Show Snow Is Measured On High Levels By Wafer Officials OURAY VALLEY On Thursday of last April Dan engineer for the Utah Water and Power Gregory Pearson of the Soil Conservation in charge of snow measurements for the and Harold Dudley of Avalon made a trip into the for the purpose of measuring stream flow and snow depths at the high mountain reservoirs of Cliff and Whiterocks which are being investigated for development by the Ouray Valley The trip was undertaken for purpose of gathering information in regards to the overall survey by the several relative to the development of a water supply for the Ouray Valley 1 This is the first time this trip has been undertaken in the and besides measurement of snow and has proven that with the improvements of machines it will be possible to release or close gates at any season of the Dudley stated the snow cover to be somewhat deeper at the high but the water content to be about the same at the Paradise Park snow to the last storm being less in water content at the higher Dudley also said the trip was except for getting lost once or as the country looks somewhat different under four feet of snow than in the Also in places having to shovel to keep the from tipping over where snow had drifted on the side The Sno-Cat was supplied by the Soil Conservation |