Show WIDE EXTENT OF THE STORM Snowfall Heavy in Many Places Delaying Railroad Travel and Teegraphic Messages A continuation of the long storm Is looked for today by the weather office Weather reports from the Pacific coast were short yesterday there being none the director said on account of the wires being down through the severe storm In fact It was 7 oclock last evening before the wires from the west began working well The storm began Friday evening last and the precipitation precipita-tion in Salt Lake up to 6 p ni yesterday yester-day was 110 inches the entire precipitation precipi-tation for the month being 122 inches The weather along the Stale railroad lines was cloudy and threatening according ac-cording to the morning report and In the afternoon it was recorded as snowing snow-Ing at one point on the Rio Grande Colton and along the Short Line there were Intermittent and light falls of snow and rain mostly the latter Forest For-est Supervisor Bucher was eight and u half hours driving through three feet of snow In the stage between Kumas and Parlc City on Tuesday and he says that back on the Ulntah ranges the snow Is four and five feet deep Mr Bucher thinks It will be very difficult to get I out the 2500000 feetof timber the Government Gov-ernment has sold to the Park City mines on account of the deep snows Passengers from the west say that they waded through two feet of snow yesterday morning at Truckco to break fast but fortunately the beefsteak was not far off It was stormIng all through Nevada Travelers from Colorado say it was snowing and raining all the way from Tennessee poss near Leadvllle through western Colorado and that the Colorado Utah desert > Had received a good dose of It Last evenings train from Butte was late on account of the storm and an obstreperous engine In Idaho Passengers reported a heavy storm for most of the distance down from Montana and that there was nine inches of Know at Spencer Ida when the train passed that point The afternoon Union Pa trifle was nearly four houis late because of tho severity of the storm in Wyoming The local telephone officials say there has been little trouble with their lines on account of the storm the only dim I cully having been with certain Montana wires which contracted and broke front I I the intense cold I |