The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-11-22
Mercury Begins Rapid Rise as
Area Digs Out From Un-
der SnoWbanks
MOISTURE WILL HELP SOIL
Weather Bureau Says Lack Of
Frost Will Enable Water
to Soak in Well

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Clear and warm weather the next
few days is in prospect for Bismarck
following the heaviest North Dakota
November snowfall in "a years We'd
nesday, according to the forecast Of
federal meteorologists here.
The mercury began q rapid rise to-
day as a warm sun made its appear
ance over the Capital City. Tenn
perature scared above the freezing
mark before II a. m.
Moisture from the melting snow
will sink into the ground as there is
no frost In the soil, according to o.
w. Roberts, head Of the federal
weather bureau here.
North Dakota generally was warm
this morning. the coolest point at Z
a. m. being Max, where the mercury
registered 10 above.
State highway department work.
men were making good Roadway If
clearing roads of snowurifts and press
wire communication was reestablished
with st. Paul, though 1t was over a
detour circuit several thousand miles
long.
No. 10 Is Open
U. S. Highway No. 10 was opened
between Bismarck and Fargo late
Yesterday, according to T. G.. Plo-
massen, maintenance engineer of
the state highway department, who
said that more than 40 automobiles
arrived here from Fargo last eve
ming.
Flows today were clearing snow
from U. s. Highway No. 10 between
Mandan and Hebron and on
State Highway No. 6 between
Bismarck and Washburn, and it was
hoped that these two roads would
be opened before nightfall, accord
ing to George E. Hanson, division
engineer.
Forty motorists who were ma
rooned during the storm in alflimsy
hut west of Mandan, reached Man
dan yesterday after a snowplow had
reached them and enabled them to
leave.
Highways in the vicinity of
Devils Lake were expected to be
opened sometime today.
Daily newspapers in western
North Dakota today again were re-
ceiving news dispatches from st.
Paul, the wire circuit leading from
st. Paul through to Chicago, San
Francisco, Seattle, Helena, and into
this state. Emergency dispatches
were received from the Denver office
of the Associated Press Thursday
and Friday.
Rebuild Wire Lines
Meanwhile, work of reconstructing
the wire lines in the sle~et-stricken
Valley City district was continuing
with several hundred men employed
in the task. Local officials Of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company said they were unable to
make any statement as to when
wire communication between Fargo
and Bismarck would be reestab-
lished. These two cities today con-
tinued to make use of radio for mes
sages, with stations WDAY and
KFYR participating.
State highway officials said that
u. S. Highway No. 10 is slippery
between jamestown and Fargo and
that snow still is causing trouble
between Bismarck and jamestown.
They expect to send plows back over
the Bismarck-Farg stretch Sun
day.
Temperature in Bismarck at Z a.
m. today was 20 degrees above zero,
the highest yesterday having been
33 degrees. Other North Dakota
temperatures this morning were
Devils Lake 20, Williston "a, Fargo
%, and jamestown 80.
5000 Poles Down
About 5000 poles were down in
North Dakota, most Of them in the
eastern part of the state. Between
Valley City and Fargo, linemen
found 7,185 breaks in the wires
which were carried to the ground
under the weight of the sleet.
After the storm had subsidized, tel
ephone and telegraph company Off
Gals ordered out men to remove
poles from highways in an effort
to eliminate traffic hazards. I. G.
CARL, Fargo, general manager for
the Northwestern Bell Telephone
company in North Dakota, and E. ].
Hanna, plant manager, personally
the work on the roads.
Telephone company workers today
worked to set up temporary COM
munication wires, or to repair lines
which suffered lesser damage.
Valley City was still cut off from
all wire communication with the
outside because Of the extensive
damage to lines in that area.