Show I RAIN MEANS WEALTH TO TO UTAH Precipitation To Date 48 Greater Than in Same Period of 1925 Salt Lake City A Cit A general rain over the state of at Utah is worth in the neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- of an inch Wednesdays Wednesday's Wednesdays Wednesday's Wed rain which was fairly general amounted mounted to 85 of an inch and was wap therefore not merely a million dollar doUar rain but a five Che million dollar doUar rain This conclusion Is reached b by Salt SaIt Lakes Lake's weather man J. J Cecil Alter I who uses the following line of reasoning reasoning reasoning reason reason- ing Last year ear the value of all aU of Utah's agricultural crops including sheep and livestock Ih-estock amounted to about This was produced on a total of sixteen inches inches' of precipitation tation making it a simple matter of arithmetic to determine the money value of at an inch of rain Although Wednesdays Wednesday's storm did not cover the thee e entire Ure state while the does an added value accrued an augmentation tion of all municipal water supplies Further according to Mr Alter the downpour was a timely one coming at a time when crops were badly in I need of moisture after a dry spell of two weeks thus its value was relatively relatively rela rela- I greater Beets winter and spring wheat alfalfa alfalfa al ala falfa garden crops fruit trees and andr r range grass grass In in fact all aU growing things were the beneficiaries of ot the downpour which lasted nearly twelve hours City water supplies were also I greatly helped At Mountain Dell I inches were reported and at the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon 1 inch While rain fell on the valleys snow fell on the higher mountains adding priceless moisture to the summer storage storage storage stor stor- age reservoirs |