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Show MEASURING WATER OF THE PRICE AT HELPER SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 1. The lowest discharge records in the history of the streams of this state are expected to be reported re-ported by engineers of the water resources department of the local office of the United States geological survoy during tho coming week. The engineers will leave Monday to make measurements of the streams. The figures are expected to be of vital importance to power concerns which now hnve, or at future times may construct, con-struct, plants on the streams. Agricultural interests will oIbo bo interested in the reports. E. A. Porter, district engineer, stated today that for some time Cast the rivers of the eastern and southern parts of the stato have een unusually low, and within the past week some of them have frozen up. During the cold weather, the discharge ia always low, and from tho fact that tho flow was low in nenrly every river prior to the cold spell, it is expected that tho discharge now will mark a low record for nearly every stream. Lynn Crandall, one of tho cntlnefers, will leave Monday night for Green River to measure tho Green river. He will also measure the Grand river at Cisco, tho Duchesne near Myton, Lake Fork near Myton, the Strawberry river at Duchesne, Ashley Creek near Vernal, the Price river near Helper, the San Rafael fifteen miles west of Green River town nnd nil tho Castle Valley streams, in- pBflfJ eluding the Huntington, Cottonwood and Fcrron rivers. H Ice gorges havo been reported in the Green river near the city 1 of Green River. Accurate reports concerning them, however, have H not yet reached Porter's office, and ho was unable to make any 1 statement about the condition there now. |
