Show Pl N TO ME MEASURE SU E SUPPlY Of I To determine as 48 accurately as p possible tho the amount of oC water that will mil be available 1 i for use In Salt Sail Lake Lak this year cat the the- ell city commissioners ls this morning decided to adopt a suggestion made by Director A AIL H. H Thiessen of or the local weather bureau that snow and Ier measurements be mado made In CIt City Creek alii and Big Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot- Cot canyons In and In accordance accordance accordance accord accord- ance with a system that liaR has been successfully suc sue Inaugurated by tho the United Slates States weather bureau Mr Ir n In Inform Informs Informs In- In forms form the city commission that the local load bureau will operate co with the city In securing c the necessary data Tho system In use Ie b by the federal weather bureau and which i has been successfully suc suc- tried out In several Western states stales s as LS well Ten as 35 s everal eral In tho the East Is made remarkably accurate b by combining snow and water measurements Snow V gathered In snow Know tubes Is te reduced to water and end based upon the depth and density density den den- sit sity of ot tho the snow figures s showing the supply sup ply ly to bo bu expected from this tIlts UCO O In Indifferent indifferent dl different crent sections are secured The Tho condition condition con con- of oC the ground round under the tho snow no whether soft or frozen Is also abo taken Into consideration The Tile aero acre feet flow taken talen at the wiers combined with tho snow computations tell tho the story of or the summers summer's summers summer's sum sum- mers mer's supply according to weather bp bp- reau Tho The snowfall In the mountains during December am and January Is generally de depended depended depended de- de upon to furnish the greater part rt of the tho city's water supply for the Cite folloWing followIng following follow follow- ing yc year r. r Reports that have ha reached the Cite thenea nea weather bureau end the waterworks de department department de- de Indicate that the supply this year will be more or le less leas s limited Judging b by tho the snowfall to date In the watersheds In lit n man many places It Is said to bo be less leES than half hair what Is required to pla place the city's supply at norm normaL a L |