Show BIG STO STORM RM HITS UINTA BAS IN General Snow And Rain St Storm rm Covers Entire Basin And Adds To Large Largo Water Vater Supply AllRead All Read Ready Assured Last Saturday night just before before before be be- fore the dawn of another day a drizzling rain began falling over the entire Uintah Basin with snow sno in the mountains And it just rained all night and well Into into into In in- to the morning Sunday March 20 Before noon large flakes of snow came as temperatures dropped but the snow was very wet melting o oVer er most of the basin basin basin ba ba- baI ba- I sin as fast as it fell i It was a wonderful storm for forthe forthe forthe the moisture delivered as well asfor as asfor asfor for the fact that it soaked into the ground in hi the lower areas and helped to melt away the snow on the higher benches Roads testified testified testified fied to the unusually large amount of oj moisture Off the state highway highway high high- way traveling was not easy andon and andon andon I on this graveled road it was not any lovely surface That rain and snow was a soaker the like of which we dont don't get very often Every indication is that spring weather retarded now two or three weeks by the unusually heavy heavy heavy hea hea- vy snow of the winter period will dawn on onus us all at once Plowing may inay on d' d down towards Ouray now while snow still lays layson on alfalfa fields on benches one oneto oneto oneto to two thousand feet higher Plowing will be good even if feed and seed are short |