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Show Snow Measurements Taken On Two Mountain Areas Snow measurements on the LaSal Mountains were taken last week by the Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service and U. S. Forest For-est Service and this week were taken by Don Hoffman of the Economic Development Committee, in connection with the ski area study on the north end of the LaSal Mountains. Moun-tains. The Forest Service measurements were taken in the Geyser Pass area. Hoffman reported that he, Cliff Sackerson from Midland Telephone Co., and Jack Hendricks Hen-dricks took measurements at the 93G0 foot elevation and indicated that there were 50.8 inches of snow there coin-pared coin-pared with 41.4 inches about 3 weeks ago. Hoffman said he was very pleased that only about half an inch of snow had melted during the warm weather. There has been no new snowfall since the earlier measurement. At Don's Lake, an area under un-der consideration for a base development, there were 3d inches of snow and at about 10,000 ft., and there were 44 inches of snow left on the slopes, compared with 61 inches three weeks ago. Iloif-man Iloif-man stated that although the snow was wet and heavy, snowshoes were still required to move about after leaving the snow-cat. He indicated that he was pleased with the amount of snow left, in light of the warm weather in the valley. Forest Service measure, meats showed 37.9 inches at elevation 9,40 feet with 119 inches of water. This compares com-pares with an average of 39.5 inches of snow and 11.2 inches inch-es of water, which leaves the measurement at 106 per cent of normal. Last year's measurements mea-surements at this elevation were 46.1 inches of snow and 12.6 inches of water. At elevation 8,800 feet 0:1 the lower snow course then: were 21.6 inches of snow with a water content of 6.4 inches, 90 per cent of the average cf 24 inches of snow and 7 Irenes Ir-enes of water. Last year there were 26 inches of snow and 7.6 inches of water. |