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Show WATCHING THE SALTON SEA. Engineers May Learn Formula for the Evaporation of Water. Los Angeles, Cal. If plan which jH sclontlstB In tho employ of thr. govern- mont aro now carrying Into effect nro JH successful, onglneors will havo, within tho next fow years, what they havo jH nover hitherto had a formula of evaporation of wntor under given con- : H dltlons. Tho flold or study of tho scl- ' 9 ontlsts Is tho Salton soa, tho Inland 1 HM body of water near tho Mexican lino hJ which was, in nges past, a part of tho joi Gulf of California. M Tho govornmont proposes to keep UmtS from six to olght men on tho ground B&Swi for two years. Thoso meu will study fipJEri' tho supply of water to tho sea and jwgf, will nttempt to determine tho roces- Bur slon of tho body of wator bow much is taken by tho atmosphcro In a glvou MiW Pro. F. H. Hlgolow of tho United Brjr1 Slntos weather bureau (ibb beon ns- rTm signed to tako chargo of tho work, and m'M ho will bo assisted by tho local weath- W , or bureau members. a ' |