Show HH 0 e I 1 I 1 1 I 1 column dads I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 P CHARLES STREETS MEMORY OF EARLY DAYS REVIVED ItE BY GID sl SNYDERS RECENT LETTER dear dad the snow enow season Is rapidly passing we hope in your section yet while I 1 gaze on the ithe valley front of the wonderful wasatch that lift their summits to the skies white robed from pinnacle t to bas base e I 1 realize that deep snow grips grip tze the region r e beyond by the way those who sojourn la in soft southern airs in miss is 1 a changing once seen not soon forgotten I 1 refer to that same wasatch range that rises from the salt lake valley floor rough hewn and rugged magnificent in majestic gr adcur seen under the rising sun run clothed in kingly vesture of ermine with tints of rose and fire or when a setting sun aided by a cloud bank turns those proud sentinels of the broad valley from silver ilver to gold with a blaze of jewels in lavish splendor but hold my hobby Is riding me away from my purpose how I 1 love those lofty heights my old friend gideon snyder in ills letter to the record april opened a window to the memory of the old days now seen across the lapse of years not so tar far away old gid pictures a scene of his bis boyhood days and names a familiar list of companions among them nay my two brothers waddy and carey tom walden joe hunt and frank harding in tact fact I 1 knew most of the boys he be names some have passed and only live in tile the hearts of those who knew them I 1 remember something of those barrel stave snowshoes the ski name came in later with the swedes big jump it Is sate safe to say that none of them will ever forget that lively fun on treasure hill I 1 was then a young man engaged in the serious business to be found in the higher hills I 1 recall a deep snow winter in the eighties spent at shadow lake hhaynes canyon with a few men I 1 was doing the assessment work on a number I 1 of mining claims located about the head bead of the canyon from the lake cabin we traveled to the different points of work on snow shoes 11 now known as skis I 1 the ebs we called the blacksmith shop was at the lake cabin which required carrying the tools to be sharpened back and forth the loads were strapped to the back to leave the hands free and the trips were made on snow shoes or we shall say skis I 1 one of the men employed was a big finn really a border swede ike snell snella he was a past master worker in wood his simple tools a broad hand a ax find and sturdy jack knife he would take his wood from the pine I 1 log g or spruce and fashion the most perfect ski in a rack hung bung from the cabin ceiling he be would season the skis rubbed and polished in oil until they were as tough as whalebone ile he supplied us all with skis and made extra pairs ike snell taught me to ride the ski I 1 not as a jumper however before his time my experience was with a loose ski that Is with a cross heel piece and toe strap across ike insisted on having he in I 1 g the loot foot fast by means of two loop straps rap 1 on each side at first my fear was that in falling I 1 could not get away from the i skis and would have a hopeless I 1 soon learned that this method gave me perfect control of the skis and made it possible to follow ike up an incline ine while carrying a load on my back we used a 86 single pole to steady or guide with but we did not use it to push or hold by to a novice it seemed impossible to a hill of forty five degrees pitch but we did that by a system of tacking at a slow angle of say about ten or twelve degrees it Is an art however to learn the foot movement and body poise it Is done by sliding the front of the ski slightly lifting the rear and setting the loot foot with slight pressure at the end of the step this holds it if done right until the rear toot foot Is moved forward and a like step taken the step must not be too long and berf perfect ct poise must be maintained often it seemed to me that not alone confidence but faith was needed for success when with a forty or dixi sixty y pound pack a back slip meant disaster dl high h g h on a steep mountain side and singular as 3 it may appear a hard or beaten track was easier to follow than to make a new trail provided it was a ski track the second skillful movement in the climb Is made at each turn of the tack done by running r U level one ski length setting betting the pole into the snow on the up hill side bide and swinging the ski next the pole I 1 I 1 aid side high in the air to clear the heel while e twisting the ROM ankle e and setting toe where the heel was then it la Is simple to set the other ski toe with the first 11 and be oft on the new upward tack the length of ski to rear of of the foot must be made to suit the high kicking ability C of the person trying this movement going down from work was great tun fun as it was a line flight downward with the t speed of an express train toward spring when I 1 had bad come to believe myself an expert nearly equal to ike himself he and I 1 had taken a trip I 1 B to the top ot of scott hill ike proposed to el take a straight line tor for the cabin directly down the steepest face of scott hill on the thayne canyon side snow sides had cleaned ott off most ot of the snow and plied piled it on the tar far side of a natural bench near the bottom of 0 the mountain ike went first and I 1 followed a few minutes later I 1 lust just took one long breath shot down like a rocket and struck the raised outer rim ot of that bench then i shot high over the green tree tops delow lor for what I 1 still believe was the champion high ump jump ot of the world on skis but else alan I 1 lit broad side bide head down in three feet ot of soft oft snow enow with twenty lent feet of hard slide snow enow under antler that into which the heels ot of my ski skies were burled buried lour four leet feet deep with my legs crossed I 1 w was a r completely staked out head down don hill I 1 used my arms fashion to clear the snow so that I 1 could get my head out I 1 hollered for help but the evening wind had sprung up the I 1 snow now was drifting over me the night was drawing near by no possible effort could 1 1 I move my teet feet nor resell reach even my laced I 1 boots boota to cut the strings string to pull out my m feet I 1 ought fought loov lor or what seemed a I 1 long halt hour giving out frequent caa when at last ike snell found me with the aid of a lantern he had gone safely on to the cabin and waited expecting me to follow ike dug me out but found it impossible to tree free me except by cutting me loose loose from the skis then it took a great effort to pull each ski out good faithful ike snell it would not be fair thus to bring him into my story and not say more what rare skill and patience had he in all his work he made several tunnel doors for me with his wonderful ax so carefully hewn and fitted of three inch planks from the logs that one might almost think them sawed timber dressed I 1 told him that he took too much pains and time tireless patience he finished his line fine work and stepped back to survey it as he replied who sees it will not ask how long time but who made it he was the best underground I 1 ever had bad hla his work was practically perfect he loved the work as a skilled artist later on he became head at the daly west mine where he labored tor for several years I 1 believe on a I 1 fatal day this splendid specimen of r turdy sturdy faithful manhood stood on the I 1 cage with several other men at the shaft top when as the engineer began to lower them something happened I 1 have forgotten the details but the cage dropped I 1 thirteen hundred feet a and d the those 5 e men were later brought to the t he surface a c a in sacks yours truly CHAS E STREET april 11 1932 B T ai B is U PRESIDENT HEBER 3 GRANT FAVORS fagons COPPER TARIFF president heber J grant of the L D S church placed his indorsement endorsement Indor on the campaign tor for a copper tariff at the morning session of the annual L D S last conference sunday the church president I 1 lust just before the close ot of the session announced I 1 hoval A smith of arizona Is here working for a tariff on copper we wish him success in his efforts I 1 dont believe we could find a negative on that subject in this audience mr smith had been in salt lake about a week addressing various civic groups in his bis campaign to create a sentiment favorable tavo rable to the proposed copper duty 1 dad hopes the distinguished L D S leader feels as favorable toward the stabilization of silver as he does toward a I 1 copper tariff and we feel sure he does ass 5 R I 1 WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST VERY ANGRY AT alir DEMOCRATS william randolph hearst of the democratic cratic chain of big newspapers throughout the country Is exceedingly angry at recent actions of the insurgent democrats in congress and has labeled them the jackass rabbits and in explanation i thereof says in part I 1 the jackass rabbit as the emblem ot of tho the insurrectionary democrats Is a fitting combination of the jackass which Is I 1 the ithe appropriate emblem of the regular democratic party and the white rabbit which 4 aich Is the accepted symbol of timidity not to mention stupidity the jackass rabbit therefore emblem 0 of f the democratic revolutionists expresses admirably and perfectly the interesting te and obvious tact fact that this new bolshevist party possesses the brains ol of the ass and the heart of the white rabbit and la Is therefore devol devoid id ot of the wisdom to see its obligation to the nation and devoid of the courage to perform its obligation even it if it could see eve it mr hoover of course can be grateful to the jackass rabbits tor for the pleasant easter surprise of reelection election re to the presidency which they have given him but the rest of the country has nothing to thank thack the jackass rabbits lor for the jackass rabbits have become a pest in washington a scourge as they have boon been heretofore here in some other parts of the country and the only thing thine tor for the citizenship ot of the nation to do 10 1 is to adopt the usual measures in dealing with jackass rabbits and have a jackma rabbit drive at the election this fall and get as aa many as 85 possible of these destructive animals in a corral and proceed to knock them politically on their silly heads beada general Gs at once said that no mat ant ter in what a desperate plight the re be might be they need not despair tx the democrats true to dvir par party ty emblem would always do jojn 1 jackass thing to give the republicans the victory what the jackasses Jac kasses did not do to reestablish the republican party slid and to reelect mr hoover to the presidency the jackass rabbits did they ran out on S speaker garner and belleve you me brother a jackass rabbit r a may not be able to see very far ahead he may not be able to hear the peoples voice even with those long ears ol of his he certainly Is not able to think he has proved that but gosh how he can run they ran out in more directions than had ever been known to exist they brought forward a greater var variety e y of 0 legislation than had bad ever been presented in any legislative body in the history of the world they ran amuck mentally morally financially anci ally politically and patriotically they made the congress discreditable their party ridiculous and themselves themselves contemptible they made the republican party seem wise and good and sound and sane and loyal and altogether admirable they made hoover look like the savior ot of his country irom from the tools fools and fanatics I 1 they made trotsky seem like a conservative and stalin seem like a reactionary yes general grant WAS right perhaps the democrats WILL always do the wrong thing and perhaps it Is NOT MOT sate safe to entrust the country to their hands perhaps it is 13 best to have only two party groups in our country the republicans P public ans and the bolsheviks and two party emblems the wise old elephant laughing inwardly and the pink eyed pin headed beaded rattled and riotous JACKASS RABBIT 9 S ai S 5 WE HAVE REASON TO DC br PROUD says the last issue ol of the publishers hers auxiliary of new york dad ol of the park city record is very proud ot of his little granddaughter miriam of 0 alhambra california who la is a clever five cearold acar old tap dancer he has her picture in the record dressed in her dancing irig frock which she appeared in at the patriotic hall los angeles in a program lor for the spanish war veterans sq a th a S FOLKS LIKE YOU the world be nice to live in cheery through and through ja it if everyone eve ever YOUG were lust just as aa kind as a I 1 folks like you I 1 I 1 course we cant get all w we C alm aim for or every day its true I 1 but theres there a one thing n 9 never falls alia us folks folka like you i MI gaty sure when en I 1 for wc f shores beyond our blew I 1 shall find that heaven Js only palk like you |