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Show 2S' Engineer Asks Irrigators To Conserve Water t I' . Although the pending water , shortage in Utah this year is not nearly so serious as it was in 1934, 1 careful conservation of supplies is l justified, and all water users should .will begin at once to make plans for the most successful use of iwater this season, advises George D. in Clyde, irrigation engineer of the B Utah Agricultural experiment sta-jm sta-jm tlon in a recent report of snow It surveys and water-supply forecasts. Ditches and canals should be cleaned early so that the early flow ray be fully utilized. Leaky head-- head-- J gates should be repaired, Professor 1Q Clyde advises. Due to absence of snow on low lit' elevations of all watersheds of the state, unusually high water during tie spring runoff is not to be expected. ex-pected. H:wever, high runoff for a i io' days is possible if a comhina-tiou comhina-tiou of tempera ture and spring pre-. pre-. co Station develops to melt high , snow at a rapid rate. All reservoir dners should examine their spill- ! Is ays and outlet works, clean and It MDair trash rar.k.s and see that the ..yLV Kite operating devices are in work-I work-I tag order, Professor Clyde advises 1 Ci; tn &e rePort. I If1 It was found in the surveys that It'; the snow cover on Utah watersheds k very "spotted" this year. It CMitalns considerably less water than last year. Low snow has Dlted on all watersheds of the q state; and there has been consider-ble consider-ble pre-April melting on high . areas. Ikt Ground under the snow cover Is uniformly saturated. In spite of ST.ature melting there has been "itle rise In t.ie streams, Indicating t t snc'w cover losses this year W be relatively heavy. In gener-, gener-, J. the later content of the snow . shortage will occur in southern Ijjl Utah cn Sevier and Virgin rivers, " eastern Utah or Uintah basin streams except the Duchesne and fnce rivers. Conditions on the wa-mshed wa-mshed ln central and northern Utah are somewhat better, the re- . n Port shows. I A tt.Rucoff in 1938 on most of the llfsliedS in the state was fairly vW, and no serious water shortage ebped. This year, however, fC 1 snow cover of 50 to 80 P61 HJ) nt of that in 1938 some serious 4l, lr,, shortages are likely to deve-U( deve-U( ,7 ,n streams 'which have no stor-17' stor-17' t"1 Iacilit:es. Water users holding t,,ary rights to natural flow will stW most ereat'y- Those having rage rights or a combination of if- t86 tnd Primary rights will suf-le- no shortage. iht |