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Show I Heavy Snow Storm j Sweeps Over Valley I Coming as it did, the fierce snowstorm snow-storm that swept over the Gunnison valley, Sanpete county and North ! Sevier county was worth at least a ! cool million dollars. The storm-swept I area was covered with a snow depth 1 varying from 5 to 13 inches, and the i fall breaks the record for the winter. , During November a storm of note de- posited a good rain, followed by : about four inches of snow, but nothing no-thing in the way of moisture has blessed the valley like the snow of j last Saturday night. Spreading across the entire valley, I the snow, at conservative estimates, I averaged close to six inches in depth and with a water content of close to half an inch. At the government observatory ob-servatory at the Gunnison Sugar factory, fac-tory, the snow depth was registered at close to six inches at noon Sunday. Sun-day. The water content is said to show nearly .57 of an inch. In North Sanpete the snow along the east side is reported to have been unusually heavy. Ephraim and Manti, j according to reports, showed about 13 and 15 inches, respectively. Fairview, along the storm belt, was blessed with j a heavy fall. However, in Salt Creek I canyon, Moroni and Fountain Green, the storm was not so heavy. 1 The storm, reports say, extended south to Sigurd, Salina, Redmond and Aurora and other sections getting get-ting a heavy fall of snow. Richfield, however, was missed, only a few flakes falling there. Clear Creek canyon can-yon was blocked with a fall of three feet of snow, and other sections in the southern part of the state have reported re-ported visitations from Sunday's storm. While the water showing has been greatly increased as compared with 1934, there has not been sufficient to bring the reservoirs up to normal storages. Warm days and freezing nights, though, are proving factors in holding the water from any waste. Before the snow, and as a result of a long intermission between storms, mother earth was dry and much of the water from the late storm will be absorbed. Agriculturists, who had been undecided unde-cided as to a plan of planting crops, have been highly encouraged, and today to-day they are looking forward to a regular campaign for beets, wheat, corn and other crops usually planted here. |