Show Oo PER PERCENT GENT MORE SNOW Ashley Forest is Fair Estimate For Water Vater Supply For Entire Basin Reliable Information During the past week weel forest rangers have measured snow and determined water content on the snow survey courses on the Ashley Ashley Ashley Ash Ash- ley National Forest Each of these courses are 1000 feet or more in length and samples are tale taken en at intervals of 50 to feet with an instrument devised especially for this purpose Not only the depth is obtained but what is of more importance the amount of water is determined by weighing each sample as it is tale taken en The surveys are made in inthe inthe inthe the last week of March each year Following are the figures for courses in Kane Hollow on Brush Creek Mountain and on Mosby Mountain l Kano Hollow 2 courses Little Brush Creek Drainage 1930 depth 35 in water content 96 in 1931 depth 16 in water vater content 54 in 1932 depth 45 in water content in l Ios Mosby y Mountain 2 courses Whiterocks River and Dry Fork Drainage 1930 depth 30 in water content content content con con- tent 86 in 1931 depth 20 in water content 44 41 in 1932 depth 45 in water content 13 1 in For 1932 the Kane Hollow courses courses courses cour cour- I ses show nearly twice the amount of water as for 1930 and over three times as much water as for last year 1931 For 1932 the Mosby courses courses courses cour cour- ses show 50 per cent more water than in 1930 and three times as much as last year For the following courses only 1931 and 1932 records are available available available avail avail- able Lake Fork Petty 1 Lake Lale Fork of Duchesne River Drainage 1931 depth 24 21 in water content content content con con- tent 44 14 in 1932 depth 46 in water content ins Paradise Park Parle Whiterocks River Dra Drainage nage 1931 depth 21 in water content content content con con- tent 47 in 1932 53 in water content in Middle l Beaver Creek Henrys Henry's Fork Drainage 1931 depth 20 in water content content content con con- tent 34 31 in 1932 depth 25 in water content 54 in The Lal Lake e Fork Mountain course shows 24 times as much water in 1932 as as in 1931 The Paradise tt Park Park course shows a little over three times as much in 1932 as asi i l 1931 An average of all courses on the south slope of the Uintah mountains mountains mountains moun moun- or the drainage into the Uintah Basin shows an increase in water content for 1932 over 1931 of per cent or three times as aa much uch water as in 1931 Due to the extreme dryness of the soil due to drought last season season season sea sea- son there has been very little runoff runoff run run- off ff up to the present time Practically Practically Practically all the snow that has melted melted melted melt melt- ed has been absorbed by the soil |