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Show ' Faces iouth, Says state Engineer ' .-..fs another drouth slmi-( slmi-( 0j 1934 unless conditions S. if the better during the " ' or four months, and all ! 'tns and water users are ,' ,j State Engineer T- H. ' B to take every precaution conservation. In a letter .'commissioners of the state, X -phries reviews conditions orth the fact that the rain-: rain-: ."fte summer and fall of '.( . below normal, result- i-ery dry and baked soil con- aid a general lowering of t i water table." He fur- ;s that "unless there be an jmount of rainfall during o a a repetition of the drouth i'. appears to be inevitable." : ..commissioners and water 6 't asked by Mr. Humphries ate on a systematic pro- conservation embracing JiflMtp frr cfluinp 3 rt all water not now used aaking up storage or other-i other-i ; beneficially used, for the ir-s ir-s jon of the ground to facili-I facili-I . fall plowing and making 6 jres. 3, where practical and I :i spillway capacities are 1 :iate, the gates of reservoirs 1 ; thus provide all possible !l rt, at the mouth of the on onto adjoining gravelly 13 lulls, small mountain :i ais to supplement the un-ci un-ci round water supply. ' , by plug, cap or valve, all 1 sian wells not now used for A 'ary and stockwatering pur- H '.. - a Humphries stresses the need s ening artesian water re-u re-u by citing the fact that there at 35,000 artesian wells in e of Utah, aoout iiu.uuu 01 x "running wild" and wast- s , :. this source alone, we are .j : in the state, from Novem-!e Novem-!e to April 1st in each and ear, at least 150,000 acre later, enough to irrigate ade- for an entire year 50,000 t -an area equal to that irri-tj irri-tj a any year from Utah Lake 6 :dan river, or from the Bear ,. anal in Bex Elder county." |