The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-18
Automobiles Are
 All Showed In

the effect that all of the automo- piles which left Fairbanks for Chit ina during the past week are showed in on the trail between Rapids and st's. More snow than was ever known on the trail at this time of the year has fallen, and with a 60-mile gale blowing a portion of the time, impossible drifts have ac cumulated in places.
 The party of engineers of the Alaskan Engineering commission, headed by Commissioner Thomas Riggs, Jr., is now at Vests, accord ing to the report waiting for the blizzard to cease, when they will continue their journey to Meier's with double enders. R. C. Wood, the local banker, is with them Bob Sheldon is waiting at Meier's with one of the big Jeffrey quads to take them cn to Chitina.
 lN the meantime, "Scotty" Lyons and Skelton, the two drivers who took the Riggs Wood party out, are having their troubles. Lyons wired Saturday evening to the N C. head quarters here that the two Dodge cars are buried under five feet of snow and that he has no hope of getting them out until the ga,a abateS.
 Other automobiles immuned on the trail by the blizzard are those or the Keys family and Fred Clinton. MT. Keys has wired here stating that it is impossible to go through with a machine at the present time Clinton has eight passengers on his bg truck
 The first mail of the season from Chitina arrived at Salcha Sat ! urday. Harry Martin will attempt to put it across the river and it will probably arrive here some time to- day. Northbound mail number two is stated to have left Donnelly's S yesterday morning by horse drawn 1 stage.
 Maurice Ashton with F passen- gers, including the marshaps party. on the second Jeffrey truck to leave
 Fairbanks was scheduled to reach | Chitina last night, according to the report received here
 Later reports last evening were 70 the effect that the Clinton auto truck is now on it's way back to Fairbanks. Its passengers were taken 'n toward the other end of the line on tho N. c. double enders, as were the N C. pas sengers who were stalled in the storm. "Scotty" Lyons is returning on the Clinton truck. while Skelton the other driver, is assisting with the double enders The Dodge cars have been deserted for the present. where they lie buried under five feet Of snow, as all of the available horses are being used to take the passengers on toward Chitina Horses are good enough for me-" said Volney Richmond. superinten- dent of the N. c. company, yester- day. We have demonstrated that to run automobiles over the entire trail during the winter is entirely lmpracticable. Our operations with the machines will therefore be con fined to the Fairbanks end of the trail, from Fairbanks to Donnelly's, or the Rapids. and from Meier's, on the other end of the trail, to Chiti- na'
 The Frame automobiles, with pas. sengers bound for the interior, are
 'tated t0 tr stalled at Paxson's. Tho Frame brothers will wait there un- til they can travel, and will bring the machines on through to Fair banks. Tom Gibson is also stalled out the trail with an automobile.
 The weather report yesterday shows that it is still blowing at McCallum's and that it is 2 below zero. It is calm at Donnelly's, with the mercury in the thermometer standing at the zero mark.