Show SNOW LIGHT LICHT AT HEAD OF RIVERS RIVER No Cause for Alarm Alarm Seen But Water Yater Economy Is Advised By Dy GEORGE 11 n EX Experiment Sta tion Available records Indicate that the snow cover on the Provo weber and nd Bear Dear river drainage areas Is less than It was In 1924 one o ot of the driest of ot the last 10 years year These rivers head headin In the same game ten gen general eral urea area near the western end of the mountain range ranee and an their head waters are arc at high elo- elo elevations ele elevations and nil rather Inaccessible this reat reaf n n there are arc no records or of the snow cover In this area The closest stations which have kept hep records record tire ore Woodland elevation feet Silver Lake Alta AHa noo Park City Daniel Daniels Daniel's creek creel station and Castle CastleRock Rock flock U O The high stations are considerably removed from the th t headwaters headwaters of ot th the above named streams and arc are used only as BS In- In Indicators In Indicators of o the tho probable snow cover er The average water content at Alta Alto I Park City Silver Lake Lako and Daniels Daniel's creek tor for the years ears 1923 1924 and 1 26 Is as follows 1923 Inch es 1924 Inches and 1926 ap- ap Inches inched While the water prospects In these areas need cause no undue alarm It should be recognized t that thata at atI I a shortage could easily Inthe In Inthe inthe the absence of abnormally high precipitation during the spring and summer eummer months and every ery precaution lion tion should be bo observed observe 1 to guard against waste In the use of or avail avail- available available able supplies The most advanced methods of Irrigation should be practiced and and waste should be bo eliminated wherever wherever wherever ever possible pos Ditch cleaning pro pro-grama pro pro- prod should 1 be bo carried out either before the spring runoff occurs oi of deferred un until III after It has passed so that all alt water waler may be utilized |