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Show Another Week of All-Out Effort to Open Roads, Feed Sheep on Desert, Follows Saturday Storm as Snow Fills All Roads Monday morning, one full week after the all-out drive to open roads to snowbound 'and starving sheep herds, conditions were just as bad as ever. In fact, maybe they were worse, for there was another anoth-er accumulation of snow land drifts, on top of the old, and men and equipment were wearing out und er the strain. And the sheep were still hungry. What herds had been reached and fed had to be reached and fed again. And the roads were blocked again. Last Wednesday Highway 6 west of Delta was opened out west far enough to enable many trucks piled pil-ed with feeds to get to their sheep and camps. And roads were plowed out to the north and to the south. Outfits move out and some came in through Thursday. The thermometer thermo-meter came up and it seemed the critical situation was relieved. But Friday such a hope was dashed and snow fell and fell and fell. That continued though Saturday Satur-day until 8 inches or more snow fell. That continued through Satur-over Satur-over the area, and every road was blocked. The only road open, land that kept up by continuous plowing, plow-ing, was the road to Holden, and Highway 91. Sunday it was clear and cold. And all the work of the preceding week had to be done over again, starting from scratch. PICTURE STAYS THE SAME When the thermometer goes up, that brings more snows. When it is clear, the thermometer takes a nose dive, such as Wednesday, Jan. 25 to 29 below. We might just as well have saved the type from last week's report, for the story reads the same. Same trouble spots and same conditions maintain. AND GETS WORSE Last Friday afternoon the school bus could not get through to Oak City and the whole load of pupils and many adults in town that day had to stay overnight in Delta. The Leamington school bus never got to Delta that day, the bus was snowed in in the driver's yard. Leamington was isolated until Sun day when a crew of men shoveled their way through 4 and 5 feet of snow to Lynndyl. Sutherland road drifted full and they were not o-pened o-pened up until late Saturday afternoon. after-noon. Plows kept the Hinckley road open Friday night and people got to and back from the basketball game. But there was no traffic out west on Highway 6. Neither was there on the Lynndyl-Eureka road. Sunday night there were 30 loaded load-ed trucks on the Delta main street waiting to get out to their sheep. CARS TRAPPED Friday night Dr. and Mrs. M. E. Bird left Salt Lake City at 9 p.m. to drive to Delta through Eureka and Lynndyl. Out of Eureka the doctor realized the road was filling fill-ing fast, but pushed on past Silver City. He was'stopped by drifts a-bove a-bove Dog Valley and couldn't get on nor back. And there they stayed until they were plowed out Sunday morning at 4 a.m. For over 2". hours they stayed there, but no! alone. For several other travellers were in the same fix in that area. Frank Adams was there from 5 p.m. Friday, with the Salt Lake-Delta Lake-Delta Freight line truck. And ho had food on his load. Also caught were lone and Harland Hilton coming home from the BYU for the basketball game at Hinckley and a surprise visit to their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hilton. The parents par-ents never knew of the weekend i their children spent until Monday morning, and they were safely ! back at Provo. Snowplows, bull dozers, jeeps j and men left Delta Saturday after- noon to work north on the high- i; way, while a crew worked down L from Eureka. It was almost Sun- I day morning, about 2 a.m., when j the first outfit broke them out, and started moving them back to Eureka. Dr. Bird said it was 4 a. I m. when he got back to Eureka, where there were no sidewalks left, just piles of snow, and up above the store windows. NO NEWS FROM WEST For four days there was no news from some of the parties working out west, on Highway 6, and over Cowboy Pass. Last Wednesday, when it was open, among the outfits out-fits headed west was one headed for Gandy and the Warm Creek ranch, where no news had been heard for more than two weeks. L. N. Rasmussen and S. M. Wolfe of the Ward leasing company, and Don Hopkins and Les Price were taking out two truck loads to Brog Hopkins and the others at the ranch. They had feed for the cattle . and provisions for the ranch. It ' , was thought they got through ; safely, but word came back Wed- ! 1 nesday from a herder that they were stalled ovef Cowboy Pass. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Parker and two children left that Wednesday, too, returning to their ranch in Pleasant Creek where 5 children were alone on the ranch. They got to his father's ranch, but up to Sunday night had got no further. It is thought by now they are home, though no definite word has come back. But a D8 was to be sent out the first of the week to open up that country again. Strangers in that country were a couple and trfeir four-year old boy driving from Iowa to San Francisco. They had understood Highway 6 was open, so drove out Wednesday too, over Cowboy Pass. The woman and boy didn't even have rubbers (Continued on Page 10) |