Show MAINTAIN I 1 ahk fib sl bl k it is coming to be believed that the em existence stence of the salton sea is responsible foi the unheard of precipitations that have been occurring over anzoni and southern utah and ne nevada ada bior for the past eight months it is reported that there is three feet of sno i at pioche and ten to twelve tielve feet in the mountains north As last summer was rn in irked there by the happening of daily sho shontis ah Neis an unheard of thing pioche people argue that the formation of the salton sea roust must be responsible for it the oration from the new body of vater v ater is said to account for the unusual precipitation over so wide an extent of territory to the east cast and the hope is ev pressed that the sea will continue to form and be allowed to domain in existence it ib it claimed that the evaporation results in even in nc new mexico oer land that has al wai a 9 been dry and arid and the reaper is of the op nion that the unusual fall of moisture in this part of the state for the past tel tele e months has been due to the salton sea gea it is the only body of water whose evaporation can extend into the arid and section if this is III true it would be a good thing for the goern government ment to maintain this great inland sea aca instead of trying to haie ha e the colorado river turned back into its channel and salton valley again become a waste the immediate damage it has done cannot lie be undone and the damage it may ay do in the near future will be oft off ft t many times over b the good it will do to portions of arizona alid 1 and baah b furnn furnishing hing moisture which nill arile the III dai and barren hills hill with a prolific vegetation and enable the farming of large sections of country countr hitherto because of lak lack of moisture the goern government ment before it orders that the salton va valley I 1 ley shall be es topped should have hae a thorough investigation made of this matter and if the conclusion chall be found foun d as held by the deop people ae of this arid and countr it could not undertake a reclamation project of greater magnitude than by allowing the salton sea to remain |