Show M U basuk IN IN I 1 FORMAT FOR I 1 R T KI I 1 farmers may anu know driel DrI definitely tl y the number of acre feet in the hills available utah I 1 weather bureau officials catherin Ga gathering therin g data kt mile all 11 tile R ot distant I 1 t f r it is the belat 0 lake C it v wither t ither bureau officials tile th duio t stalk who uhl io i lit mill w 11 be ubie to un in tilt IN 4 alliott katl the num br 6 r ot are rt of ater that tul fa sturt 1 I up for t ilir III I lins blenc vl enc thi is do ds alt 1 bull JU juht jut t boned by lard 11 taits tn editor W and aid J cecil kiter vcr u the th a silt tit luke lake ilav stat on ulle i a b h 1 that haa has b in lit mad in this dinc unction tion not a ry laret asla ning ing it la 6 true and kad yet et to thu it la is quite tit bir for the bumm ro to aster bertain tala just hov much vs iter y it hiva lye a a h ind I 1 ilie lie value of sm aich h knowledge kiv ledge to t it I 1 illah in the thel I 1 pinion lion of the m eather weather bureau burau ill I 1 it and anti they have explained just N M f t t rho ho purpose la Is foi fat example 0 irrigation engineer t it it ith definite knon knowledge ledge of the of water in lit the form of no and ice tee stored up in the kie gie it t bins of the wasatch und and other lath he could in many to in enlarge the area a under the tanal i of n irrigation system as much aa 10 per cent in other word a protea L that would under ordinary condition conditions be built to sup ply m bilty thousand thoua and acres conid ill 1 dafin knowledge ledge of ane actual cond one of 0 allow in the itsou litzius lita ius be increased to fifty five thousand airee sires allowing homes for in ili my iny more farmere farmers under the tract and a t corresponding increase in the tile wealth of the state sn sit lups lols to cupi li 11 a aarnio it Is further explained with ith the knowledge that the supply of moisture mol sture stored up in the mountains ie is light could plant nuch much crops ie is require but a sm ill amount of irritation irria tion water ater and anti that early in hie tile season getting a fair return from front their acreage instead of ine crops that require over a long period and getting little or nothing from the land it saing of only a dollar an acre it Is pointed out nor mcky than repa repay the cost of an accurate survey jf the amount of ablio u v in the moun L ulna tins to supply the st reatus during lilt the following summer ind nit it the enoi supply in the ains ie in found to be abundant t ic f it nen ne es e n s c cm in plant trolls that e il it il it of or ahei atei is ta aured that the thai have liae a good bield or if there ie Is still an excess u the ian an sell tho tile water to adjacent landholders holders rs thus astl inc increasing the irrigated area and the proportionate bield in the district for thit year as well as increasing the cash income ot of the irrigation companies 1 aik oik I k in lit maple IL nn n on in describing the wort nork done along these lines so far thiessen and al 1 ter say in part I 1 during the past march larch u surey was ivis made of maple creek canyon according to the plan outlined above aboe this canyon Is the first one north of spanish fork Ca canaii through which the denver dener and rio grande railroad finds i passage over the wasatch Wasa loli mountains moun t ains it is a broad canyon with le fen cilc rI lc and rl relatively eliy smooth und and wa chosen or the ex perit ilent because it prevented present preen pd ted fewer natural obstacles to such a survey than am an other canon sufficiently near sal lake cit to be beadil accessible the instruments used consisted of a dennit tube and scale an aneroid barometer a compass 1 and a metal semicircle with ith plumb and pointer to secure slope angles besides the ordinary clothing snowshoes sno snow shoes and an alpenstock indispensable the distance from front the outlet of maple creek east and a to the head 0 of the longest with alth a foot measured ct fork was aa s line and an I 1 by a complete system of 0 field notes and diagrams all the important landmarks were nere located including the turns in the can canon on and all branches A map was as sketched ek etched showing the main canyon and the outlets of all the branches take man many the work thereafter then after consisted the bottom of each in going up and back and forth gulch or canyon the along the slope measuring enow now depth and density ever every thousand feet or EO reo and platting the gulch or cannou on the sketch WILP more accurately nao nary and mapping the snow areas in the canyons the contours of elevation accurately determined were pretty by frequent aneroid barometer read each in making ings the object enow snow measurement meau rement was wag to get vilua that were typical or representative senta tive tor for regions several acres in extent which will aill be corn comparable par which rom from year to year also could be located in a year or so hence from field notes made on this consisted of 01 trio rip the measurement soundings of the snow nume U me ous layer er with a U i graduated alpenstock after in apparently average places aich chich tin the go ion LOTI of aai N t L tim tilli MAI a the corage avra tp pa as removed with nith the tile hibe and weighed b blinking the ihring bethann ales 1 fro i ih 1 tit into th cuu ai at on an angle hiding ull all asecion B lua lints on the tile map VLA well as rd th nt ot of the silo io cover the tot t n rt idt ot of the watershed waa was found found to bc b about acree acres about r 0 1 1 ta 14 and fierce acres being under s enow 11 0 alu fie tle last deco dearil ic in ill almli 11 lich 1911 1912 bout two thou eind suid ao 40 ind tog ings were made with th hidu i eil ed alpenstock and 77 measurements ot of the depth and density v wt TV re tit ide ido in carefully selected representative tentative places with ith prof c F marvin n density apparatus a TI trie TIIs Is ts is nn an n of one density to each four fourteen tean aerel of nt enow snow of the depth measurements nag thirty elx in inh lies and average ater aa as 11 5 inches or 32 per cent making acre feet of water or enough to fourteen inches deep over all the land irrigated under the stream the farm acreage irrigated maple creek having been previously platted IQ ta all eases I 1 depth of the enow snow layer not the b vertical depth of the enow snow wae was measured th tube being inserted luBer ted 0 the th surface of the slopes bams 11 alj o 0 t an unusually larf large amount ot rocke rocks in the earth formation of this region there Is a great loff of water by seepage IN diether thia this water appears or not out in utah valley on or beyond mapleton bench Is not definitely known bill but it probably loee loom not appear ui ut ach place places ie in render it useful ai a floy ing wella wells tire hard to obtain however i few springs appear along the toot foot of the mount rittis at the cast edge of utah valley ind one or two farmers hae liae developed sufficient fic irrigation water anater for their fame farms by tunneling into the foothills and creating springe springs this pro hals a apparently apparent Iv not affect affected cd the riv now else elsewhere here there are BI ringa rings aleo also nt a of pi pl icen in tho tile watershed most of ot them breiling bre aking out of the north slopes ot of tho tile mountains moun taina toward the main cannon on those springs are sa said id to flow flon throughout the tile bear ear at about the awe sime rite bihun mt M i sue rhe losa los of water ater in Is very ery conspicuous in nany places a good sized stream disappearing within the apice sp jee of a few fen ards two or three miles of the main stream have been diverted from the naturally leaky bed into a ne new ditch which winds windi its way ny from the first large branch practically ull sill the way ay to maple creek outlet alven this stream varies arles in lit size through receipt and loss of on the way ay A dam I 1 proposed just below belo the mouth of right hand fork across the main canyon to be made of concrete laid on the bedrock and extending into the mountains on each sido of the canon can on which it is expected will A ill pick up much of the seepage loss occurring above alil point maple creek water ater users who mho are constructing ting the tile dam have been assured ba b certain capitalists that it eight or ten feet of water la Is picked up by the dam it will be carried to the edge of mapleton in a flume and there used for generating electric light and power and then give bik to the tile irrigators Irrl gators achen hen this work ork haa has been completed if successful tho the seepage loss will be a comparatively small factor |