Show DEPTH EXCEEDS I 1918 SNOW MARK Accumulation This Winter Will ViII Not Surpass A Average Average Aver Aver- ver- ver age Amount While the snow sno depth In n neighbor neighbor- log Ingo mountains exceeds the fall recorded In 1917 and 1918 InS tho the accumulation Is no greater than average according to th the snowfall bulletin Issued yesterday b by J J. Cecil Alter meteorologist based on reports from weather observers and forest rangers Despite the tho recent heavy storms it I was further cited the fall Is evon even be below below below be- be low normal In some important areas The outlook is reassuring how however over it itIs I Is Vis said much snow having having- been blown from tho the ridges eR into the ravines Agricultural lands are aro well vell covered throughout tho the state protecting winter grain Inasmuch as the ground was wasi i I not frozen when the first snows snow's came tho the soil has become well saturated and andIs andIs andis Is thus described as being being- In fine slate state for the remainder of or the winter Tho The irrigation water prospects generally gen gen- en- en orally aro arc reported from fair Calr to good and th the water outlook is characterized as uniformly good over the Great Salt Lake watershed where the average a Is twice the amount shown a year ago and four Umes times tho the quantity of or two years ago o It Is still sun somewhat less than at the tho close of or 1916 The depth of or snow Is from four to five fl feet at Alta Silver Lake and northward along tho the Wasatch crest to the Idaho border though it has not yet et rea reached hed a to great state of oC solidity The prospects aro are reported from fair fall I to good over tho Sevier Lako Lake watershed watershed water water- shed shied where the tho mountains are carrying carryIng carryIng carry- carry Ing only a a little more than last ast year ear However cr th average e Is slightly greater than at tho the close of oC either cither 1916 or 1915 1115 with a saturated soil generally and Water water water wa wa- ter users more or less Jess optimistic Eastern Castern Utah reports Indicate to th the Uintah mountains carry front from two to four feet of oC snow |