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Show IVaSer Brings $1 Barrel in Drouth AUSTIN, TEXAS. Fall rains have alleviated a drouth which turned up many eccentricities dur-ging dur-ging late summer months. At Aspermont in the high plains area drinking water sold for a dollar dol-lar a barrel. Also near Aspermont, the Salt fork uf the Brazos, the state's mightiest might-iest river, became a dry channel one day. then was running 25.000 cubic feet a seennd the following day. Two large reservoirs of the Lower Colorado river system had evaporation evapo-ration in excess of inllow. Wichita Falls, busy wheat and industrial in-dustrial city, prepared for a drouth by completing an additional reservoir reser-voir capable of holding 100.000 acre-feet of water. But the branch of the Little Wichita river, which I' was expected to fill the rescr-j rescr-j voir, failed to icspund. |
