Body retrieved
A party of 15 men, headed by Sheriff Jess Robinson, returned from the Doyle mine Saturday afternoon bringing the body of Mrs. Jane Rees one of the victims of the snowslide of Feb. 16. The five others who were killed were allowed to remain in the slide until it is safe to try and get them out. They are buried in sixty feet of hardpacked snow and ice and the area continues to have dangerous slides. J.A. Pratt, manager of the Hesperus Mining company, said he would leave three or four men at the mine to keep watch over the property and the icy grave of the dead men. Mr. Robinson told the Star editor that he never in all his fifty years in the mountains of Colorado saw snow conditions any worse than they are at present time. There was fully nine feet of snow in the timber near the Red Arrow mine.
Another fatal slide
A snow slide Monday morning killed three men at the Camp Bird mine at Ouray, according to meager reports. It is stated the slide ran at the upper workings of the famous gold mine, destroying the boarding house at what is known as the King lease.
Rough roads, bigger wheels
New standard models of Chevrolets equipped with 19-inch wheels, two inches larger in diameter than the regular wheels, have been made available to purchasers to provide extra clearance on unimproved highways. The extra clearance is in demand by such users as rural mail carriers, owners of farms located off main highways, sheriffs and deputies in undeveloped regions and others whose duties require them to traverse unimproved roads.
