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Show I Heavy Snow Brightens 1921 Water Prospects Due to unusually heavy sr.ow fall1 during October and November, and the large amount of snow present In the mountains for this time of the year, water prospects for r.ext season are exceptionally favorable, In the northern portion of the state, according accord-ing to a report from J Cecil Alter, in charge of the Utah office of the I'nlted States weather bureau. "The seepage from the precipitation during ctobtr and November was heavy," Mr. Alter said, "and the early snow-full has placed considerable snow i In the mountains. " From eight to twenty inches of wet. I heavy snow are shown by measure-j ments taken near the Strawberry res-ervolr. res-ervolr. In the higher mountains If averages about three feet. At HoIe-in-the-RocK ranger station the snow averages from fourteen to twenty-one lnche-5. The station la in the extreme eastern part of Summit country. i Six Inches of snow are on the I ground at Winterquartcrs In Carbon; county. The water in the Piute reservoir has reached the forty-:our-foot contour- |