The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-10-14
Lost In the Snow.


Cox, a miner, who left Bonanza April
~ for Stanley Basin. expecting to get
work in the placers at that place. Fail
ing to obtain work, he started for Saw.
tooth City, distant forty-five miles, and
campcd on the night of the 14th ut VAL
ley Creek. The next morning, shortly
after starting out, he met two men from
Sawtooth, and made inquiries about
the trail. These men either misdirect-
ed him or he misunderstood their die
rections, for on arriving ut the creek
that flows out of Reddish Lake, he took
up that creek instead of keeping on
about six miles further TO Beaver Creek.
He followed the creek, arriving at the
cabins at the head Of the lake about
three p. m. Surprising the town was
Just beyond, he kept travelling until aft
err dark Then snow-storm setting in
he became bewidered and wan
dered about in the timber near
the summit of the Atlanta pass d.
vide until after midnight. Final
ly he got his bearing and started back
for the cabins, when lie became
aware that his feet were frozen. Throw
ing away his roll of blankets he hast
ened forward, making the cabin tho
second time at about eleven o'clock on
the forenoon of the 10th. Hastily build
ing fire, he pulled off his boots and
found both feet frozen. Not being able
to pull on his boots again he concluded
to use the only remedy ut hand snow
poulticeA-to relieve the pain. He kept
his feet poulticed for four days. but at
the end of that time, finding the snow
brought no relief, he discontinued its
use. His next thought was to keep a
good lookout for passcrs-by. He would
crawl out of the cabin, take n look. and
crawl back again. No sooner back, and
hearing the swaying of the giant pines
that surrounded the cabin and mistak-
| ing that noise for the sound of human
voices, out he would crawl again, only
to return disappointed. During the,
long, cold nights, suddenly awakened
from troubled sleep by the hoarse
screech OF n night-owl, he would crawl
out in the darkness, hoping for the long
looked-for assistance, only to be moro
thoroughly aroused to his real situation.
There being no wood at the cabins to
keep the fire going, ho burned up the
rough board bedstcnd, cupboard, and
other cabin furniture. together with the
thinking from between the logs as far
as he could reach. which he knocked ont
with an old short-handled AK that he
fopnd This exhausted he kindled n
fire in one corner Of The cabin. which
burned the ends oil SIX or seven logs.
when the corner OF the house dropped
down about five feet. Putting out the
fire with snow. he kindlcd fire in the
other corner on the same side, which
burned down as did the first. thus get
ting the middle of the logs for fuel.
About this time, despairing of assist
ance passing bv. he conceived the idea
of making q pair of hand snow-shoes,
with which to try and crawl to the set
Element. He used the old AK in split
tine and cuttiny n cabin LOO to the re-
ouired size-about twenty inches long
bv five inches widc-then cut his boots
for hand straps. which he fastened to
the wood WITH nails he pulled ont of the
cabin walls. He then made knec-pads
with the remaining parts OF his boots,
making them No puffcd M and thick as