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Show SNOW PACK 'UP' IN BEAVER AREA A survey of the snow pack in the Beaver Mountains, made by Doug Robins of the Soil Conservation Service and Dale . Harris and Boyd Carpenter of the Forest Service, shows the Feb. 26, 1968, snow and water content to be higher than at the yame time last year. At Big Flat the snow measured meas-ured 47.5 inches with 12.5 in. of water, compared to 46 in. and 14.5 in. last year, which is 83 of average. At Otter Lake the measurement measure-ment was 43.8 in. with 11.6 in. of water, compared to 35 in. and 9.3 in. of water, for 89 of the 20-year average. Merchant Valley had 33.7 in. snow with 9.4 in. water, compared com-pared to 19 in. snow and 3.9 inches water last year, or 111 oi! average. The Big Flat rain gauge recorded re-corded 4.85 inches of moisture during February, and the Merchant Mer-chant Valley gauge held 3.55 inches. |