Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-28 | Page 37 | Unique Method Used to Buck Snowdrifts

UNIQUE METHOD USED TO BUCK SNOWDRIFTS UKTTK, Mont.. Pec. 27. Invention born of l'ocessltv probably saved Roy Mirray of incite lVom exile in tho snowbound filnV. of the Big Hole valley, it berime be-rime knoun today. .Murray attempted to drive an automobile through the iiig Hole bisiu T;- 1 licrainmeier registered U degre'i a b"low zero and a blizzard was pilin" snow on the windshield of the cut-when cut-when Murray plunged Into a drift six feet deep and stuck. The snow was a foot deep on the lovei, and drifts behind him made It Impossible to return. Hy the exercise of Inicenuity ho was able to mount the front wheels on I'.L'lit, wid(? runners In ,now'-l from n fa nn?r, whih? lie ho;:it(i tho r-;ir w h-.-cis with gcnnysiicl:1 to givo tr;icti"ii mil lo pro von t tho iv.ir end fnmi sliuphiLr In thf drifts!. Thf coin biii.it ion iiutoiriici'.r 1 an-i slci worked and broufe'ht the i n ve i ; i"r- I into Hutto at the rat of t .. e:ity-fivo miles flu hour. j