Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS i While there has been more snow back In the mountains than for years previous at this time of the year said l Alma Eldrcdge of Coalvllle at the White house yesterday the country l around Coalville has been as free from moisture as a telephone pole is of foliage fo-liage There have been no fogs even I I to afford the slightest amount of moist tire perhaps because our prayers did not reach higher than our hats But this snowfall of today will relieve us I of wcathdr the congestion of altogether too line l I I The Otter Creek S reservoir Is about I finished remarked Judge Mccarty at I the Cullen yesterday although it can be raised ten feet higher If desired There Is now about seventeen feet of water in the basin and some 1UOOO acres of land will be irrigated by the piesent supply The cost of the reservoir reser-voir will be about 60000 I This precipitation is n godsend to our people as they were becoming very despondent over the dry prospect In l fact It had begun to look desperate for i some localities One sheepman told me his herd had had no water for three weeks beyond what slight moisture they might gather up from the heavy fog deposits Now the sheep can get out into the deserts without any fear of suffering from thirst n m After four months experience at Nome Manager John Moore of the JamesKidder combination tells mo that that country Is the worst spot on I earth aid JB Reynolds of New York at the Jvenyon yesterday I is impossible to work there over a quarter of a year For the rest of the time the desolate flats are swept by terrific Arctic storms and men aie afraid to budge out of their tents The weather kills even the Esquimaux and In September Sep-tember Mr Moore counted elght two dead bodies along the coast that were being eaten by starving dogs2he poor wretches die of pneumonia There is goldIn spotsbut you never know where to look for I t It is a topsy turvy nightmare country where you find nothing where it outfit to be Mr Moore saw 22000 panned out of one I small claim in one day The one next lolt was worthless The tundra contains con-tains a few rare unaccountable pockets pock-ets but the rest is barren The main handicap to mining aside from the weather Is scarcity of water An Anvil creek man paid 7o a day for enough water to run one small rocker Nome was In anarchy when navigation closed ClaimJumping was an everyday every-day affair and plats with enough location lo-cation stakes at the corners to start a woodyard were common The dead broke contingent was enormous and it was necessary to guard food night and day to prevent Its being stolen Vessel after vessel was blown Into the surf and wrecked on the beach The camp Is Icelockecl now and the suffering suffer-ing Is appalling to think about Hundreds Hun-dreds are certain to die of exposure and hardships before spring Why when Mr Moore landed over one hundred hun-dred people were drowned In trying to get through with the wind blowing a tornado and the mercury at zero I There was a foot of snow at the Park this afternoon when I left said D C McLaughlin nt the Knutsford last evening The ground was frozen before the snow came so that although al-though It Is wet the snow will remain This storm will he a great blessing to Summit county as well as to the lower parts of tho State The November snow frozen ran off as the ground was not |