Show y fA HEAVY V SNOWfAll COVERS VERNAL I VERNAL VERNAL Dec 31 A 31 A storm beginning beginning be be- ho- ho ginning early Wednesday day evening and continuing until nearly noon noon'S the following day brought a 1 heavy S 'S fall of snow to Vernal and Ashley valley y tho official government govern sovern- government ment observers observer's station a half mile west of ot tho the business district reports only fourteen inches measurements measurements mea mCa taken In various parts of tho the city show a depth of sixteen n nand and one-half one Inches This Is the tho heaviest snowfall in this city since November lUG 1316 when eighteen ht clInches cl inches covered the townsite RePorts Reports Re- Re Re He- ports from ou outlying districts of the valley are that the depth of snow ranges from froni sixteen to twenty inches and andIn ln th thi fo foothills nearly two feet n From Front the th Watson district fifty miles south o of Vernal only four fOUl inches of snow of I snow aro are reported report d and only thir three Inches enches from irom Ouray valley valley val vat ley miles mUes t to the south Drivers D o of mail mall trucks came cam Into Vernal Thursday evening only a d half hour late reporting seven Inches of ot new snow on the Indian canyon summit The sky on Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day evening remained overcast with slightly colder temperature following the storm At the str street et I intersections of Vernal the snow is piled plied up from three to four tour feet Leet high following tho the clearing of I sidewalks walks |