Show I SMALLER TOWNS Of UTAH SOON TO AVE WEATHER BUREAUS Director Thiessen LooKing for Volunteer Observers in Many Places The exceptional growth of the farm farm- in lag ing especially districts in in 1 various n. n Mn parts of Utah I th the lias local caused A A. H H- lessen di director e t C of f I weather bureau to start a to campaign u for a much rauch m more re extensive Thiessen weather service ding According to Mr the weather s-eather stations of the the state are c very poorly distributed and weather service is s not as valuable as it might be Arrangements are under way to ex CX- Kane Aane tend the service through many many parts of San Tuan Juan Grand Uintah Wasatch Box Elder Juab and Millard l counties Mr Thiessen is is' in cation with officials in in the following towns ill in which it is the ambition of the tho local bureau to have rainfall and temperature tern tem stations Bluff BlIff and Goodridge in San Juan Tuan county coun- coun ty MI ureah in Kane county Caine Caine- vule ville and in Wayne county Boulder in iii m Garfield county Bonanza Oura Ouray Bridgeport an and Manila M nila in in Uin Uil- tah Alexander in Wasatch Harper in iii Carbon Trout dreek week meek in Juab West Por Per Portage tage and Grouse creek in in Box Elder Eider county The Tho establishment of stations at these points will wili be the starter for a general spread of the service ice into other parts It is the ultimate hope bope of Mr Thiessen to establish temperature stations sta sta- sta at distances of twenty miles throughout the state where there is any use for them m. m Rainfall stations will be beat beat beat at intervals inter gauged au ed according to the topography of the Mr Thiessen says that the topography has but little to to todo do with the temperatures temperatures tempera tempera- tures in localities but mountains an another and other natural features affect the rainfall rain rain- fall materially and therefore make male need for rainfall stations placed acco according to topo topography raphy The scarcity of railroads or stage lines into the outlying districts has been one of the reas reasons ns for the comparatively small number of outside stations It has lias been impossible to get tret information from the inaccessible localities bat I with the opening up up of arid land tracts dry farming districts and the enlargement enlargement enlargement enlarge enlarge- ment of the farming territory the he extension of th the weather service is deemed possible and desirable Each new station will be supplied with a maximum and a mi minimum thermometer thermometer thermometer ther ther- and a re regulation government rain guage These will be furnished with shelters and other equipment and the persons in charge of the stations will take daily readings This work is s done gratis and ana is ordinarily undertaken under under- taken aken by some person who wishes accurate accurate rate data regarding his section of the country to be made public all over the United States The work does good oo in two ways Ites It gives es the farmers farmers' accurate information on which to guage their actions in m the agricultural line and it gives the communities communities com coat advertising as to their clima clima- ical advantages |