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Show r '" " ; - y , y. v.. .. ,,7T.w.r,..... rj ,-,--1 Snow-Shoed Kedric Somerville, of t'he Montieello SCS office, takes snow measurement on upper La Sal Mountain. He recorded 33-3 inches; 15-year-average is 41 inches. & 1 .r , ' ' " - a V 5 S - 1 f V- , v c'.l 0 V ., 4 -.- Soil Conservationist Kedric Somerville and Rus;el Jensen use modern snowmobiles to malo annual spring measurements on scenic La Sal Mountain. Both snow level and moisture content are far below average, aver-age, they noted. - Be!ow Average Yields hmi m Smu Smmf Soil Conservationists from Montieello and Price offices have completed the annual spring snow survey on the Lasal Mountain watersheds. Below average yields were found!, and barring unseasonable unsea-sonable storms, 1967 could' be , a thirsty year, they. reported. re-ported. '., r On the Upper LaSal Mountain level, Kedrick Somerville, of Montieello and Russell Jensen, of Price measured 33.3 inches of snow, with 8.9 inch moisture mois-ture content. Compared to an approximate average of the past 15 years, the 19G7 yield is only 62 percent. The 15-year average moisture mois-ture content is 14.4; snow level, 41 inches.. The Lower LaSal registered regis-tered more deficiency. Snow depths this year is 13.7. compared to a 15-year average aver-age of 29 feet. Water con-tnet con-tnet this year is 3.6 inches, compared with a 15-year average of 8.7 inches. So far, 1967 is vrodueing only 41 percent of the 15-year moisture average. The statistics would look more dismal the soil conversationists con-versationists noted, if 1966 (.measurements were available. avail-able. Last year there was so much' snow on the mountain it was impossible to reach the measuring level in t-me for the March survey, antf the snow levels are calculated calcu-lated from 1958-1965. |