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Show Snow Measurement Highly Gratifying Febi-uary 4, 5 and 6, according to advices from the Mantj National forest for-est headquarters at Ephraim, snow measurements were taken by Ranger Thursby and Elliott Johnson, and the report is gratifying. The actual precipitation pre-cipitation for the month of January, as shown by the Marvin snow gauge, was 5.48 inches, a record for the month, and is a close record for any month of the year. The greatest precipitation pre-cipitation heretofore recorded during, any one month, according to the report, re-port, was 5.52 inches and was in the month of March, 1923. At the Great Basin experiment station, sta-tion, the snow on the ground on January Jan-uary 31 was one inch below the 8-year 8-year average for that date, while the water content is 7.94 inches, as compared com-pared with 8.14 inches of moisture content as an average for the 8-year period. The depth of the snow at the station was 37 inches. Ranger Ollerton reports 37 inches of snow at the Mammoth ranger station sta-tion on February 1. The water content con-tent was slightly in excess of that reported re-ported for the Great Basin experiment experi-ment 'station by Ranger Thursby. The Mammoth ranger station is located on the Gooseberry watershed, a tributary tribu-tary of Price river. The records since 1923 show three years, 1924, 1926 and 1928, as having hav-ing less snow and a lower water content con-tent than for January, 1930. With so much snow covering the valleys on both sides of the forest, the slight deficiency, amounting to one-fifth of an inch of water below the 8-year average, leaves the fanners with little lit-tle cause to complain, since the defi-c;ency defi-c;ency in the mountains is more than offset by the heavier than usual moisture mois-ture deposit in the valley. |