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Show FOREST RANGER REPORTS ON WATER CONDITION Snow depth and water content on the Hobble Creek-Diamond Fork snow course is far below normal or average of the past ten years, according to Merrill Niel-son, Niel-son, forest ranger. The snow measurement was made by Wm. S. Cornaby and Grant G. Williams, who made the trip by truck, horses, and snow shoes. The average snow depth was 28.5 inches with a water content con-tent of 9.6-1 inches. This is considerably con-siderably below the average for the past ten years, which was 35.35 inches for depth and a water content of 12.39 inches. Only one year in the past ten has the water wa-ter content been lower and this was in 1939 with 7.92 inches of water. This year's below normal condition con-dition for the March measurement is principally accounted for in the unusually warm period from the first part of March to the last, which melted much of the snow. The snow has melted from the south and west slopes in the Hobble Hob-ble Creek drainage. Also, many bare spots were evident on the Big Strawberry Ridge in the head of the Diamond Fork drainage, drain-age, it was reported. From observations made during travel to and from the snow course very little of the melt has run off. The ground is in excellent excel-lent condition with no frost, and is absorbing the water as fast as it is melting. There will probably not be the usual high water as the fast-melting snow on the south and west slopes is already gone, according to the forest ranger. Also, it was noted that the stream tn Hobble Creek is clear and free of silt. |