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Show Snow Delays S. L-Provo Highway Travel ji. "TiMMti 'Sf'i j T i i" i ii " rf-r rrTff-n r- mmwwtiv?9-rHHm 'em et ' mmii www fwwipwe i "S ,-' ' ) ' M i Jlxj. i- , , i ' . - ; - - 1 " ' ... r . p' " -J-a-J I x . : .. - : ! 'I . ' n u . I , . . TWAS A LONG WAIT FOR MANY MOTORISTS ON SALT LAKE-PROVO ROAD Here ar soma of the 300 cars unable to pass point of mountain Tooele Fears Shortage of Coal; ' Drifts Force Smelter to Close Autos Trapped, CCJC Camp Marooned and . , Students Cut O ff From School By BTJFORD SOMMERS The heavy hand of winter held the Oquirrh range region in a strangling grip Tuesday, giving rise to fears of a coal shortage In Tooele, closing one smelter, forcing a reduction plant crew to "camp out," keeping ISO students from classes, marooning a C C C camp and leaving thousands of head Of livestock in distress, while in Bingham canyon scores of vehicles were trapped between snow- drifU. Meanwhile, nearly two score men were snowbound since Christmas on ths north rim of ths Grand canyon, all east-west routes in southern Salt Laks county wers at least partly blocked and caravans of oneway one-way traffic crept through a narrow lane between drifts on U. 8. highway high-way (1 at the Point oMhe Mountain. As the Salt Lake valley experienced experi-enced the highest minimum temperature tem-perature in more than two months, flickering snow fell Tuesdsy as forecasters predicted occasional snow Tuesdsy night and Wednesday Wednes-day for northwestern Utah and Salt Lake City. Paralysis of the Tooele valley railway, connecting the town with tha mainline railroad to tha west and serving the International Smelting and Refining company plant four miles to the east, cut off coal shipments from Salt Laks City and caused closing of ths smslter because of Inability of workmen work-men to reach their-jobs. Dealers aaid they were having difficulty In filling orders for fuel. A workmen's train of two engines and two coaches was stalled In drifts midway between the city and the smelter, unabis to move In either direction since midnight Most of ths graveyard shift crew (Coathined on Pm Nne) (Coiumo On , DRIFTING SHOW CLOSES SMELTER Cntlo free race Oae) spent tha night In tha train, warmed ' by fires in either end of the coachea and munching lunches they . carried. Tha tenders carried sufficient suf-ficient .coal to operate tha engine and t keep the men warm, but water for drinking and for the Dollars Doll-ars soon ran out. Remain With Train x Soma of tha more hardy workmen , .hiked into Tooele during the night and morning, but most remained with tha train with tha wind whipping whip-ping through cracke around the windows. About 25 men waited SNOW CREWS DOUBLED Fearing another anawatarm ee-sioosly ee-sioosly would hamper anow re moral in tha buatneea district. City Commissioner John B. Math-eaan Math-eaan Tuesday doubled crews. Two eight-hour shifts will be maintained main-tained antU streets are cleared. . Action made) work far a mora workers. while another engine pushsd a plow slowly through the drifts toward tha Stalled train. , At Bauer, five miles south of I Tooele, a crew of 40 men were marooned at tha combined Metals company reduction plant, having made their way In Monday night by bobsled, taking food and blankets for -thslr exile" that-tha plant might operate. The Stat highway waa blocked half a mile out of Tooele and snowdrifts wsrs deep on the road leading to the plant from the highway. i Two school buses from ths north and two from the south were unable to get Into Tooele, making nearly a week's "vacation" for soms of the pupils from ths south. C O C Camp Isolated One hundred forty men In a C C C camp at Clover creek were cut off from the outside world, unable to get milk or mail from St John, although al-though food supplies were reported as ample. The camp recently had been hard hit by Influenza. Several appeals were received at the soil conservation office in Tooele from sheep and cattlemen who urged efforts to opsn roads to ranges lest their livestock starvs. Flvs or six herds, numbering about 10.000 head of sheep, were in need of feed in the Point Lookout region, while several sev-eral herds of unestimated numbers were in need along the Skull Valley road. The soil department was without means of aiding these hsrassed stockmen, but stats and county equipment was biting into ths drifts, striving to open the routes for feed trucks. Highway Blockaded Ths Bingham highway was closed In two places, for a mile in either direction from the junction of the Bingham and Lark highways and for a mile at a point seven miles sast of Bingham. One anowplow charged into the snowbanks with hope of having the road opened before nightfall, progressing pro-gressing only half a mils an hour through drifts an all-night wind had piled several feet deep. Many cars were stalled, soms between the two blockades. A bus of ths Bingham stage lines with six passengers, including three teachers at ths Bingham central school, was waiting for ths plow to cut through. Four high school teachers teach-ers were unable to get to their classes, their cars also being held up. Several teachers abandoned their machines to walk to school. Mail carrier! hiked through deep drifts to meet the mall bus from Salt Lake City In tha morning, and mine crews made their shifts between be-tween a and 7 a. m, but subsequent drifts blocked their routes. AU students in the Bingham schools from Lark were absent, their bus being unable to get through. About two dozen of the men snowbound on the north rim of the Grand canyon were employes of the Ryberg Brothers Contracting company, com-pany, working on the Union Pacific lodge. W. E. Ryberg, member of the firm, in Salt Lake City, stressed that no concern was felt for the workmen's welfare, as the food supply sup-ply would last a month and that the office was in daily telephone communication com-munication with the men over a Union Pacific private line. "They are going right on with their work," he eald. "If we had to we could get them out through the canyon and up the south rim. Or, ws could drop them food and snowihoes from airplanes, and they could follow experienced guides to Kanab." Parka Employee Isolated Efforts were being made jointly by the construction company and the railroad to open the road into tha lodge, a special tractor being awaited from Milwaukee, Wis. National Na-tional parka service employes also were said to be In the snowbound region. High wind In the southern part of Salt Lake county presented an almost hopeless situation for county crews, drifts filling highwsys nearly as soon as plowa moved through. One hundred men were at work with all the county's equipment, which included two auto patrols, three tractor patrols, flvs tractor plows, 12 trucks and soms horse-drawn horse-drawn plowa. Besides all east-west routss being partly blocked, roads completely blocked were: 116th South street. State to Sixteenth West streets; 128th South, 124th South and 114th South streets, west of Redwood road; Butler hill road. At tha Point of tha Mountain, caravans were being escorted through the narrow lane from either direction every hour, 40 to 100 cars awainting their turn each trip. During intervals ths road was closed, plows would push off snow accumulating undsr lash of ths wind. About 300 vehicles waited nearly all day Monday while stats squipmsnt tackled drifts as high aa tha tractors. - As Salt Lake City experienced the highest minimum Tuesday In more than two months, occasional snow waa predicted Tueaday night and Wednesday for northwestern Utah and the Salt Lake valley. The minimum mini-mum of 27 degreee waa the highest since November 28, although Monday's Mon-day's average of 24 degrees was still T degrsea below normal, the maximum maxi-mum reading having been 38. Two school buses from the north of Tooele and two from tha south were unable to make their runs Tuesday, making tha fifth day these routes have been blocked. About S5 men have been marooned at the Union Pacific lodge on the north rim of the Grand canyon sines Christmas. Two dozen were employes of Ryberg Bros., contractor, contrac-tor, but no fear was felt for thelr safety, said W. E. Ryberg. N a Cansa for Concern They have food to laat a month," ha said, "and there is no cause for i concern. If neceaaary, wa can take them out through the canyon and up tha south rim, or we could drop food and anowshoes from planes, so they could make their way to Kanab with experienced guides. We ar in dally telephone communication communica-tion with tha men." National park service employes also ware reported to be in the snowbound rsgion of tha canyon. Drifting In the Cedar City area waa causing trouble, road equipment being held up on the other aide of drifts between Cedar City and Lund. Equipment waa being brought In from the MUford sector. Fear was sxpreseed that the road to Parowan would be blocked during the day. Fears of a possible coal shortage at Park City were abated when a Union Pacific train arrived from Echo after having been delayed by drifting acroaa the track. A Denver Den-ver at Rio Grande Western piece of snow removal equipment waa reported re-ported derailed between Park City and Salt Lake City, but use of a rotary plow was expected to clear the route during tha day. Rising tamperaturea waa the trend throughout Utah, the range In the Salt Lake valley Tueaday night expected ex-pected to be from 28 to 18 degreee. A 50-degreo rise from Monday's minimum waa reported at Coalville. Tuesday's low reading being M degreee. de-greee. Milford'e minimum waa 18 degrees, compared with 12 Monday; Mon-day; Wendover, 10, compared with --12, and Modena 2, compared with a. |
