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Show HEAVY STORMS TO south of on R W. Emmett or Dee, Ore, in the! Hood River country is here Mr. Emmett savs that on the trip from Oregon the snowstorms encoun tered between La Grande, Ore., and ('ache Junction, I'tah, were among the most severe that he has experienced. experi-enced. On this point Mr. Emmett said: "Coming out of La Grande we ran Into a veritable blistzard Already there was considerable suow on the j ground, but at that time the heavens seemed to open the vials of their , snowy wrath upon the earth. From the violence of the wind it would seem that the snow could never be permitted to reach the ground It filled In the hollows, however, and the Bweeping winds cleaned the hilltops. 'In the fields we passed we saw horses standing with their heads away irom the storm, shivering in distress, as it seemed to us on the train Notwithstanding Not-withstanding the fact that the passengers passen-gers were inclosed by the protecting housing of the Oregon Short Line's steel passenger coaches, the searching winds found them, carrying small particles of snow into the cars and chilling the inside air to the verge of discomfort. What the poor animals ani-mals on the outside were suffering at the time it was possible for us only to conjecture. "All the way down from La Grande, Ore., to Cache Junction, Utah, was an expanse of snow such as I have I not seen in this region before. It I would seem that next summer there should be no lack of irrigation water, for the entire range of country traversed trav-ersed by the railroad is covered with one great blanket of snow " Mr. Emmett is a brother-in-law of 1 the late David Ecles and is prominently prom-inently associated with the Eccles interests in-terests in Oregon. He was identified with the constructing forces of the 1 Sumpter Valley railroad and is now engaged in agricultural and horticultural horticul-tural pursuits in the Hood River region. re-gion. .Mr. Emmett was director of the famous old Ogden City band, which was one of the first organizations of its kind in the territory of Utah His father, Thomas Emmett, was one of the organizers of the band in the '50s. |