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Show uiy SNOW 10 FEET ON TETON PASS There is at present between 10 and 12 feet of snow on the Teton peas, the main highway between Victor unit the Jackson Hole country m Wyoming and the roadway which forms one of the hlghwoyi from Ogden to the southern entrance to Yellowstone national na-tional park will not be open for automobile auto-mobile travel until along about Jum 20 th. This statement was made this jnorn-in; jnorn-in; by E. P. Ellis, forest clerk of the Teton national forest with hendquar- I ters at Jackson. Wyo.. who arrived from that place this morning for a conference with officials at the district dis-trict office of the force t service Tho roadavay Is open, however, he said, for traffic by sleds and wagons i Wagons are used out f J'v ks.m t., Crand ill where loads are transferred to sleds. The weather conditions huvv prevented pre-vented work on the farms in the vicinity vicin-ity of Jackson, he said, und farmers are Just beginning to plow, tl," i'-oii being about SO daye later than usual. Cattlemen in that section are taking an optimistic view of the future ol that industry, he sold. Residents throughout that section are preparing for the moneter oelebra-tlon oelebra-tlon that is to be held In Hobaek canyon can-yon ln view of the opening Of the Hobaek Ho-baek canyon roadway construction work on which has bean completed, Mr. Ellis said. The celebration Ifl scheduled for July 14 and 15. Mr Ellis expects to be In Ogden for about a week no- |