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Show A SHOPPERS GUIDE TO VmLUES IN SANPETE VALLEY THIS WEEK! Sanpete Co., Utah Volume Ninety So you Belty Ramsey Old-time- all-tim- n one-thir- d it couldnt obtain men and horses for snowplows to clear the sidewalks." On April 4 The Pyramid reported that all records had been broken for snowfall and water content with amounts measuring 210 to 220 of normal percent compared to averages of the 24 years before. Examples showed Horseshoe-124.Huntington inches of snow with 49.94 water content. The 1 22 year average was 23.89 inches of water for a percent of normal. At 210 Gooseberry Reservoir there was 106.5 inches of snow with 41.5 inches of water compared with a 24 year average of 18.83 inches for a 220 percent of normal. At Mammoth up Fairview Canyon there were 109.9 inches of snow with 42 inches of water compared with a 23 average of 20.1 of water or 210 percent above normal. The highest previous year since records were kept was in 1936 when Huntington-Horsesho- e inches of snow with 37.6 inches of water; Gooseberry had 78 inches of snow and 29 inches of water and Mammoth up Fairview Canyon, 86.6 inches of snow with 31.2 inches of water. When the snow began to melt in early April trouble followed for had 103.6 Number Four 28, 1982 then look at 52 think we have snow On Feb 8 following a inches; Nov. 44 inches; Dec. 55 inches; Jan. 36 massive snowstorm three MT. PLEASAN- T- As inches and Feb. 9 inches Mt. Pleasant men were found dead in their car snow continued to fall up until Feb. 4. More from Christmas Eve into snow fell, and by Feb. 24 which along with nine the new year piling up of 1952 the total seasonal others had become stalled amounts of snow from 3 to snowfall stood at 204 in deep snow two miles west of Colton. Drifts 5 feet in Sanpete, more inches or 17 feet. and more the talk around The massive snow pile-u- p measured from 6 to 9 feet the valley towns turned to began as snowstorms high and the mine 1952 and 1948-4came often from October workers were stranded and not so 20 when the first 3 inches for 18 hours in their old timers who lived here fell. On Nov. 12 an advehicles before help during those hard winters ditional 4 inches fell, with reached them. Ed S. Jensen, William vividly recall how deep 14 more coming on Nov. the snow was and what 14, and 17 more on Nov. Arthur Brewer and Waldo Sanpete looked like when 21. An additional 12 inches Hansen were overcome the whole valley was just on Nov. 24 brought the by carbon monoxide about snowed in". total for October and fumes. Officials said the If the winter weather November to 50 inches. ice and snow had ap2 saw parently packed so tightly should stop now and no December more new snow of much another 7 inches added to around the car the magnitude hit the valley the total and December 4 exhaust fumes came back this year, 1952 will still another 12 inches fell. On indo the vehicle causing e remain the big December 6, 18 inches the tragic deaths. That year of 1952 at the came down with 20 inches year for snow. A snow report at added on Dec. 29, and 27 Mt. Pleasant Power Plant Mammoth Ranger inches on December 30. park more than 6 feet of Station up Fairview From the first snow fall snow still lay on the Canyon which was also a on Oct. 20 to the end of the ground at Easter on Mar. measuring station in 1952, year 1951 the total now 28. The year before, in so far this year has 15.9 measured 134 inches or 11 1951, families had had Easter picnics at the park inches of water for a 177 feet and two inches. The new year was to see at that time. percent average. Old timers then agreed 1952 figures still more snow coming 1952 the down and much of it that 1952 was the hardest In measurement taken by staying on the ground as 9 winter in 60 years as snow the Soil Conservation inches fell on Jan. 13 and covered North Sanpete Service just two weeks another 8 inches on Jan. Valley for more than five later than now, on 18. On Jan. 25. 15 inches months. Hay was running February 1 showed 28.8 were added making 32 in short supply and with inches of water or very inches in January, or the coming approach of close to twice the present almost another three feet lambing time livestock-meforesaw trouble from amount. There were 78.5 to the over 11 feet already the snow and cold. inches of snow at that accumulated. Roads closed location. February continued the Snowfall figures taken snow trend when 7 inches Highway 89 through at the Mt. Pleasant Power fell on Feb. 2 followed on Thistle was closed some plant give a yardstick of Feb. 12 by 12 inches, Feb. of the time during March. ... what.itwas.Jike onjhe. .16 another 2 inches; Feb. . Farm roads were imvalley floor where a total 18 still more with 7 inches passable without chains feet of and Feb. 21 another 3 and in Mt. Pleasant of 12 snow fell between Oct. 3 inches, and Feb. 24 still pedestrians were forced and Feb. 4. another 8 inches. The to walk in the streets The season figures February total measured because of the huge snowbanks. The city said showed October had 3 39 inches. By - January residents of the valley as Fountain Green was floodwaters covered closed as water ran over roads and did extensive the road. In May with warmer damage. Highway south of Chester was temperatures more under water and several damage came. Fairview feet of water surrounded Canyon road was blocked the Moroni Feed Com- by 14 snow slides with 6 to pany forcing employees 8 feet of snow still on the to build dikes to protect Skyline by May 9. the mill. A week later the road at Flooded tracks Salt Creek between Nephi Railroad tracks were and Fountain Green under water and near closed for five days water was because of flood damage Moroni, washing under the ties, and the Chester Wales but all the tracks stayed road was under water. in place. Disaster area A road west of Ephraim By the latter part of was sandbagged and the May, Sanpete County had nine-mil- e stretch between been approved for flood Gunnison and Sterling disaster loans for the was closed under 2 foot repair of buildings, deep flood waters. fences, drainage, Highway 30 between irrigation systems, and Wales and Chester was for land leveling and flooded and closed as clearing of debris. were Highway 89 between The first week in June a Mt. state of emergency was and Fairview while the declared at Chester as 500 Pleasant Sanpitch River ran to acres were flooded and near capacity. Farther to one family was forced to the north Fairviews evacuate the with water line down the possibilities of others canyon washed out and doing so. was under eight feet of The year was to have a snow in the Canyon. rosy end though after all Residents hauled the difficulty caused by drinking water from Mt. the snow when The Pleasant. Pyramid reported on Farther to the north June 20 that the Forest the Highway 89 at Thistle was Supervisor said closed as Spanish Fork ranges were in better River ran over its banks condition than they had and washed away the been for several years. 1948-4- 9 bad year approach to the D & RGW main line bridge. Another bad snow year Salt Creek Canyon for Utahns was the winter between Nephi and of 1948-4when many sheep were snowed in on the west desert and January 10 of 1949 drifts of from 20 to 30 feet were not uncommon. S-- ll 9 One sheepherder reportedly said the winter of 1937 had been a bad one but 1948-4made it look like one of southern Californias rainstorms by comparison. Hay was dropped to the snowbound sheep as deep snow covered over 200 miles of the desert area. measurement Snow taken that year of compared with the 1947-4years showed a big increase in snow depths in 21 more bighorn Department of Wildlife Resources personnel recently loosed last year. A spot to location 27 that from to the Wyoming transplanted sheep join in last the born were two lambs year in the group check of the herd shows that with ear tags and been have Nebo The on last tagged bighorns year. placed some with radio collars to enable DWR officials to track their movements. 9 SANPETE VALLEY HOSPITAL 265 North State MOUNT PLEASANT CIL0K1DC 48-4- 9 8 1949. At Oaks at an elevation of 7,655 feet on Feb 1 there were 17.34 inches of snow with 4 inches of water. On Feb 1 in 1949 the same date saw, 32 inches of EAR, NOSE and THROAT Glen Lund, M.D. AUDIOLOGY Rex C. Scott, Audiologist ORTHOPEDICS Robert T. Jackson, M.D. UROLOGY The FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING YOUR NEED FOR AN APPOINTMENT CONTACT To make an appointment 3 AUG,: G02-2QG- B Lifetime 3JREE movieien MEMBERS: snow. Joseph Armstrong, M.D. Dean Bristow, M.D. Ronald Oldroyd, M.D. YOUR FAMILY PHYSICIAN 03 Tommy Brunger stands in front of a snowbank along the side of the Milburn Road after the 1952 record storm which dumped large amounts of snow on Sanpete. Only the peak of the Brunger garage building to the east of the road can be seen beside his daughter, Paulette, standing on top of the snow. Snow depths, while reaching considerable heights this year were not as high as during the 1952 storm. Headquarter reporting station at 8,850 feet on Feb 1 in 1948 had 28.30 inches of snow for 7 inches of water while one year later there was 44.70 inches of snow with 8.41 inches of water. At Meadows 9,860 feet elevation in 1948 there were 40 inches of snow with 11.50 inches of water and in 1949 on Feb 1 there were 62.30 inches of snow with 19.30 inches of water. Unless there is an inordinately 0K2BHB3nD(rP,n) G03flna3i& CtntatPgpCB? caaqiyHpc IUS DEPOSI large amount of snow in the future for the Valley, it looks like 1952 will hold the record for deep in snowfall Sanpete Valley over the past sixty years at least. ifDQCED afHUD CDGjnniD SUBSCRIBE TODAY! CALL 462-213- 4 OR SEND $11 (in Sanpete County) 8 FOR ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION The PYRAMID TO P.0. Box A Mt. Pleasant, Utah 84647 W |