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Show Vater Outlook Promising on Mountain Courses Who'd of thought it would ever happen? That there would be so much moisture in and around Cedar City that residents would shout "Enough." That is almost the case these past few weeks, however, as perpetual per-petual storms have showered the area and piJed up a record snow pack in the mountains. This is all borne out by measurements meas-urements taken In the Cedarj Mountain watersheds by the Soil Conservation Service on Tuesday of this week. Midway snow ro irse showed the heaviest snow pack and wier storage witn a fabulous 96.1 Inches of snow with 31.5 Inches of water contained in the pack. For comparative purposes this Is 43.1 Inches more snow than at the same time last year. In 1956 water content on the course was 22.6 inches; in 1956, 20 inches and In 1955 only 19.4 inches of water. The story is the same on all courses measured. Cedar Breaks had 30.4 inches of water in a snow pack 90.1 Inches In-ches deep. In 1957 snow measured meas-ured 58 with 21.1 inches of water, wa-ter, with 21.2 Inches of water in 1956 and 19.4 in 1955. Webster's Flat had 69.8 Inches of snow containing 22.1 inches of water. 1957 figures were 42 and 15.8. At Urle Flat snow was at 32.4 Inches compared to 13 inches In 1957 and 11.8 inches of water compared to 5.7 last sea-son. sea-son. At Yankee Meadow In Parowan Canyon a snow depth of 47.6 inches in-ches contained 13.2 Inches of water. 1957 measurements were 28 inches of snow and 8.6 Inches of water. Also conforming to the Increased In-creased snow pack was the Ed Ward Flat measurment down below be-low the Yankee, which had 39.2 Inches of snow with 10.8 Inches of water. In 1957 11 Inches of enow holding 4.1 Inches of water wa-ter was measured here. What the snow cover would be if measurements were taken back in the Dark Hollow, Bear Flat and Dry Lakes areas In the Parowan watershed could be taken ta-ken Is only conjectural, but these areas furnish the largest percentage of Parowan's water supply. |