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Show SnovandVater Measurements Less Than Normal Snow measurements on two snow courses on the Parowan watershed were taken. Sunday, March 9, and the snow cover and water content, while better than for the past two years, are not as high as reports on areas on either side of us. Both the Cedar mountain moun-tain and Beaver mountain areas report a higher percentage of gain over others years than local measurements show. The measurements were taken by Ralph and Leonard Orton, with equipment furnished by Wilford Bentley, ranger of the Dixie forest, and are for the Ed Ward flat and Yankee Meadow areas. Snow measurements taken for the past several years have been made at these points by the Forest service. At the Ed Ward Flat course there was 35.7 inches of snow having a water content of ,10.0 inches, compared to 12.0 inches of snow in 1951 and 14.8 inches in 1950, with water content of 3.0 and 5.6 respectively. The course at the south end of the Yankee reservoir showed 36 inches of snow containing 9.35 , inches of moisture compared to' 15.3 of snow and 3.4 inches ofi water in 1950, and 24.2 inches of j snow with 8.3 inches of water in 1950. The Orton brothers report! that the snow is rather loose and dry. They also report that there is very little water in the Yankee Yan-kee reservoir with the rocks on the temporary dam showing out of the snow. |