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Show More Snow Surveys Add Hope To Basin Farmers Lower Elevations May Reduce Stream!' low ; Snow Lay Below Par Snow surveys were made on the Lakefork Mountain snow courses Wednesday, Feb. 29, 1956, and on the Indian Canyon snow course, Thursday, March 1st, by John S. Strang of the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service at Duchesne and Leo Foy of Ducnesne., A snow depth of 38.0 inches with a water content of 12.3 in. was measured' on the Indian Canyon Can-yon course. This compares with a snow depth of 38.1 in. with a water, wat-er, content of 9.9 in. last year at this time.. The long-time average for this course on March 1 is 35.1 in. of snow with 8.7 in. of water. This measurement indicates that the water supply outlook for that vacinity is considerably better than last year. There is a deficiency in the lower elevation snow pack which will probably result in less total streamflow for the coming season than the' higher elevation snowpack wouid indicate.. Therefore, There-fore, even though a better water year than last year can be expected, ex-pected, the total' season's runoff will probably not be much above the average, according to Jack Stevenson, Soil Conservation Service Ser-vice engineer at Roosevelt. On the Upper Lakefork Moun-(Continued Moun-(Continued on Back Page) MORE SNOW SURVEYS . . . (Continued from Page 1) tain snow course, a snow depth of 49 in. with 14.9 in. of water was measured. The snow depth on this course at this time last year was 39.1 in. with 10.0 in. of water. The long-time average for this course on the 1st of March is 38.3 in. of snow with 9.4 in. of water. A snow depth of 40 in. containing contain-ing 12.0 in. of water was recorded for the Middle Lakefbrk Mountain course. Last year at this time a snow depth of 32.7 in. with 7.8 in. of water was reported. The average aver-age for this course' is 28.0 in. of snow with 6.9 in. of wateT. At the Lower Lakefork Mountain Moun-tain snow course, 32 in. of snow with 8.4 in. of water was measured. meas-ured. Last year at this time the snow depth was 32.6 in. with 7.1 in. of water. The average for this course is 25.8 in. of snow with 6.1 in. of water. The season's streamflow of the Lakefork River can be expected to be considerably better than last year and probably well above average, av-erage, according to Mr Stevenson. |