June 9, 1915



My Dear Dougalss-



I attempted on my return to Vernal, both in the evening of the day I left your home and on the following morning before I started for Mack, to reach you by telephone, but failed.  I dropped you a postal jsut before getting into the auto from which you no doubt learned that I got through all right, but I am anxious to know what befell you in the storm which swept up the valley.  I hope that it replenished your reservoir and gave your graound such a good wetting as will materially help the crops which you have planted.  The storm struck us just at the mouth of Brush Creek, and we did not get as much of it as the region to the left and ritht of us, my prediction in that respect having come true.  It hailed furiously for awhile.  The water came down for about seven or eight minutes in sheets, but the tope of the auto and the lap-robes we had, which we used instead of side curtains, kept us dry, so that we did not suffer.  However, the roads beyond this pint were converted for the most part into gumbo, and just before getting into Jensen the machine skidded and went into the ditch and we had to get assistance to extricate it from its plight.  At Jen-