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Show COLSD) SPELL OS -BREACSflMQ 1WM" PROMISES PROPHET Slightly Cloudy Skies May Come With Rising Temperature. EXTRA MEASURES FOR BUSINESS HOUSES i Gas and Electric Light Companies Report Conditions Condi-tions Satisfactory. i Tbs back of the cold wave which has i held Salt Lake City ia Its grasp sine Saturday aUght is broken, according Jto A. H. Ihleseeo, section director of the United Stales weather borea l in this city, and relief may be expected I at once. I "The tomperattu will rise (Tsdn I all v." ha said, "aa tha hi eh iru wklrk Induct a low Umparatur U moTtntf to-wtr4 to-wtr4 tha ust. Tba IndicaUou foii tiongly to tmrnotiuu rtlUf, ud U.r In aot Moch probabUitj tliai ct will bo touched again daring this parlod," Tho water situation fa relieved greats ly by reason of tbe fact that millioaa of galloua of water have been turned into tha city water mains from irrigation service outside tbe eitr, and from ffiir-plua ffiir-plua waters in tbe sou then part of the district from which tbe water aupply ia recaired. The water pressure U atill dangerously danger-ously low, .and tbe most drastic measures meas-ures are being take-n by the superintendent superinten-dent of waterworks, tho police and tbe tire departments to prevent the waste of water io households, linger ia still imminent that if ore were to originate iu tbo huMneea district aad gain auy headway great damage might Ire Inflicted In-flicted because of tbe lack of water. Several schools remain, closed because of tbo lack of watr to operate tbe steam beating plants, hot the situation is generally better today than It waa vt-sterday and last night. WATER WAGONS HAVE TELEPHONE SERVICE The man 00 tbe water wagon saved tbe day for tha Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph company. But for bin timely aid tbe great central ex . haoge would have been compelled to shut down because of tha cold aad the lack of water in tho eitr water mains to permit the company to maintain tbe steam heating plant. Local officials of tbe company took tbe situation in baud last nigut, as soon aa tbe water supply went low, and chartered char-tered a fleet of sprinkling earts, which were put into service at once. This fleet of carta hauled water throughout the night and today from the we-tern part of the city, beyond the railroad tracks, and this was puinpad into tbe boilers. In this way tbe steam waa kept up to normal pressura and the 2"0 or more telephone operators wire enabled to work. The temperature in the eiehange room was maintained during all of last tiiffht and today at degrees, say the officials, which ia tbe normal degree of heat. Tbe telephone company fur-iiishe fur-iiishe 1 what heat waa available last 1 nitfbt for tbe halt Lake theatre, turn- j ing the steam into the theatre service short I v before th, curtain arosa for the1 first performance of "Tbe Butterfly on 1 the Wheel. ' Thoucrh tbe bouse was somewhat colder than ia uiual, tbe patrons of the oi oncer playhouse were able to ait throutrh the performance by the liberal uao of their wraps. JORDAN RTVPW W1.ANT SALVATION. 8ATB WELL Although the city la virtually Had up In irrmnv lines by th extreme -old whloh has j f ron the mountain streams auppMne- the water srrk-e with the neveeaary fluid. to eleotitcal situation ts wll in hand. ac-ording to Joseph A. Walla, arsiMtral man-er of tha tuh Light and (Hallway coiiipsuiy. "Tha auxiliary stutm plant on tha bank of the Jordan rlcr h.i btn our saUa-tion." saUa-tion." sad Mr. Walla I hia morning. Tuat plant la inakui up all of the deficiency of tune nt from all other plants. "The water plants urs In a little bet-tar bet-tar condition than yssterday. In Oadsn ran von th-a temparatura waa reported thla morning to be ia deareea below sro. The plant Is delivering 00 kilowatts aa compared com-pared with a normal delivery of froOo kilowatts. kilo-watts. The Cottonwood plant reports 4 degree de-gree below asro. and the output ts 10 k I low lis. aa compared with :rt0 at normal. nor-mal. "The Dnvll's Osite plant Is 1HiHna 110A kilowatts of tie normal 4iy0, and the temperature Is reported U degress below be-low sro. o''The steam plant la fllllna alt tha de-flclerwv. de-flclerwv. and Is doing splendidly. 1 do Continued ou page 10.) COLD SPELL M oaf iniied from pngw 1.) nut Iveiteva that the eot.-ftsmers of light sod poasr ned fesr any serious shortage." |