Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-04-19
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Mr.. W. Minor Rovglis, chief engineer of
| the Northern Phcifc ItailOrad, In letter dat
ed February "a, 1878, makes the following au.
| thenuc statements; $50 li Hs.a.4
On the finished line across Minnesota. from
Deluih TO Fargo, the road has been run all
winter with remarkable regularity and free.
dom from snow difficulties. There has been
lees necessary delay on the Northern Pacific
road this winter than upon the roads east Oi II
to Chicago and New York. Considerable
snow has fallen In eastern Minnesota this win.
| ter, but tiiefe has not been an unusual amount
in the western part of the state and across
Dekota. The occasional snow fences opposite
the excavations have served their purpose
well. I ...t
In common with the rest of the country and
with Europe, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and
the entire Norlhwesl have bad most unusu-
! al winter season. There have been some days
of very severe weather, but 1t WIS quite as
cold about the same period in most of the Eas-
tcin States,
In January at Dulutli,,te thermometer rang
ell MS follows. during the middle of the day:
average, " deg. above z. 70 lowest on the 9th,
when II was IL deg below zero tire highest.
22 deg. above, ON tile 20lh. Absolute lowest,
early in the morning of the 28th 25 deg. be.
low zero. AT Duluth, in February, To the 18Th,
average, ~ DIG. above; lowest deg. below (;
highest, 81 deg. above zero; absolute lowest
| early in the morning of the 2nd, II deg. below
AT Fargo. on the western border nf MINI.
esotnY in the optn parties OF Red River VAL
ley, the range of the thermometer was us fol-
bows average, deg. above; lowest, 16 de-.
below highest, 81 deg. above zero absolute
lowest early in the morning OF the 9th 90 deg.
b low zero. AT Fag' in February, to the 18Th,
the average WAS Il d Z. above; lOwcst L. deg,
below highest 33 deg. ahOve; absolute low.
est ON the LIST 10 deg. below zero.
In The Rpcky Mountains, east Of the main
divide nj BoZenmn, near the high,s elevation
o III" Northern Pacific route, from the 9th in
the 25lh OF January inclusive, the average
temp rnturc was 30 degrees above zero; low
est, % deg abovei highest, A deg. above ah-
snlute lowest, early in the mornfHg OF the 23d
IL deg abUye Zero. 1t is nUtiCeubIe how
much mildcr the weather has ben at Boze.
men, near FOrl Ellis, and about 5000 feet n
bovr the sea, than in Minnesota and Wiscon.
sin near the level of the uk,s. The farmers
OF western Montana began their spring plough
ing in the Latter part OF january, the winter
in that section being considered over, and the
roads were dry and dusty.
On the western slope ut the Rocky Noun
tains, in eastern Washington Territory. th,
, local papers state that the farmers of Walh
Walla valley were ploughny their fields on
the goth of january, though the early par
of the winter had been, us esew here. untsuall,
cold for the region.
The winter climate along the Pacific Divis
ion of our road, between the Columbia Rive
and Puget Sound, which is in regular daily
opperaion, may he inferred from the fact thn
~ Portland, Oregon. The average temperature
or January was 45 degrees above zero; th
bight was 5S deg ami the lowest 81 degree
J above. Snow fell on one day, the I'd. To
depth Of two and half inches. Grass ha
u been green throughout the winter about Puge
Sound, and several varieties of flowers wer
in bloom out of doors in january and Februa
ry.
Our exprener on the finished line, and au
thcnlic yepoFls from the remainder Ol the route
satisfy me that the Northern Pacific road,
completed from Puget Sonnd, would hay
been kept in regular operation the entire dis
iance the last winter without difficulty.