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Show Heaviest Storm In Two Winters i "The best storm in two years," i was the popular opinion of Mon-j Mon-j day nights fall of seven inches or ! more of good wet snow with a water content of .61 of an inch, j And there was no trifling about it either, the way that snow came down. Starting at about 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening, the storm has virtually quit by shortly after , midnight. j But that wasn't the sum total of jthe weather gods' goodness to this i section for the week, as the rain j and sleet of Sunday ha totaled .66 of an inch of moisture! However, i with all of that storm going into ithe ground, so far as the valley was concerned, the seven inches of j new snow on Monday, even though of less moisture content, was much more impressive. Incidentally, the ; Sunday storm was general for a large area of southwestern Utah 'and stacked proportionately larger ! amounts in the mountains, while j Monday nights storm was limited pretty well to the valey, apparently, apparent-ly, with only a few inches at Bea- ver. The above figures for Milford are compiled from records kept by Charles E. Beard, cooperative observer ob-server for the United States j weather bureau. Employes of the Telluride Power company, 12 miles up Bea-ver Bea-ver canyon, reported Monday night I that 12 inches of heavy snow had fallen there Sunday and Monday and it was still snowing. At the snow measuring stake on the south fork of the Beaver river, there were 50 inches Monday and ! about the same amount at Merchant Merch-ant valley dam. It was certain that the depth would be increased considerably con-siderably by the storm. In Beaver valley, seven inches of snow fell Sunday and Monday, with a water content of slightly more than one-half inch, Walter S. Tolton, United States weather observer for Beaver, reports. |