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Show Thanksgiving Day on the Teton Pass Kditor The Tribune After continuous rains and snowstorms for a wool?, during which time llie mall stage over the To-Inn To-Inn pass rofutjed any women passengers, mid wo were hung up at the hotel in Wilson. W.vo.. at the eastern end of the pass, my wife honrded the open mail wagon at l":30 a. m. today. In a mixture of rain and snow, for Ihe trip over the pass, .while I followed horseback. Throe miles up the pass the mail was changed to n lxf sled, under the dripping wet pine trees on the mountainside mountain-side The two miles or more to the top of the pass from there was in snow from two to three feci deep. A snowsllde across the road, near the lop cf the pass, had been shoveled through by a Jnck.son Hole settler en-route en-route over the mountains with his winter's win-ter's supplies, and In this solid snowcut the walls were six feet high. .lust above, on the brink of tho narrow dugwny, his light freight wagon, heavily londed, lay on Its side In two feet of snow. On the lop of the pass In two feet of snow was another big wagon of "grub." loaded to the bows, and a surrey, appur- It was 11 slow crawl for the mall up the mountain, llie driver constantly lumping on and off lo relieve the team "of everv pound of weight possible, but from the lop down to tho Canyon road house, two miles, the road was sleep, sleighing good, and he "let her go." At the Canvon road house the mall changed to wheels again Tor the ten-mllc drive to Victor, Ida., tho last four or five miles constant chuckholcs, full of muddy water lo the horses' knees, and absolutc-lv absolutc-lv the worst road a woman ever rode over In open wagon. In a drizzle of rain and snow, arriving at Victor, twenty miles from Wilson, at 7:30 p. m- my saddle sad-dle pony getting mo here, one hour ahead of tlial time ovor the roads of the town, ankle deep with mud and slush. Today ll is still snowing nnd half a foot of It In this hamlet, over a sea of soft, slush and mild. Moral: If you will cross the Teton pass, do It on your own saddle pony and dodge the mall team gjjGENT. Victor, Ida.. Nov" 30, |