Show EXCURSION MONDAY TO MILFORD VALLEY on monday an excursion was taken to the Al liford valley by the boys of the agricultural classes of the heaver beaver high Sell ool accompanied by a considerable number of interested citizens for the purpose of stady studying ini the quantity and movement of underground waters lit hi that valley about ten cars of people went vont down besides tile the high school boys there were I 1 mr air and mrs L E harris mr air and mrs james alakai eleber dean mrs airs jos R murdock mr all and mrs airs kent morgan supt bupt carlisle frank smith robert whito white county agent gent price mr air and mrs airs jos jackson and a number of others tito the excursion was met and cordially welcomed by dr hible bible mr air kates the weber brothers and a number of the melford lions club they were shown around the valley where they inspected anti and sampled several of the gushing wells which send forth their waters from the vast un reservoir to water tile the thirsty desert on the surface the size and discharge the cost coat of installation and the cost of operation of each well was explained the grim ins ills alfalfa fields were one threshing outfit was wag visited and the seed inspected several model chomoa were shown to the ladles ladies of the party then alien followed the climax of the trip director white of the U SP S hydrographic dro graphic survey met the edcur zionists at one of ills his stations and after showing them ills hia wells and instruments st proceeded to give an 11 illustrated lust rated lecture on the quantity and movement of tile underground water in III tile the valley the lecture was given in tile the open air on the very ground lie he was talking about above the vast reservoir of water lie ho has been studying and measuring for the last three e years ills his charts wells and plant plats were before the crowd tor for inspection spec tion according to mr white the water table lies between 8 and 12 feet from the surface in the lower end of the valley and in gradually getting deeper as tile the valley rison rises to the south during the last three years which I 1 havo have been unusually dry the general water table lias lowered somewhat very little of the writer water leaves the reservoir by the way of run off underground most of it is taken up lip by transpiration of tile the plants and by evaporation the later method however is not considerable no evaporation taking panco at all from below seven feet mr air white explained ills his method of measuring the rise and fall of the water table ile ho uses tile same ramo kind kill of instrument that is used by the U S department in measuring running st streams reanis for power and irrigation purposes lie ile is the first engineer who has adapted this meter to this purpose lie ile drills his well down clown into the hie free water then places a float upon the surface of the water the float is attached to the machine above which in turn Is operated by a clock writing every change across a chart it requires two weeks to cutely correct if not interfered with mr air white showed that the water tahle table raised several inches during each night and lower during the day due to transpiration of the plant life on the surface about 10 a ni as aa the plants begin to drink their dally daily supply of water the machine begins to record a sinking of the water table during the night they seem to td rest and tife the water table gradually cornea comes back to normal even the native salt grass and grease woods showed a remarkable use of water during their growing season after the growing season is over or in plowed fields the machine records a straight line across the chart ing CO conclusively nelu that the accelerations recorded during the growing grower ig se season ason are flue duo to the transpiration ration of plants at mr r white has demonstrated that it requires 1135 lbs ibs of water to produce ono one pound of dry alfalfa fit I 1 fa according to mr white the greatest undeveloped resources of boutil southern utah are its underground waters lie says with this water brought to the surface tho the country can easily sustain twice the present population most of tills this water is accessible at a cost that will enable ordinary agriculture to return profits mr white impresses one with tile the thorough thoroughness liness of his knowledge of tile tha subject iio he lins has been studying till tills problem for the last three summers in tilts valley and has nin mn de discoveries co never before known ills iha lie headquarters aro at washington D C and lie ho has been sent directly by the department to make this special investigation this la Is ills last sea son here however as lie ho Is now called to work on tile tho mississippi flood control problem |