| Show AN ARCTIC WINTER tiie THE MERCURY AT 45 BELOW Z ZERO elto eito NARROW sarnow ESCAPE OF A MAIL maln CARRIER SUNDRY ITEMS iteus LAKETOWN rich elch county utah feb 1 12 ah editor deseret news the inhabitants of this burg are almost completely isolated from their fellow creatures never during the experience of the oldest inhabitant has there been so much snow upon the ground as at present we have about two and a half haef feet on the level and drifts from three to eight feet deep deew ee exception the winter has been exceptionally I 1 F boisterous boi we have had driving blasts from every point of the compass As a consequence traffie is almost wholly suspended we have a dally daily mall mail service betwee en and mont pellar pel pei laron iaron on the north and a tri weekly mail from evanston but this week has proved a memorable exception to this rule the stage driver on the southern route is renowned for his daring and energy but the state of our canon cation was too much for him on monday last he attempted tota to take kethe the mail sack out in a sleigh but he could not accomplish it and had to go it with a single horse he was till noon today to day makina making g the return trip and reports about eight massive snow slides in the canon catlon from one of which he narrowly escaped the thermometer went down to 30 degrees below zero a few days since and to 44 degrees in meadowville Meadow ville and 45 in randolph it has since moderated the wind being from W S W last tuesday thesda afternoon the mail carrier on the norak north route made an attempt to reach mea alea domville dow ville four miles from here but lost his way and trudged around all night and morning found him near laketown Lake town with a f frozen rozen hip and knee and a mail sack saturated with the lim ILM snow the snow is very soft under unde with a brittle top crust and the limbs of men and beasts are endangered in traveling and sinking through so much the arizona and other warm fevers are at their highest stage just now in this region hay liay is pretty scarce and it will be with difficulty that some of the cattle will be brought through the hard winter three births have already occurred in conr burg since the advent of the present month owing to the inclemency of the weather many of our churchard chur church chand and young peoples meetings etc have ave been een postponed notwithstanding no t with s n ing all t these ese things the health of our people eople is good without exception so f far r as can be ascertained we share the depression generally complained of in hr conse consequence bence of the low prices of grain an and d t the ae difficulty in 11 obtaining og a market cash is becoming woefully scarce we have a good sized stream of water running into the lake and during the summer and fall it overflows thus preventing our farmers from cutting hundreds hunk reds of tons of good hay on the bottom lands at the same time the farming land is burning bum ingup up for want of water the utilizing utilizing of for irrigation is now being agitated and it is possible something substantial will be accomplished in this direction as soon oon S as the snow is off the ground we have a 2700 new meeting meetinghouse house in course of erection which will be a credit to our little town and which we hope will be finished as soon as the weather permits respectfully yours AURORA PINE rine pin rin H VALLEY washington co february 29 1884 editor deseret news A word from pine valley although we live in a remote spot in utah I 1 think I 1 can truly say we are endeavoring to dothe do the best we can under existing circumstances there are about 40 our ward and our community la is for the most part young although somewhat isolated we are blessed with health peace and prosperity we have a large and commodious meeting house which has been in course of erection for some years the basement has been finished and used for schools and meetings for some time and last summer we were enabled to so far complete the upper room as to be able to use it our amusements heretofore have been limited out tut we ho hope I 1 e ere long to be able to more thorough thoroughly gM enjoy ourselves the present prospect is that shortly we will nave have an entertainment tain ment g given iven b by y 0 our lately organized organic ed dramatic a association SI atlon under the supervision of marcellus E bracken we have also been very agreeably surprised of late by the sound of a martial band the instruments having recently arrived under the supervision 0 of f wm gardner our sabbath meetings are well attended and anda a lively interest is also taken in the sabbath school Y at M Y L 31 and primary associations and the female relief society the people generally general adhere to the generalli lr counsel given in relation on to the word of wisdom we feel to enjoy the spirit of the gospel our crops have been depreciated for lack of water for some time past but the heart of the farmer has been made glad by the recent beav heavy ry fall of snow amounting probably to four feet on the level our odi stockmen stoc kmen feel a little despondent spon dent at their probable loss we highly appreciate your valuable paper the DESERET NEWS up to 1884 we had but a weekly mail since that time a semiweekly semi weekly which greatly adds to our benefit very respectfully A |
