Show 1 TILE JIE ONCOMING l TER TERl l gOY Dutch l as any of us dread the rigors of a severe winter yet we WC all hope that this oncoming one will be especially plentiful is is snowfall And to be so it must be a hard winter ti It is necessary to fill the big reservoir our farming is absolutely absolutely ab- ab dependant upon that we must have the water For several years we have suffered for lack of water there having been light snowfall for the past four seasons The watershed became dry each season before winter set in so that what rain rainor or snow did fall quickly disappeared into the soil not getting into the reservoir This year fortunately we have had more rainfall and the ground is wet vet to begin with So when snow does fall it is very probable it will run off into the Impounding impound impound- ing darn dam Then we can draw on it as needs of irrigation demand demand de- de mand during next neat season So we all hope for a severe winter one abundant in snowfall snow snow- fall lots of storms and in that respect disagreeable disagree table ble for a greater good |