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Show uu BLIZZARD IN CACHE VALLEY STOPS THE ELECTRIC (Special to Tho Standard.) Logan, Feb. 2 The entire Cache valley is tonight in the grip of a terrific ter-rific blizzard, which old resldonts say exceeds any storm within the past 30 years or longer. As a result, almost superhuman efforts are necessary to keep oven local traffic moving on the Ogden, Logan & Idaho electric line between Preston and Mendon, while large gangs of shovelers, with snow plows, are finding It difficult to keep cuts open on the Oregon Short Line. Two railroad trains loft Cache valley val-ley today. Both were delayed about two hours In making the trips through the valley, and had difficulties In getting get-ting through Bear River canyon and the Colllnston cut On the electric line, no cars went further south than Mendon, while cars from Ogden wero reported as reaching Deweyvllle. Between these two stations there Is a gap of about 25 miles, across the divide. P. D. Kline, general manager of the company, was In the Logan offices of-fices of the railway during the day directing di-recting tho efforts to open up tho line across the divide. Under direction of Supt. Road and other officials, hundreds hun-dreds of workmen were busy in tho cuts, their work supplementing that of snow plows driven with great electric elec-tric locomatives. But the blizzard proved too severe during the entire day. The top of the cuta were high abovo the cars, the snow plows and the men. The flroco wind would fill the gaps again tho shovelers would throw the snow on to the sides again the wind and snow would fill the cut. Such was tho record re-cord for the day. "We'll keep busy until wo open the line again, but this weather condition Is a hard one, It means a real battlo," said the railroad manager. At many places In Logan, the snow Is "four feet deep. Very few automobiles automo-biles and even fewer wagons are on the streets. Sleighs have displaced them. Tho lumbermen working in th Cache national torest have been driven driv-en to the valley by tho snow. They have found it useless to attempt their task of "bringing out" the logs. Eight to sixteen feet of snow Is too much even for lumbering. The cattlemen are all feeding their stock, keeping it under shelter as much as possible. |