Uintah Basin Standard | 1964-12-03 | Page 1 | 2 More Rescued from Xmas Tree Expedition

2 more rescued from Xmas Tree expedition The Duchesne County Jeep Posse alst Sunday morning responded to a call to assist in rescuing two men from the Nine Mile area after they became snowed in as they were in the process of cutting Christmas ACCORDING to James reporter for the Kay Marchant and his of had gone to the top of Cottonwood Canyon in the Nine Mile area to cut Christmas Saturday they had broken an axel on their and that night and Sunday several inches of new snow resulting in their needing help to get out of the Ralph father of made the request to Sheriff George Marett for The entire posse moved to Nine Mile and were able to rescue the men who were about 4 miles on top of They had to use Duchesne County's to move the snow-bound men to Two weeks ago two other men were rescued from the Hill Creek LAST WEEK the Posse held their annual meeting at which they elected Charles Jenkins of Roosevelt as their Bernard was chosen with Clyde Larry James and Leo as The meeting was held on