Show old ti time be blizzards hit the san juan country HEAVY SNOW RESEMBLES NIBLES OLD TIMES clear and calm on christina christin as eve while the children were were singing songs and kicking up a dust around the community christmas tree waiting for santa claus to acme C by automobile and horn hom instead of sleigh 1 and bells it jook like a snow storm was just jast around the corner comer and literally too just around the corn corner er of cf the mountain for long on before daylight the next morning now snow was fallin ing here and far beyond the borders of tin this s great san juan basin after a cut day breathing spell with clear skies and sunshine another snow storm struck with blizzard corpor eions continuing with unusual amount of wind over the blue mountains and monticello district inadequate road clearing machinery in an emergency kept east and south bound trucks and cars marooned in monticello Montice from oneto three days however everybody seemed to accept their detention with optimism since for the last three years this section of the country has been classified with drouth alrea area according to the report of af mrs li ii E blake government weather reporter for monticello district there has been 27 inches of snow from christmas morning until december 3 when the stormi quit again leaving ing perfect calmness and sunshine once again the entire country has put on the appearance ot of early days stockmen Stoc kmen dry tanners farmers and irrigating farmers are wishing each other a prosperous new year prospects of which are alre adyln evidence asfar as far as s moisture no nois ture Is is 1 concerned and ma ports to date are that the entire sane juan basin has come in for a good share of the white manile |