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Show Southern Utah Visited By Heavy Snow Storms and Watershed Packed Confirmed Reports from North Sanpete and as Far South as Panguitch States Snowfall Heaviest for Many Years. Gunnison Valley got the tail-end of the raging blizzard which swept points north of here Wednesday morning morn-ing and the snow, accompanied by a heavy wind, was lashed and scattered scatter-ed in every direction. The storm, while not yielding as heavy a snowfall snow-fall as the storms of last week, was the fiercest seen here for some time. It broke here about nine o'clock and raged for more than an hour and a j half. The thermometer took a sudden sud-den fall and this, Thursday morning, 13 degrees below zero was reported. The mercury began rising and at eight o'clock its was nine below and at ten the register showed zero. Notwithstanding the fact that Gunnison Gun-nison citizens were somewhat "frozen" "froz-en" up, due to the sudden change in climatic, conditions, schools and business busi-ness went ahead unabated. Some inconvenience in-convenience was lause by frozen pipes and many of which were busted, nothing noth-ing serious resulted. Records for five years, in so far as snowfall is concerned, have been broken during the past week. The storms of last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and which was general throughout the southern section, resulted re-sulted in filling the watersheds with more snow than for many years past. At Panguitch divide, one of tho feeders for tho Piute Reservoir,. near-I near-I ly three feet of mow fell during the storms of last week end. Loa divide showed more than two feet and Es-calante Es-calante reported 13 inches of new snow. Grass Valley and John's Valley Val-ley reported 14 and 13 inches, respect-, ively, while at Marysvale the recent storms left a foot of the snow on the level. Autoists traveling through Cleor Creek canyon were blocked as a result re-sult of 18 inches of new snows at tl-.s divide. Travelers, however, were finally fin-ally able to get through with the aid of teams. Conditions in North Sanpete county, coun-ty, according to reports from various sections north, are highly encuorag-ing encuorag-ing from a water supply future. The Gunnison reservoir, feeder for many of the farms in Gunnison Valley, was higher before the recent storm, than it was a year ago at this time. Tho ice swamps, near Ephraim, where, much of the water is stored for the. Gunnison reservoir through freczi! A is said to be in fine condition, with snow and ice packed in huge quantities. quanti-ties. This source, officials of uhe Gunnison reservoir say, is one of tho main supplies for the late waters. The storms of last week left nb.utt -light inches of snow on level in Ephraim, Eph-raim, Moroni, Mt. Pleasant ami Mun-ti, Mun-ti, while Fairview has nearly two feet. Beet growers, stockmen and fanner's fann-er's are highly optimistic over tho results of the. recent storms and there is a feeling of contentment. The present year will result in hotter conditions con-ditions than has obtained for many years. Beet growers, in particular, who have battled against failures f r three years, and who have been wavering wav-ering as to action on planting bo is this year, are taking a different view, and many have signified their intention inten-tion of getting in and raising . th- cash crop, and keeping the factory going as never before. |