Show State Engineer Warns Yarns Farmers of Impending V Water ater S Shortage Utah faces another drouth similar to that of 1934 unless conditions change for the better during the next three or four months and all aU Utah citizens and water ater users are urged by State Engineer T. T H. H Humphreys to take every for water conserva conserva- tion In a letter to water commission commission- era of the state Mr Humphreys re reviews reviews re re- views conditions setting forth the fact that the rainfall for the s summer et and fall fail of 1935 1835 has been below normal resulting In very ery dry and baked soil conditions and a general lowering of the ground water table He lie further states stag that unless there be an unusual unusual unus unus- ual amount of rainfall dt d during lg g the winter winter winter win win- ter a repetition of the drouth of 1934 appears to be Inevitable Water commissioners and water users are asked by Mr Humphrey to cooperate on a systematic program of conservation embracing four main expedients expedients expedients ex for saving caving water 1 Divert all water water- not row 11 used for making up storage or oth otherwise beneficially bene used for the irrigation of the ground to facilitate fall faU plowing and making pasturage 2 Close where practical and where spillway capacities are adequate the gates of reservoirs and thus provide all possible s storage 3 3 Divert at the mouth of the canyon onto adjoining gravelly foothills small mountain streams to supplement the underground water supply 4 t Close by lug plug cap or valve all artesian wells not now used for culinary cul cul- inary and watering stock p purposes Mr Humphreys stresses the need of con conserving artesian water resources by dung citing the fact tact that there are about artesian wells In the state of Utah about bout of which are run nf nine g wild and nd wasting f flam From ei this source aJ alone e. e we we ar are wasting In to the 1st to April 1st lAt In each and every year WU at least acre aue feet of or water water wa wa- ter ter- ter enough to Irrigate adequately for foran foran foran an entire year acres acres an an area equal to that Irrigated In any year from Utah Lake take and Jordan river or from the Be Bear r river canal in Box BoxElder BoxElder BoxElder Elder county |