Show 5 Small Towns To Experiment With Rainfall Scientific is creating considerable Interest In many dry sections of the Five small communities In Montana recently formed the Northwest Montana Rain Increasing association and employed a firm of precipitation engineers to Increase the amount of rainfall in their The towns are Circle and In past rainfall has been Increased from a minimum of 50 per cent to per cent over normal in southeastern southern Colorado and northern New Ranchers Form Association A somewhat similar organization was formed at The group was formed by ranchers and business men from Arapahoe and parts of Weld The area Is composed of acres which are favorable to rain and snow The cost of Is relatively small around 10 cents per acre foot in the Ranchers and farmers agreed they would gladly pay more of excellent other news was on the front pages of newspapers in the Ulster New filed a claim for against the city of New York that artificial operations In the Esopus creek watershed on or about November 25 and had caused the waters to reach flood proportions thereby damaging bridges and The town of Shandaken also filed a claim against New York City charging that Wallace the Manhattan precipitated the devastating flood which caused much havoc In the area In Small Towns Sue New York City while admitting having done some ground seeding at Fahnestock at that would not comment on the damage Shandaken charged In its claim that roads and bridges were damaged in the extent of and that the interference by the city with natural conditions was in the nature of a The usual method of today consists of shooting silver iodide Into cloud One of silver iodide will seed a cubic mile of air from which will fall two or three times as much moisture as would The towns of and have joined in experiments in that area in the |