Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-12-20 | Page 20 | Mantle of Snow Covers Salt Lake and Utah Fantastic Decorations Completed by Nature

Mantle of Snow Covers Salt Lake and Utah Fantastic Decorations Completed by Nature EXAMPLES of natural decoration by the snowstorm. At the top left is a monster "Christmas tree" in Liberty park. At the right the swans swim calmly in the stream of their corral while eight inches of snow covers the banks. At the bottom is a peculiar bit of fantastic decoration caught by the photographer on the west side. Snowfall of Past Two Days General in Great Basin of Mountain Region. SALT LAKE'S Indian summer weather of early December has now been supplanted by a touch of real winter. Tho storm of early Thursday morning was supplemented supple-mented yesterday by snowfall sufficient suffi-cient to make the total fall at 6 o'clock last night aggregate eight and one-half one-half inches. According to tho reports received yesterday at the local weather bureau, tho snowfall was general all ovor tho great basin, which embraces Utab and all of the states in which most of tho rivers have no outlet to the ocoan. With the advent of the snow Salt Lake took on a more pronounced holiday holi-day appearance. The "kiddies" got out their sleds of last 'car and began to "hook-on" to tho wagons throughout through-out the city. New coasting places wero speculated on and several were tried with but llttlo success. In the downtown down-town section there was a notable increase in-crease of inquiries at the department stores for prices on sleds and ni;?Iiy parents could bo soen homeward bound with coasters thoy had purchased. Yesterday morning trees, shrubbery, houso and fence tops presented a fantastic fan-tastic appearance. Tho snow of Thursday Thurs-day had melted a little and then had frozen overnight and in the sunlight tho ice glistened in a myriad of colors. Possibly at no place in tho city was tho beauty of the snow more pro-nouncod pro-nouncod than in Liberty park. A thousand thou-sand naturc-dccoratcd Christmas troes wero in evidence, while a peculiar contrast, con-trast, was presented by tho swans calmly swimming in tho littlo stream that runs through their corral.