Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 9 | Snow Assures Water Supply

SHOW ASSURES I WATER SUPPLY Prospect for nest summers water wa-ter supply for Salt Lake City Tuesday Tues-day appeared bright aa tha water content of snow at Brighton measured mea-sured 24 per cent above normal. K. kV Shaw.- water department patrolman, said the SO Inches of now on tha ground contained 22.T Inches of water, compared with a norma of IS inches for thia time of tha year, Tha water content, however, how-ever, was leas than last year at thia data, when 26,1 inches waa measured. mea-sured. Snowfall, be said, has been about tha same as last year but haa been drier. Fair conditions with little change In temperature were predicted for Utah Tuesday night and Wednesday aa lower temperatures wers noted over the state. Mercury Stays Dowa Salt Lake City's average temperature tempera-ture of 2 degree waa t degreea below normal, the minimum Tuesday Tues-day morning of 17 degrees being s degrees lower than Mondays mini- w mum. Bear Lake reported 14 degrees J below sero and Coalville and Soldier : Summit 10 below. Other low raad- lngs throughout tha state ware: Mllford, 20; Modena, 11; Salt Lake airport, 16; Ogden and Eureka, 15; Logan, Salt Lake terminal and Pro-vo, Pro-vo, 14; Bingham. 21; Wendover and Cutler, 4; Helper, S, and Green Riv-1 Riv-1 er, Wyo, reporting for the firattimo to the weather bureau, 12. On the Arisona strip, a rotary : snow plow cutting through wet : drifts toward a man and hi wife, who is expecting a baby, at tha V-T ranch, 26 milea south, and 29 persona per-sona snowbound at tha Union Pacific Pa-cific lodge on tha north rim of tha Grand canyon, made unexpectedly slow progress. L C Chamberlain at a lodge In Jacob's Lake said tha rotary had made only a mile and a half Monday night, being about 16 miles from Jacob's lake. Food Carried A caravan of trucks and a passenger passen-ger automobile was following the ; plow, carrying food for the couple ; at tha V-T ranch, and those at the lodge. Mr. Chamberlain said the snow plow crew may use ki and a sled to take the food to the marooned parties unless better progress is , mads through the heavy drifts.