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Show Lost Mail Plane Hunt Revived In Alpine Hills An intensive hunt for the .lost Western Air Express plane carrying seven persons which was last neard from on December 15th and thought to have crashed on Granite Mountain Mount-ain northeast of Alpine was revived early this week when word leaked out that William Healey and Frank Bateman, both of Alpine, had picked pick-ed up two letters near Lone Peak which are surmised came from the lost plane. The letters are reported to now be definitely connected with the plane and a small city sprang up over Sunday, Monday and Tuesday on the mountain composed of searchers, newspaper reporters and just curious folks. Camps have been established high up on the mountain side and the snow covered mountain mount-ain is being combed for the airship air-ship but due to the fact that there is an almost endless country of peaks, ravines and valleys all of which are covered with great depths of snow, it is a real job to find just where the plane is buried. Healey and Bateman are credited with having located a drift of snow from which water carrying traces of oil is trickling and these two searchers search-ers are probing this section for the wrecked plane. Recent snow storms have retarded the search and made progress impossible for several days prior to yesterday. Grant Ingersoll and Norman A. Wing were among the searchers Tuesday who went to the top of the mountain. They report there were over thirty men and youths in the Lone Peak section that day. Plenty of snow and a vast, rugged country was their comment when asked what they thought of the prospect of finding the plane. Reports from Alpine late yesterday yester-day afternoon were that no new developments de-velopments had been made in the plane hunt, although the sunshine had made searching easier than it had been any time this week. However,- at the snow line elevation the sun had made little , impression even on the newly fallen snow. The establishment of a camp by C C C enrollees and officials of the Provo camp at Millset, near the snow line, is making it possible for searchers search-ers and reporters to maintain a post nearer the center of the search which generally points to Lone Peak. The $1000 reward is throwing all types of people from various parts of the state into the hunt and as the snow recedes more and more people will make the trip to the summit of the mountain in quest of the plane. Some of the searchers have expressed ex-pressed it as their guess that it will be weeks and even months before the snow recedes to a point on the mountain where the lost plane can be found. I |