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Show SUPElTElOElI SI ID IS FIE FROM smw M. J. Read, superintendent of transportation trans-portation for tho Ogden-Logan & Idaho Ida-ho Railway company, has returned from the heay snow drifts on the company's line in the vicinity of Dewey and Collinston, after spending a number of days directing the work of raising the blockade. lie states tlat the track has been completely cleared of snow and there is little danger of further blockade this winter, win-ter, as the snow Is heavily packed and cannot well be drifted by winds. The superintendent says the most serious trouble was over about five miles of road between Dewey and Collinston. The cuts were filled with snow in depths ranging from three to six feet and so heavily packed that the snow plows could make but little headway. One hundred men with picks and shovels were set to work to remove the snow and work was kept up incessantly for three days. To protect tho roadbed in future time, snow fences will be erected in tho danger zone and in some instances instan-ces snowsheds will-be constructed. |