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Show PAGE 26 THE ZEPHYRDECEMBER 89 Hank Schmidt's Roe de JOURNAL all UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR closed temporarily because of the our rent snow stern It Is Booth but will be opea to travel vithia too days after the atom Is over NATIONAL PARK SERVICE The malntenanoe crew has been ARCHES seetion just south lioab-j-Utah- ,9-4- ioeiber--20th no doubt in anybody's mind about Moab having a "Wlii to Christman e have had some real winter and zero snov has been of weather with plenty It temperatures almost as sold as that day you visited ua last January, remember? ihe rather severe weather has hampered the work of the oaap to some is old-fashio- ned travel until the last snow storm still ARCHES Henry By Uosb travel year to oste, Travel this month, 209 Sohuidt, custodian G Utah is doing hun to more good than Talley, to the Devil's our In the lower end of Salt Valley and read will bs closed Garden and Dslioste There are nine lnehes of with chains if the this storms continue for the winter Visitors Visitors from ing an on about-fa- ce the register at the this visitor count A total of in the end of the road California visitors 209 month from show- visitors signed Hindoos Section, and of the western slope of number 166 were from various towns on Colorado travol Colorado have kept our numbered 14, Utah 11, and states in the east, of travel originated in various 611 the balar.ee and middle-we- st southwest Heath or year ago thia A J month Dr ft Project Progress for the one of Uoab's ftilliams, me section of the country His advioe on tills sub j tot is 100 boundaries of the monument. par sent correct, because I have learned during the past month that the temperaoan and docs drop from the low hours, and that changes, and will fall snow we of the season Most of isltors without a the resultant storms have at this writing week and on fifties to been la Thera they have and some of our widely known mad more snow on we advert-se- d The month, and heaviest snowfall will the ground in the and if the m atormo keep Holland at the until 1460 Overlook fir icei start at &JI fRj., aiul (xoi ) 1W tuliH't make also it It the public vss neeesssry ftindrws Section, the billow Springs read. P.outino discontinued bo practicable signs wore plaoed, as planned, but to repair the sign marking the entrance to the Miller and I 'inis via were made patrols of all seotions ef the which are udjaoent monument with especial to grazing allotments domain of the road alignment to Courthouse made a reoonnaiaeanoe Hash, with cmphaala upon locating a report on this work has her xlmho hi appointment 'Vhloah, Q(luh new rill Associate Landscape Architect Miller, Aseooiate Engineer of Jive recent painhnys oj the eanifonlanJx country .ire now available C)Jee them ul favorable weather conditions Ho these conditions the project to place bronze markers base of each aroh, and this project more or April March General protul to announce 9, until the seotions yet unposted new snow In So work was attempted on attention to the seotions winter sports areas now about 5 8$ completed any aoro signs ear be posted reeent storms have piled up bo running competition with cJmnleJ (bJihon if project is and the work would be slow nnd hazardous under in fPaye Is doubtfbl for the last year, started, it This These sudden quite regular this Chamber-of-Cosaerew-fr- ont Seetion than at any tine at the rate very few the severe weather visited us during the puts on a from Colorado m hint of earning are having our worst storm week-en- ds sero in Month Fourteen boundary markers wore posted on the nerth and northwest never to bet on the weather in thie oldest inhabitants, told up snow Sinee in progross) I have not been able to Windows Section, and I have closed the road until we oan break a trail through some of the drifts It really won't make much difference, except for light local travel, as the roads in Colorado are practically snowed under xor the renainder of the winter Local people say this Is the rost severe weather they have witnessed here in Deoenber in 18 years Windows is passable, Arsh soot ions is The snow The road dose Balt Dear Eughi (whieh in Rook a ad has aooompllahed mueh the Balar.oed until the spring rains and runoff. Coolidge, Ariscna ture month on the seetion already worked and the naoessary repairs to washouts will be non-exist- ent the last storm drive into the all 0 Hill'.T, Superintendent Southwestern Setinnel Monuments axVeoc ox' that station Hugh U extent but did not work almost - improving There surely able to NATIONAL MONUMENT -- Ur bssa la good oonditlea ftindows Seotlon has road into tlie The boon mad site for a bridge orosslng. to the Superintendent .W 7 pnnh utn umiluU.'. Kcspeotfully submitted. or write for color photographs utul price list. Henry 0. Sohmldt, Custodian A |