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Show MAIL FROM EAST IS LONG DELAYED Heavy Snowfall In Eocklos Holds Up IT. P. and D. & E O. Trains. As a result of tho terrific snowstorms snow-storms which ragod Thursday in Colorado Colo-rado and Wyoming and continued iu tho vicinity of Denver up to lato yes-torday, yes-torday, every train from tho oust into Salt Lako was delayed yesterday at least five hours. 2sot a letter or paper from tho east was rocoived yestoruay by tho postoffico and Postmaster Thomas thinks there will bo no eastern mail until lato today. According to reports received yostor-day yostor-day altornoon at the goneral passongor ofiiccfl of tho Union Pacific and Denver Den-ver & liio Grando railroads, tho rotary snow plows wero put into action after midnight Thursday and wero busy all day yestorday. Denver & liio Grando trains wore roportcd fivo hours lato by Colonol Benton of tho D. & li. G. and D. 8. Spencer, assistant goneral passenger passen-ger agent of tho Oregon Short Lino, said that Union Pacific trains wore at loast that far behind. Both roads ox-poet ox-poet to havo trains running on timo by at loast tomorrow. The storm which caused such havoc in Colorndo had its center over New Moxico Thursday and yesterday movod on to Oklahoma, according to A. H. Thiosson, seotion director of tbo local United States weather office. ?dr. Thiesson says there is no danger of Salt Lake boing visited by bucIi a heavy snow in tho immediate future. The precipitation in Colorado during tho storm was a rocord-broakor accorcl-ing accorcl-ing to the weather man, tbo snow, re-ducod re-ducod to water monsuring about 2.28 inches. This would bo about twelve inches on tho lovol. The averago precipitation pre-cipitation for Colorado has been only .7 of an inch for tho month of November Novem-ber and that has been badly beaten in twenty-four hours. |