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Show M SNOW BLOCKS WORK IT TOP OF Ml NEBO A party of the U 9 oast and geo-i logical survey, under Captain Oeorge D. Cowie, has been engaged on the determination de-termination of the latitude and long! tude of a number of mountain peaks in Utah during the past season and has recently rompelted 1's operations. In his report on the season's work, Captain Cowie stated that a heavy snow storm occurred the first part of, October while the observing party was , climbing aft Nebo, the highest point of which is 11,871 feet above th sea leel. After remaining on this peak several days, the party had to re: urn to the canyon below on account of the great amount of snow and the inability inabil-ity to work under the conditions encountered. en-countered. The snow on the peak was two feet deep and the weather very, cold. When the partv returned to Mt Nebo after the slorm, it was fminti that the tents, which had been left on the peak, had sngged With the weight of the snmv and the melting snow had leaked through and staked the bedding which made sleeping very difficult and uncomfortable. On rire;:k-ing rire;:k-ing and shoveling out a trail to the peak, on the return of the part after the storm, the members got snaked They were unable to have a fire on the peak, so had to sleep in their wet clothes At nicht Ihrir shoes froze on their feet and severnl cases of frost hite resulted. Considerable difficulty ;is encountered encoun-tered in getting the equipment down from the peak after the observations had been completed. A toboggan was built from rough lumber and on fihs the outfit was dragged to a point lower down on the mountnin from which pack animals could trael During the descent, de-scent, two of the burros fell off the trail and, although the animals were saved, some miscellaneous equipment and instruments were lost in the deep snow Daring the heavy storm which drove the observing party from Mt Nebo, all the liglukeepers on other peaks show inc heliograhps and signal lamps to the observer al Mt Who, were also driven from Iheir stations to lcwer ground Later fhe wereable to return re-turn to their stations and the chief of' pan finished his observations. While on Mt. Nebo. Captain Cowie suffered I from snow blindness. Captain Cowie'fl party has now moved mov-ed to southern Arizona where it is do-i ing similar work There the weather1 conditions are not unfavorable at this: time of the year even though some of the mountain peaks on which he will make observations have considerable' elevation. Captain Cowie, who has been an officer of-ficer of ihe coast and geological sur-ve sur-ve for ten ears, was a member of' the American expeditionary force in' France, in the artillery . |
