| Show ANNUAL SNOW SURVEYS ON i LA SAL NATIONAL FOREST last week the sn jun record published a lepor of water conditions on oil the blue mountain thru the courtesy of S supervisor ulerv S S I 1 stewart of the L la sal national forest fores t we herewith print a more 0 detailed account ut cf conditions both on the la sal and abajo mountains the annual snow enow survey on the la sal national forest have just been completed by the U S forest service in in cooper cooperation stion with the utah agricultural experiment station the snow course on bald mesa alesa was va I 1 measured on maich 20 by forest fores ranger owen M despain and orson dalton da ton the rel readings Edings obtained indicate a very subnormal snow fall on the la sal mountains during the past winter the average depth was 2271 inches which represents 85 per cent I 1 of the 1935 measurements and lia per I 1 cent of the average for the past six years 0 omitting 1934 when there was I 1 no to snow now on the course the average water conlest con fent lent was 41 inches or only y 1 53 per cent of the 1935 water content and 67 percent of the average for the esst six years omit ing 1934 the buckboard flat snow course located west of conicello Moni Aloni cello was surveyed on maich 30 by foiest Ran ranger ivan christensen and george mrtin this survey revealed the fol following lowin I 1 i information the average snow depth was inches which is 49 per cen cell of the 1935 depth and 73 per cent of the everage for the past six years the rhe average water content was 79 inches or only 50 per cent of the 1935 and 78 per pei cen I 1 of the average for the past six years below is shown a dumary of the average measurements taken annually on the two snow coursed cour sei since their original in 1931 BALD MESA 1931 in of snow wili water content of 56 in 1932 in of snow with water content of 55 in 1933 in of snow with wafer content of 79 in in 1 1934 no snow on course 1935 in of snow with water content of 77 in 1936 in of snow with water contend conten of 41 in snowfall in with water content of 6 61 11 in I 1 BUCKBOARD FLAT 1931 in of snow with ater content of in 1932 in it of snow with a water content of in 1933 in of snow with a batet conent of 65 in 1934 in of snow with a water content of 65 in 1935 1035 1569 69 in of snow with a content of in 1936 in of snow with a water con contend terel of 79 in average snowfall a water I 1 content of in |
