Show vV DELIVERS REPORT ON DEPTH OF SNOW two Fifty Inches cf cr sno snow having havinga a water waler content of 15 IS inches Is lying Ing on the lie Alpine district distrct 11 it was reported b by E W V Nelson assist assist- assistant assistant ant director of the Gr Great lIt Basin Experiment station who has just returned from a trip Ilp to 10 measure snow depth h and density This is the average depth and slightly above the average a water content The rc report port of Sir Mt Nelson elson made to the forest seE l service e shows that t alt he experiment station near Ephraim the snow now depth was only 42 Inches With Ith seven I Inches water content the normal being about 49 inches of depth and 98 inches of water He fie says Jt t la is Quite evident from Crom a study of the records of past years ears that the snow depth and water con content lent runs more uniformly uniform at the Alpine station than lower down probably because the blowing and drifting tends to make conditions condition uniform In spite of ot differences fCc jn In precipitation precipitation tation There are about 30 Inches of snow In In- In the oal oak brush at 7 Q Qc feet c et elevation which Is a n sur- sur surprising surprising sur depth th n for this time this m lime u of the u n m u u year yc nr hll the water waler content of snow generally speaking Is what some somewhat what below normal It Is very much better than it wa was waa In the winter of 1322 1321 when onlY about half as much Cc fell 1 as has been hren recorded this winter Soil thermometers alt aU eh station stalon were uncovered and were found 1 to road read as follows 3 1 16 10 G Inch Inches s depth 33 degrees del s 12 inches depth U 33 dEgrees 24 U inches depth 35 de- de degrees degrees de degrees grees The soil Boll was full ful of water |