Show prospects forfi water 0 ater good W m m m W in iff III W AA AN afforest forest snowfall snow fall Measure measurements mens t aint uintah ah basin should have bumper crops this year during the past week forest ra rangers ingers measured snow and and doter determined ter tor mined water content on the th snow survey courses on the ashley national forest each of these courses are 1000 feet or bore rore in length and samples are taken at intervals of SO 50 1 ux feet with en an instrument devised especially tor for this purpose not only the depth ja Is obtained but what is QC of more importance the th amount of water is by weighing eich sample as aa it la ia taken the tha surveys axe are made in the last week ot of march each year following are the figures for coutsos courses in kane hollow on brush greek creek u dountain and on mos moaby by mountain kane hollow 2 courses mosby mt lit courses little brush or gr drainage Dra Drat laage nage river dry pk fk drainage Drain aee depth water coat cent depth waler cont 1930 35 in 96 in 1830 30 tn in 86 in 1931 16 in 64 in 1931 20 in 44 in 1932 45 in nl al 1932 45 la in in for 1932 the kane hollow courses show nearly twice the amount of water as 39 tor for 1930 and over three times as inich water as for last laet year pear 1931 for 1932 the mosby mountain courses 60 ter per cent mar daoro e water than in 1930 and three times as much as aa last year for the following courses only 1931 and 1932 records are available lake fork retty petty mt paradise park Lake rake fork or of duchesne chesne river elver drainage ivr ryr Dr drainage alge depth water cont depth water cont 1931 24 in 44 la ia 1921 2 21 1 in 47 in 1932 46 in TD 5 in 1932 63 in in beaver creek henrys york tork drainage depth water cont 1931 2 20 0 in 84 34 in 1232 25 in 54 in the Lake Ip kerork fark mountain course shows 24 times as muth much water in 1932 as 20 in ill 1931 the paradise park course shows a little over three times us as in 1932 as aa in 1931 the middle deaver beaver creek course which te Is on the north slope elope of the uintah mountains shows 66 per cent more water in 1932 than in 1931 the inere iise is much less on this course than ban on thoda on oa the south slope ot of the this was to bo be expected since during the earlier months of the winter when much snow was waa falling on abe south slope there was little snowfall snow tall on the north slope an average of all courses on t he south slope of the uintah mountains or the dr nago into the uintah basin shows chows an ain increase in water content tor for 1932 over 1931 of per cent orr or three times as much water as in 1931 due to tho the ex trennie dayne of the soil due to drought latt laet season there has been very little runoff up to the present time practically all tho the snow that has bas been melted has been absorbed iby by soli soil |