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Show j erably above normal, Dean Clyde 1 said, and was Adequate to mce; all water requirements of irrigators. irrigat-ors. It was the first irrigation season in 20 years that a water commissioner was found necessary neces-sary to distribute the runoff among users. However, this season was followed fol-lowed by a dry, mild fall which left watersheds dry and ground moisture deficient. Precipitation during the October-December period pe-riod was below normal. CACHE SNOW COVER LOW January 1 Survey Results Announced j The January 1 water 'content of i snow cover on Mt. Logan was the lowest since 1940, and sub- j normal January-March precipita- j tion would mean a serious" water j shortage in northern Utah dur-1 ing the summer of 1944, Dean George D. Clyde, irrigation engineer en-gineer for the Utah Agricultural Experiment station, reported Mon- j day. j While the January 1 snow cover is not a good index of the fol- lowing season's runoff, he reported j the water situation could be af- j f ected seriously if the present , moisture deficiency on the water- j sheds were not made up during the January-March period. I The water content of the snow ' cover on Mt. Logan was 2.6, 4.9 and j 5.5 inches respectively at elevations eleva-tions of 7000, 8000 and 9000 feet Ion January 1, he announced. Heav-; Heav-; ier water contents have been recorded re-corded on January 1 of every year since snow measurements were, made except in 192S, 1930 and 1940. However, in 1934 the year of the worst drought in the state's history, there was twice as much snow on the watershed January 1 as there was this yeal In 1940, the January 1 snow cover contained only 1.2, 1.6 and 1.9 inches of water at the respective res-pective elevations, yet the runoff in 1940 was 50 per cent greater than in 1934, illustrating the inaccuracy in-accuracy of the January 1 measurements meas-urements alone as an index of I seasonal runoffs. The runoff during the summer of 1943 in the area was consid- |