Show RAINMAKING 5 Small Towns To Experiment With Rainfall rainmaking rainmaking rainmaking rain SIDNEY Mont Scientific making is creating considerable interest in many dry sections of the west Five small communities in Mantana Montana Montana Mon Man tana recently formed the Northwest Montana Rain Increasing association association tion and employed a firm of precipitation preci engineers to increase the amount of rainfall in their areas The towns are Sidney Savage Glendive Circle and Vida In past operations rainfall has been increased from a minimum of 50 per cent to per cent over norm normal l in southeastern Oregon southern Colorado and northern New Mexico Ranchers Form Fonn Association A somewhat similar organization was formed at Golden Colorado recently The group was formed by ranchers and business men from Jefferson Adams Arapahoe and parts of Weld counties The area is composed of acres which are favorable to rain and snow snowmaking making The cost of ot rainmaking is relatively relatively relatively re re- re- re small around small around 10 cents per acre foot in the area Ranchers and farmers agreed they would gladly pay more of excellent results Meanwhile other rainmaking news was on the front pages of newspapers in the east cast Ulster county county coun coun- ty New York filed a claim for against the city of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York that artificial rainmaking rainmaking rainmaking rain making operations in the Esopus creek w watershed on or about November November November No No- vember 25 and 26 1950 had c caused the waters to reach flood proportions proportions proportions thereby damaging bridges and highways The town of Shandaken also filed tiled fileda a claim against New York City charging that Dr Wallace Howell the Manhattan rainmaker precipitated the devastating flood which caused much havoc in the area In November 1950 Small Towns Sue I New York City authorities while I admitting having done some ground seeding at Fahnestock at that time would not comment on the damage claims Shandaken charged in its claim that roads and bridges were damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged in the extent of ot and that the interference by the city with natural conditions wa was in the nature of a trespass The usual method of ot rainmaking ing today consists of shooting silver iodide Into cloud formations Ono One of silver Iodide will seed a cubic mile of air from bom which will fall two or three times time as much moisture as would normally The towns of Longmont and Ft Collins Colorado have joined in experiments in that area in the rainmaking experiment |