an the alt Lake to Elko, Nov, let and Salt Lake to Rock Springs, Wye, leg. Pilot Paul P. Ssott attempted tha flight frem Salt Lake to Elko, but wae forced to turn back after eight mmutss in tha air.. He was almost I lost in tha blinding snowstorm, but suoeeeded In finding his way baek to Woodward field. Utah during the past twenty-four hours hss experienced an exceptionally exception-ally heavy snowfall, with practically every section of the state affee'ed except the southern portion. Home unimportant traffic delays were reported, re-ported, but In the msin storm conditions condi-tions resulted In much good to the state at large. Weather bureau reports showed s precipitation In Halt Lake upu to ( a. m. today ng 1.01 Inches. A considerably con-siderably greater precipitation was apparent throughout tha day. Highways High-ways were blocked In many sections of tha atsts and travelers by auto-I auto-I mobile were stalled In msny cities snd towns. Anxious Inquiries reached tha weather bureau, from all points, but Indications were that travel could not be safely resumed until tomorrow at the earliest. The weather reports indicated lhaf tha storm would continue for another twenty-four hours, although a rising barometer at noon may bring clear weather tomorrow. All canyons In the vicinity of Halt Lake are clogged with the heavy snowfall. Tha storm will doubtless be followed by a cold snap of minor aevcrlty. STOCKRAISERS HELPED. The storm wit reported as a godsend god-send to stockraisers, who sre now sending their cattle Into the desert ranges with no fear -of lack of water. Grains are benefited, hut th heavy Snow may hnve a tendency to rs-.tard rs-.tard beet digging. Apples still on the trees will likely suffer from freealng and The weigbr of Thar snow may break down limbs. Minor Interruptions snd delsys resulted re-sulted to tha street railway system and also steam railroads entering Halt Lake today as a consequence of the storm. Between hero and Ogden the snowfall snow-fall was sbout equal to that In Halt Lake, according to officials of ths Oregon Hhort Line. North of Ogden the storm waa confined to a light snow and rainfall, ffouth snd eaat over tha Denver eV Rio Oranne Weat-ern Weat-ern railroad, the snowfall was general to Green River, Utah. Hnow collecting on overhead wires and In switches of the street railway, caused slight delays. At no time, however, wss service suspended on any line. AUGMENTS WATER SUPPLY. Mayor C. Clarence Neslen and officials of-ficials of the city waterworks de-psrtment de-psrtment were overjoyed at the continued con-tinued i.nowfsll. The high water content con-tent of tjie snow, sccordlng to ths msyor, hss removed the necessity for placing restrictions on the use of water. wa-ter. Several days ago, Hunerintendent H. K. Burton of the waterworks department, de-partment, announced that the reserve reservoirs of the water system were becoming seriously depicted owing to continued warm weather and that restrictions re-strictions would hsve to be placed on consuumptlon unless a storm occurred oc-curred or the dally use was lessened. les-sened. ' The announcement of a' water shortago caused considerable shrfnk-sge shrfnk-sge In the dally uae of water, but the poaalhlllty of restrictions waa definitely def-initely eliminated by ths annwatorm. "Tha water department will have no mora troubles until ths 'freexe' comes." tha mayor said. |
