Jan. 5, 1925. lire J. M. Browning, Care Heublein Hotel, Hartford, Dear Conn, Daddys: The weather report you saw in the paper was not without a the leteup. snowstoms not so heavy not few day so days, Fin that had round them exage= gerated. I do not remember such a long period of zero weather and the old timers remember only one. Here in Ogden it went to 15 below several nights, and just by way of showing what winter can do in this valley when it tries, it snowed from six to twelve Ogden for the seems inches two or to have been right in that the reports indicate three times the of center snowfall was surrounding localities. Fortunately, the fall was We had an anxious heavy in the vicinity of Rozel. however, following the 23d of this month. On that 'phone ¢ that blown up, away and there one until had been a tremendous herd. He was we his report got just a windstorm starting out few laterwe were gotten that days to , in very When we heard flom him again, however, he ree much disturted, with, a loss of only ported that he had got the band together The head. eight coyotes have would probably if of There is less than it had been good hunting weather. snow out there, and the wind has piledit up in large so that of deal good a is ground the We cleared. are many a foot drifts having to feed more corn than usual, but our facilities for doing this are so good that it seems unlikely we shall have any severe The weakest sheep are being gradually assembled at the losses. vonnor Ranch, 3 The where cold wave they can has stimulated have better the feel and coal business, attention. and they are just now planning to work two shifts at the Blairtown mine. The Lion mine was cleaned:up and closed early in the season, as a means of reducing expenses, and it will be a good @al cheaper to operate two shifts at market has not improved, to er than ever in the history timated taken the that out about Blairtown than to reopen speak of, and prices are It has of the business. bituminous mines throughout 460,000,000 tone up the Lion. The still lowbeen ese country have November, to the @md of inventory at the store, with an average loss of about 50 cents per ton. Our reserves will carry us through this year without borrowing, but even if winter should stretch out two months longer, we shall not nearly be able to make up the losses. The entire organization is — working hard to effect every possible economy, and is ®veloping an efficiency which would not have been possible in prose perous years. We are in the midst of shall not time yet. volume be able to make a Bob, however, is will run at year, and if this least and detailed report for some little pretty sure that this year's $50,000.00 provesto be the ahead of the previous case, it will be a pare