Pleasant Grove Review | 1938-11-04 | Page 10 | Weather Bureau Installs Gauge to Measure Rain |

Type	issue
Date	1938-11-04
Paper	Pleasant Grove Review
Language	eng
City	Pleasant Grove
County	Utah
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Creator	L. W. Gaisford
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Article Title	Weather Bureau Installs Gauge to Measure Rain
Type	article
Date	1938-11-04
Paper	Pleasant Grove Review
Language	eng
City	Pleasant Grove
County	Utah
Page	10
Creator	L. W. Gaisford
OCR Text	Show Weather Bureau Installs Gauge To Measure Rain A rain gauge has been installed by the United States weather bureau at the divide between American Fork and Provo canyons, it was announced announc-ed Saturday by Thomas A. Walker, Timpanogos cave camp ranger. The new precipitation measuring device was installed by Ash ton R. Codd, hydrographic supervisor in this area for U. S. weather bureau, assisted by Mr. Walker, who will take readings of the instrument twice a month and report them to the weather bureau. The gauge contains a chemical solution which prevents evaporation or freezing of collected moisture, making possible an accurate measurement meas-urement of the year's precipitation. Similar devices are being installed 'at high altitudes in various other I points of the west, Mr. Codd re-ported.
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc7ft0/8770715