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Show Snow Surveys Offer Farmer Encouragment ... Snow surveys made Monday and Tuesday of this week by the Soil Conservation Service on the Paradise Para-dise Park, Mosby Mountain, King's Peak courses and East Park Reservoir Res-ervoir above Vernal, reveal . a decided de-cided advantage over former years so far as . water content is concerned. con-cerned. This is especially true in the Paradise Park, Mosby Mountain Moun-tain and King's Peak courses. Snow -depths are found to be less on the eastern end of Ashley Forest For-est in the Vernal area. The snow depth at Paradise Park snow course is 55.7 inches, with a water content of 15.9 in., compared to snow depth at this time last year of 42.5 in., with water, content of 9.7 in. The longtime long-time average for March 1st on the Paradise ' Park course is 43.8 in. with 12.0 in. of water. The snow depth at the Mosby Mountain snow bourse is 45.8 in. of snow with a water content of 11.5 in., as compared with snow depth of 37.1 in. with water content con-tent of 8.9 in. last year at this time. The long-time average for this course is 39.5 in. of snow with 10.4 in. of water. The' upper King's Cabin course has a snow depth of 43.7 in. with 11.7 in water content, as compared com-pared to 42.8 in. of snow last year at this time with 8.3 in. of water. The long-time average for this course is 38.7 in., of snow containing 11.1 in. of water. Less On ' East Side The Lower King's Cabin course has a snow depth of 38.8 in. with water content 9.6 in., as compared to 36.1 in. of snow and 6.7 in. of water last year at this time. The long-time average is 33.4 in. of snow with 9.8 in. of water. Snow depth is less on eastern portions of Ashley National Forest toward the Green River. These measurements indicate that the water content of the snow at high elevations is well above the average on Mosby Mountain. The water , content of the intermediate inter-mediate elevation snow is just about average, and the lower valley val-ley snow- is considerably below average.. This would indicate that the run-off from the snow pack will extend' later into the irrigation irriga-tion season this year than during the past few years. The total runoff run-off will probably be considerably greater than last year, and somewhat some-what above the long-time average total run-off. The water content of the snow at high elevations above Vernal is slightly above average.-The intermediate in-termediate elevation snow is near average, and the valley snow is below average. There are prospects for a better water year in that : area than was experienced last : year. However, it is unlikely that : run-off equal' to the average will ; occur. These snow surveys were mado by- Jack C. Stevenson and John L. Swe'nson of the Soil Conservation Conserva-tion Service, and Larry Jensen of Roosevelt. |