Show water supply forecast for uintah basin streams concerning the eteter ter supply forecast for uintah dasin basin streams 0 D clyde or of the utah experiment station says the uintah daiji duat watersheds are well covered with snow courses ill above the 8 toot foot elevation the lake fork mountain n course elevation 10 feet the he paradise park course elevation feet the mosby boullt mountain 1 I in course elevation SOU feel feet and a nd the tile kings cabin course c ilcia loaton ton 8 feet I 1 furnish a splendid index of the seasonal flow of uintah basin streams these snow courses are two to ears old and prior to theu e establishment snow state measure ments were mere made in addition to these courses there Is a c course 0 urse at it the head held of strawberry Str amberry alver aji er and one at the head of indian india n canyon canon the 1932 is 0 of the snow pack are more than three times those ande in 1931 although Alt hogh the record is 1 too short to form the i basis of a it stream flow forecast foie fate cast it indicates a probable runoff in 1932 of at least twice mice that in 1931 if the runoff Is 1 rapid it may approach 25 2 5 times that tn in 1031 1931 the water prospects tor for the entire state for the seison of 1932 ore are exceptionally good compared to the past few seirs ew in northern utah the cimott w 11 ably exceed the 1931 binoff by two to to three times in central and southeastern utah and in the aln tah basin it will probably exceed the 1931 runoff by two times and A 16 southeastern sourhea aern utah it will probably only slightly exceed that in 1931 the unusual abundance of low enow snow on most of the watersheds Is condu conducive C ive to a high early runoff while the higher snowa snows will ill tend und to tt sustain the flow later in the season the unusually dry condition 0 of the rages last fall fail til ill no doubt cause excessive absorption losses it the enow snow melta melts slowly it 11 the spring temperature temperatures are abnormally 10 low it may even so reduce the tha runoff as to eliminate high ft ater on some streams these commeau on water mater supply prospects for 1933 1932 are based on short records and consequently ol 01 necessity are very general and may have to be materially modified as the melting season advances if U abnormal conditions occur them the water ater content of the snow on daniels creek straw stra berry at eat on march 31 1932 was as 20 7 inches on lake pork fork b mountain L etain moon lake at 10 feet march NT tl arch 28 1632 1032 was inches on mosby mountain Mount aln at feet march 31 1932 was inches on cm paz park at fit feet march 30 1932 was as inches and at X kings ings cabin at 8 feet march 31 1932 m was as 17 1 inches chow measurements varied from 43 4 to 66 56 inches |