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Show ALTA NOT BURIED 1 UPJDFR LiEEP SP.JCIW I Mining Men Who Visit the' B Camp Declare Stories of Mail W Carrier Exaggerated. raj That the reports that have been Ira! printed in Salt Lake City newspapers SKl about the unusually deep snow in tho Rflf- vicinity of Alta, a mining camp about In! sixteen miles from Sandy, and the stories about the hardships encountered fflgj by tho mail carrier in covering his tor- n ritory arc greatly exaggerated is the WEk opinion of J K. -Boveridgo, who is in- ngf terestod in tho Flagstaff mine at Alta, c9lf and who has visited that part of the fSll- stato every winter for the past six wwr years. To Tho Tribune Wednesday Wk( ilr. Bevertdge said: Wkli "I took a crew of meu to Alta to go Hfj to work on Friday. The snow on that Hlri day would not execod a foot and a half, Rfln only where it had drifted, then, of: g course, it would be considerably deep- mM' er. Between then and Monday we hnd Hj quite a storm." However, after this Hi storm the snow would not exceed threo HP'' feet. It was no deeper than that when IK j I left for home on Monday. n Mail Carrier Had No Troublo. ' MI jj "Tho mail carrier was able to get Willi within a mile and a half of camp in $ his rig. At that point be unhitched his WL ( horses and rodo horseback to tho Co- mil lumbtis mhio, which is virtually the mm j town. He told me that ho had littlo KK: difficulty in getting through the snow HK'i and lias not bccji handicapped in hand- II is ling liis work bv the snow to any great mm extent this winter. The Flagstn'ff mine is about 3Q00 foot up tho canyon from jUjl tho Columbus mine. D. N. Pcspuin B 1 drove a heavy load of froight to our mil mine and had no troublo whatever. jfij'j "Tho stories that have boon sent to wM the Salt Lake papers about the eondi- Hj tions in the Alta count rv this winter Klj! put things too strong. Conditions aro 1118 not anywhere near as bad in the vi- ffifgit cinity of the mining oarhp as one would WJ ;tj be led to believo in tho stories told the wmu last day or two." BJRg |