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Show WEATHER STATION TO ASCERTAIN REAL UTAH TEMPERATURE Will Be Established Away ' From Disturbing Inflo- -ences in the City. What would the temperature of Salt lek have been today If the land had remained a farm lnt"ad of developing develop-ing Into an area of skyscrapers, paved streets, canyonlike streets and "heat drawing" l-rl.-k buildings? At first sight, this may seem to be a uuestlon with possibly a ime tlieoretlcal but little practical value. Yet A. H Thleseen. section director of the t'nit"1 Htates weather bureau, contends that the answer to It Is worth much In dollars and cents to T'tah. Salt Lake valley and thua to Salt Lak City as well. Accordingly. Mr. Thirssen has p rsuad-ed rsuad-ed the T'nited States government to wpend something annually- not very much, for the T'nited Htates government Is not that kindbut something annually annual-ly o find out the answer to the question. ques-tion. The money will be spent In establishing estab-lishing a weather station out In tha country, near Oranger. He argues that many of those who seek data about Salt Lake City and 4 he vlclnltv. including alt of lt Lake val-lev. val-lev. do so with the ohject of learning sjn'mwtifnr anour-ttiy-agrh'Titttirat -rmwH- tlons that prevail in the valley. Thev are farmers who plan to settle here, and want to know If the climate Is adapted to farming the particular line of crops with which thev are familiar or in the cultivation of which they Inland to en- K&jre When these men get the data afforded st the office of the weather bureau In Salt Iake City. Mr. Thlssen argues, they are gaining Information, not about the climate of Salt I-ake valley generally, but about the climate of Bait Lake City. This la largely an "artificial" climate, and local. It is Influenced In part bv the buildings, the paved streets, the roofs of buildings and the like. The fact that the weather bureau Instruments are 141 feet above the street level lias an effect. It Is not res II v the climate of Salt like valley aa a whole at all that Is recorded here. To gain accurate and exect data for be agriculturist concerning the climate of the valley, Director Thleesen will establish es-tablish a weather station In the region of Rait I-ake county called ''Granwer." The ntntlon will be known as the "country "coun-try station for Halt Lake City." The new station will be exactly at nowhere that Is to say. Its location Is deacribed as about fourteen miles southwest south-west of Salt I-ake Cltv. and one and one-half miles south and one mile west of the Oranger meeting house. It will be out in the country, fax enough from the cltv to be beyond the Influence of paved streets and tall buildings, anfr yet at about exactly the same altitude as the Inetrnmenta on the roof of the Bos-1 Bos-1 ton building. I It will give an accurate record of the I climate, so far as temperature and precipitation pre-cipitation are concerned, of Salt Lak vallev farms. And It Is temperature arid precipitation records that the farmer and the Intending fanner are looking for. |