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Show Lion Members Learn Figures on Rainmaking Program "How do you measure the effect ef-fect of 'rainmaking'?" and "what are the results of rainmaking in adjacent counties who have contracted?"" Boyd Quate, regional manager of the Water Resources Development Develop-ment Corp, of Denver, Colo., appeared ap-peared before the Lions Club of Cedar City Monday and attempted attempt-ed to answer those two highly important questions. Mr. Quate, who works out of Richfield, related some facts and figures pertaining to Beaver and Millard counties who have contracted con-tracted with the corporation in the past three years and came up with some interesting results. Over a 25-year period that has been studied and actual precipitation precipi-tation records kept the Beaver and Millard counties have fallen just a little short, about 10 per cent, of the average of surrounding surround-ing counties, particularly to the I north and west. During the three years that these counties have had the "rainmakers" working for them their average has consistently con-sistently been about 20 per cent higher than the surrounding counties. Or, as Mr. Quate indicated, in-dicated, an average precipitation raise of about 30 per cent has taken place. 1 Verifying his figures to some extent he pointed out a similar situation in Wayne County. However, How-ever, where Wayne was about ,the average for two years, it dropped out of the program the next year and tell below the average. aver-age. In the succeeding two years the county again contracted with the rainmakers and again topped the average mark. Quate ended his discussion with a question and answer period per-iod following the lecture. He pointed out that Iron County had entered the program one year; however, they are not participating participat-ing In it at the present time. |