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Show o Lot of Good Done By Gentle Storm Most spring storms are taken more or less as a matter of course but the gentle and long-drawn-out snow and rain storm of Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday of this week has been very near the "million dollar storm" that you hear so much about though usually a little later lat-er in the year. Unforunately, and contrary to the general thought of townspeople, the storm did not reach very far west, with never a drop in Pine valley, the center for a large area of winter sheep range which has been desperately in need of moisture. According to Charles E. Beard, local cooperative weather observer, observ-er, there was a total precipitation of .29 of an inch here in town, including in-cluding .30 of an inch of snow. From all indications, the Rocky , Ford reservoir, which stores water ! for Minersville farmers and a large acreage south and east of ; Milford, should fill to its capacity I by the beginning of the irriga- tion season with a pretty good chance of some of the water being l turned out as a safety precaution . for the first time in several j years. There is reported to be five i feet of snow In Merchant valley i and nearly seven feet at Puffers I lake, with the lodge at Otter lake j completely covered by snow. The I box canyons above Merchant val-! val-! ley are reported to be drifted to a level with the wires of the tele-i tele-i phone line running through the j canvons. ! o |
