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Show MERCURY RISES IN UTAH AREA Temperatures rose slightly In most Utah areas Wednesday and the federal weather bureau forecast fore-cast a continuation of fair weather for Salt Lake City and vicinity In the evening and Thursday. Coalville, Summit county, where the thermometer has been going below zero the past week, reported report-ed one degree above Wednesday morning. The same temperature was recorded at Enterprise, In Washington county. Salt Lake City's minimum was the, same as Tuesday. 19 degrees above aero. The maximum Tuesday Tues-day was 37 degrees, making a mean for the past 24 hours of 28 degrees, only one below normal. Snowstorms hit northern Montana, Mon-tana, but federal observers saw no prospects of Utah storms In the next two or three days. ' Meanwhile, George D. Keyser, city commissioner In charge of the city water department, studied reports re-ports on the water content of snow on the local watersheds. Water content at Brighton was reported Tuesday"below thafof the past two years on the . same date. Commissioner Keyser said Mountain Moun-tain Dell reservoir In Parley's canyon, can-yon, one of the city's water sources, will fill this year. It now contains 1556 acre feet and Its capacity is 3200 acre feet. Although It Is too early to forecast fore-cast exact water conditionl for next summer. Commissioner Keyser Key-ser said, he expressed the belief Salt Lake residents need have no fear of a shortage of culinary water wa-ter In 1940. City wells, which he said are In good condition, can be depended on for 50 per cent of the supply, If necessary. City department observers completed com-pleted another check Wednesday, showing 38 Inches of snow In City Creek canyon, which contained 8.9 inches of water. Comparative figures fig-ures are not available for that area In other years. Snow measurements at other points In City Creek were found to be as follows: Cottonwood forks, 37 Inches; Rotary grove, 26 inches: North fork 22 inches; Box Elder grove, 18 inches. Storms Brighten Crop Outlook Storms during the past week throughout the state have brightened bright-ened the crop outlook for next summer, the federal weather bureau bu-reau reported Wednesday in its weekly crop report. Winter wheat, the report said, is In a favorable condition as a result of the storms. Important watersheds water-sheds In the Wasatch range received re-ceived large quantities of snow to quiet fears ot a water shortage. |