the the editors editor 11 s eventful trip to ashley we leivo often he ml ird of the hard snips endured by travelers through snow storms and in fact havo lime had some soule experience with will snow in a prairie country but not until last week were wo we brought 0 to full fillip apart u late tho the position of one attempting 0 o make a trip 0 over or the moun mountains mount aim taini in the winter seavon and during one of the bow icat snowstorms snow storms that has been known to tho the people of utah since its settle on the trip out to artilo valley we noticed that snow began near the entrance to soldier cana cannon oil and in vol ume up tip through 0 ali whitmore Whitin park bradu gradually alit decrease de decreasing creasi n 0 tv in amount on the side of the tile range there being but little snow two miles down nine mild cam CauN on on our return to brocks morning after a few days sojourn in ashley valley tk k S UA ali ja I 1 I 1 wo we ascertained that wo were snow bound in nino mile cana can on as enow had been falling foi dae s on thu the summit and tho the north northbound bound stage drici by mr barlow middie arid duo at brocks brooks monday evening find not ct et arrived ed mr francis tho the owner of tho tile much was expected on the stagie and as ho he Is one of tho the old mountaineers of utah hie his failure to reach homo home lent weight to the belief that tho tile summit was impassable on thursday your humble mccant camo came to tho the conclusion that ile h 0 would give vo a small cz exhibition of his by making a trip 0 oi cr or the surn int on snow shoes just to show tho the people what ho he could do and procured iho the assistance of hank stewart wart one of bunts cowboy s in making tho the shoes at this time ie e had gone ns as far up tho the can on as a tay 1 loro ranch and started froin from there with a team to where tho the deep snow commenced intending 0 to just fairly sail over tile summit on our now new shoes well wo we nail oi ocr or as easy aa as wjk wo an antici tiel praed and returned that night n to L tal tn lora lors wo we r remained until saturday without any news from N tho the outside world tho the telegraph heleg ra ph lino line being doan down when tho the mall mail carrier mr barlow arr armed iNed ho he informed M L leo lee one of the proprietors of taa Ta lors ors ranch that ono one of tho the stage teams was snowed in on tho the summit and had been thero there binco sin ce tho the preceding sunday night then almost a week without food or water in the morning mr leo lec collected nil all of tho the available men in tho the canon cannon and started for the summit to rescue the horses there being in tho the part ten men and six horses lee pro proved ed himself equal to the cmar any and wo we aro are rather of the opinion that any undertaking he tackles in tho the future will bo be accomplished unless there arc are pretty good reasons for failure the editor of tho the TELEGRAPH accompanied this expedition and this time did sail with a N engen 0 cre from tho the back of datil stewarts I 1 bucking broncho bion cho landing in a rather fled ded and humiliated position in about ahr threat feet of snow we could beet et the tile shiow bank all till right not riot tho tile broncho ahe the failure to ride sno snow shoes followed ba a ibe the futile attempt attempt t to ride ci even en a horse proved boy beyond ond question that wo we were a tenderfoot stewart mounted the broncho which had hal b ono one little jerk so nearly broken us into and also soon camo came to the ground not discouraged a a particle par ho homeer weer ho he again mounted tho tile irate and determined d not to tu be bc rodo rode animal and without a saddle stuck to hie his buck balk for the minutes or more tho the broncho tho the chilo bucking ar aching and ind finally landed head L 1 dinch ditch that had been filled with snow and aho au landed stewart in the snow some soine place dom tho the canyon on between ii and a taa 1 borsi randi b stewarts te warts ef effort however proved ed him to be a master horseman as bo he did not leac ica c the animals bock until it lc asto As to ours the same compliment would hardly be in place at least until we havo limo more practice which will likely le defell ed until next winter when the snow ie Is deep and nico nice soft places aty bo selected to lic light in without further aden turo wo arrived at the summit where wu rio futine thu the stage horses ind after digging dig ta ing a aiss irre 0 through two hun dred and fitt feet of snow got them safely tu to our tal that evening with mr bailow ballow we at the stage 0 station in soldier a canyon and tho the following morning camo came to price 11 we ave recie led ed a letter in answer to 66 brutus of hist list week which wo we would gladly publish but the writer has failed to g T e his name i 0 L I 1 gj L a a