Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-07
A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS.
TIE STORM KING!
Snow Shoes, Snow Shoes, Snow Shoes.
He il Saved =!


Republic, when there were surface diggings at
Oroville, which like bread and milk poultice
drew out a part Of the corruption of San Fran
cisco, there dwelt by the sedgy banks of the
Main Feather, the yet unsalivated city of Orc
vile, ''The Gem of the Foothills.
After lifes 1itful fever (4nd a-;ue)
She sleeps we'll.
That was in '56-vigilante times. And 50
it was nice, clean city. Mr.. Hobart was at
that time Deputy Sheriff and Tax Collector,
and he deserves great credit for his efforts
there in preserving the peace.
About this time very accommodating and
satisfactory stage line was run between Gro
Vile and Marysville The fayorte driver
(for Hall and CrandalD was our old friend
Van Hooker, We met him yesterday for the
FIRST time i'll 200 years. Ole used to drive
the stage hence to Aurora and must be very
very widely known to the older residents Of
Carson.)
LOST N THE SNOW.
Mr. Van Hooker having an engagement
with friend and. business acquaintance
whom he had agreed to meet here lin Carson)
and whom he had failed to meet when he ex-
pectcd 10, started on Tuesday week, January
20, ult., to make the trip hither on snow
shoes. He and Osgood of the dangtown toll
road (who lives on this side the grade)
started together. OF course they did not start
on snow shoes; but they did start from
Placerville afoot and fetched up that evening
at the Pacific House Here they were over
taken by a rain storm. But the next day,
notwithstanding the inclemency of the
weather, they made Morriss ranch Next
day they struck Dicks Station and there
they took snow shoes That day they made
II miles and fetched up at the Strawberry
House, Charley Watson's place. The next
morning they made Osgood Sat the foot of
grade, just as you strike Lake Valley on this
side of the first summit Then came the iron
works. He, Van, leaving Mr., Osgood at
home, started alone, on his snow shoes for
Genoa. He fetched along all right, with
spanker boom floating in the amber moon
light and everything flying allow and aloft,
past Fridays, past the zig-zags of the grade
till he struck the summit Then, as he |
turned his eye to the West'ard and Southar |
he saw the black clouds of a gathering war of
the elements marshslling themselves for
battle Then, buckling on his armor taking
a reef in his snow shoes, and brailing up his
dunnage, Chewing up his fore t gallan main
jib downhill agin the waist), ne gave himself
up to the riotous ride down the mountain
side. He was trying, in vain, to scud ahead
of the storm Indeed, he was going ''under
bare poles for his balancing pole was what
sustained him and kept him from breaking
his neck. He was eight hours in the tenn
pest He finally fetched up at the Hermitage
and found hospitality and the blessed boon
of safety. This tremendous feat was done
across country" A man liable to be
blown into the fathomless depths if he started
to fetch across the kingsbury grade. Gillett
found Van at Genoa and brouhgt him here.
Such feat as he performed was never before
successfully accomplished The wonder is that
he got through at all But he is here as
sound as a trivet!