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Show Plenty Water Assured If snow In tho mountains and mols-turo mols-turo In tho ground nro signs of plonty of Irrigation water and good crops, next season should bo far from a dry year During tho past flvo months moro moisture has fallen than for tho samo porlod during tho past four years. Slnco October 1st 7.08 Inchos Jot moisture has fnllon hero which Is considerable more than Is had on nn nverngo. lioports from Salt Lako valloy aro given below whoro moisture fall is Jusunlly about tho samo ns wo got. Tho woathor bureau has tho following I to say; "About twlco as much snow has fallen ovor tho watershed as was reported re-ported at all measuromont places at tho snmo dnto last year, tho amounts being about tho same ns In tho comparatively com-paratively snowy Jnnuarys of 191C and 1017. Tho deopost snow fields found this year In this wntorshed were ninety-six. Inches nt Silver lako, nlnoty-four inchos nt Altn, nnd ninety-ono ninety-ono Inchos nt snowstakos Nos. 1 nnd 2, near Garden City, on tho Cncho national forcsL "Tho January precipitation and the accumulated dopth of snow at tho end of tho month nro generally about GO per cent grcator ovor onstorn, Utah goncrally than nt tho samo tlmo loat year, this bolng somowhat leas than this district had in tho lato winter of Jnnunry 191G-10, nn bolng about tho same as nt tho closo of Janunry, 1917. Tho regions of southern Utah general, ly beyond tho Wasatch divide havo not had qulto cnougli precipitation during tho past autumn nnd winter Tho dcepost snow measured In tho Uintah mountains. Is north of Vernal nt stakes Nos. 88 and 85, whoro It Is slxty-four Inches nnd sixty-two Inchos deep, respoctlvoly. Tho genoral snow layer around tho Strawborry rosorvolr to tho wost is from forty-flvo to fifty-'flvo fifty-'flvo inches." |