in first class shape. Heretofore the road across this flat has always been an uncertainty. I remember when you were bossing the road gang you said you wished that you could have storm culverts put in at all of the ravines. When you come again I trust you will see as good a road as you could wish.

We are still in a wilderness of snow. Stockmen have been looking anxiously for weeks to see the snow vanish. There are tens of thousands of sheep and cattle to feed, they can do nothing on the range, and hay almost gone. The spring is coming late and oceans of snow to go. It will probably take much time as we are out of the path of frequent chinooks. However it is fine working