The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-02
WEATHER MAN IS
GOOD TO UTAH
New Bureau Station for Salt
Lake Valley, Outside of City
Now Assured.
WILL BE OF BENEFIT
TO THE DRY FARMERS
Establishment of Many Addi-
tional Rainfall Stations in
State Planned.

Announcement has been made from
the local United States weather bureau
to the effect that A. II. Thicssen, sec
tion director here, has succeeded In
persuading the government to appro'
pirate annually funds for the estab'
lishment and maintenance of weather
bureau for Salt Lake in the country
near Granger. This docs not mean that
the station in Salt Lake proper will be
discontinued Both the local station and
the proposed country bureau viii be
operated The bureau within the city5s
confines will furnish purely local rec
ords. while the country station. accord
ing to Mr.. Thiessen, will supply data
and information relative to the climatic
conditions that prevail in the Salt Lake
valley generally.
The reason for this step, Mr Thiessen
argues, lies in the fact that outside
parties who inquire AS to the tempera-
ture and precipitation of the valley
with q view toward establishing. farms
here or taking up residence In the sur
rounding country, receive their infor-
nation from the records of the city
bureau proper, which arc not accurate
figures with regard to country coudi'
tions.
Valley Not Like City.
Mr.. Thiessen contends that the eli
mate of Salt Lake is what the weather
experts term artificial, " being great
is influenced by closely set buildings
varying III height. paved streets, roofs,
heat-drawing structures and other con
structions or surfaces found in heav"
ily populated community Under these
conditions. and with the weather ap-
paratus standing on top of the Boston
building. l42 feet above street level.
where il feels strongly the various ra-
diations. the temperature in the city
proper, Mr. Thicssen saws. is by no
means the same as that existing over
the adiacent territory. The proposed
new country station will give pros
pectiye settlers true md accurate
account of climatic conditions In sec
tions where agricultural inducements
are offered. showing what the country
is particularly adapted for by virtue or
its temperature, precipitation, soil and
weather changes.
According TO Mir Thiesscn S dcscrip-
tion, the new station Will be established
about fourteen miles southwest of Salt
Lake and one and one-half miles south
and one mile west of the Granger meet
y
far enough from the city to be excluded
from cosmopolitan influences and
will be erected at about the same
height as that of the Boston building
station Ii has not vet been made
known the exact annual appropriation
the government viii make.
Incidental TO the nboye-announced
step. Mr. Thiessen has also inaugu-
rated n movement to secure an addii
tional number Of stations throughout
the state, to meet the growing demand
for information about dry farming con
ditons and prospects. Already Mr.,
Thiessen has written TO Washington
asking permission to issue series of
bulletins to cover this want He will
later 90 10 the national capital him.
self to work out and fully complete the
plans.
Benefit to Farmers.
Within the past two years about
forty rainfall stations have been estab-
lished in Utah, which have meant a
considerable amount in dollars and
cents to the dry farmers. Commen-
surate with the development of the
dry farming industry in this state, Mr.,
Thicssen now proposes TO add still more
stations in the near future, some of
them being posts at Vernon, in south
cTn oOeic COUNTY, flUtTlCHue. w HSnlHS-
ton county. Collinston, Box Elder coun-
tv; louisville. Summit county; River
ton, Salt Lake county. and Dog Valley.
west Of Ncphi in Juab county. These
locations are all in the center of prom
ising drv farming areas.
Mr. Thiessen S plan is to issue a bull
letln about April of each year showing
up accurately conditions as they have
prevailed since October of the pre-.
ceding senson, and forecasting to some
extent the weather conditions that may
follow, This. it is held. will be of in
estimable benefit to dry farmers, par
ticnlarly IN the matter of conserving
moisture, which is so vital matter
to the industry. Mr.. Thiessen also
plans TO issue weekly bulletin dur
ing the growing season, These reports
will be compiled from data received
through the many stations throughout