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Show SNOW BLANKET COVERS ALL OF SOUTHERNUTAH Heavy Water Content Assures As-sures Plentiful Supply for Next Year, While Parched Ranges are Well Soaked A storm which has centered over Washington county since a week ago last Tuesday resulted in a record rec-ord snowfall over this entire section. sec-tion. Today the storm shows no indication in-dication of breaking. The famed Dixie sun has made its appearance only at rare intervals while rain and snow squalls ihave been on the weather menu.; All told a total to-tal of 4 inches of snow has fallen in St George to Thursday noon, with a total precipitation of lv; inches, according to R. U. Macfar-lane, Macfar-lane, local official observer. A drizzling rain, strating yesterday yester-day afternoon and continuing all through the night and most of Thursday accounted for over one-fourth one-fourth inch of moisture. The southern south-ern Utah park area has had the heaviest snowfall in thirteen years, and snow lies to a depth of from a few inches to more than two feet in the vicinity of St. George. A deep covering is reported from the sheep ranges on the Arizona strip and the desert in the vicinity vicin-ity of Modena. The road between St. George and Wolf Hole was impassable im-passable Monday and Tuesday due to drifts which in places reached depths of five and six feet. There is between a foot and eighteen inches in-ches on the level at Wolf Hole. The mail truck operating to Mt. Trumbull was unable to reach Wolf Hole, 30 miles from St. George, on Monday. The driver was forced to abandon the truck a few miles from the former place and walk in for assistance. He returned to St. George Wednesday with his original orig-inal load, reporting snow still falling fall-ing on the strip, with the wind whipping the flakes into deeper drifts. From all indications rain followed Wednesday night when a raise in temperature was noted all over this section. Three other machines were stalled between here and Wolf Hole, those belonging to Jos. Prince, who left Monday for his sheep herd, Wm. Miller of Washington, O. E. Higlee and Berry Williams. Bert Covington and Kumen Williams left Wednesday noon for Wolf Hole to rescue the men marooned there. The party was met at the top of Mokiak hill and all returned to St. George last evening. Considerable difficulty was experienced ex-perienced Monday by motorists traveling between Anderson's ranch and Cedar City, and snow plows worked as far south as the ranch keeping the road open to travel. Bus service to the south was demoralized, de-moralized, the road over Cajon pass in California having been closed on account of deep drifts. Eight inches of snow was reported report-ed Wednesday at Hurricane, 12 in-; ches at Modena, eighteen at An-1 derson's ranch, 12 inches at Enterprise Enter-prise and two feet at both Zion Park and Pine Valley. There is close to a foot and a half at the summit of the Beaver Dam mountains, moun-tains, 20 miles southwest of St. George. However, the warm rain Wednesday night has melted the snow rapidly In the lower elevations eleva-tions and in some sections where there was a foot or more, but little snow remains today. The fall of the past week was one of the heaviest ever experienced in this section. |