New-York tribune., 1885-01-19
SyOVBOUND FOR NEARLY 4 MONTH.
HARpsnIrs of clint" " WHEELER AND TWO
OTHER PACIFIC RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
Fx-po,,co Commissioner Dewitt G. Wheeler

u,ppsups of CLINT" WHEELER AND TWO
OTHER PACIFIC RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
Ex-polce Commissioner Dewitt G. Wheeler
welcomed TRIuuSg reporter with genial smile at the
Gilsey House last evening
;, ON van want To hear something about my trip to
the Pacific do you Well. sir. believe me-
- WINS the most remarkable ono / ever
,ooL In company with ex-senator Alexander
vcDonold OF Arkansas left this city on November 10
Mr. Mcdonald, X. Il. Langdon. OF Minnesota ana my
sef were appointed q short time before by Irc'deh'
Arthur commissioners TO examine and report on the
recently completed section oil tho Northerh
Pacific Railroad between the Columbia kiVer
and gatas in Montana. We had I<eas-
mt trim across the continent to Pugets sound
We returned TO Portland Oregon on December 10 Sho"
had been falling almost incess'ntly since tho io' ou
had not given any particular trouble except Ho "c
lay We started for homo on the evening ot inc lo'n
ceneraI Adna Anderson Joined our party at Portland
We ran on regularly but not very FAST on account Oh 'o
snow past bonneville. forty-seven miles IRON Portland
and had lust got settled down TO nice quiet game o
cuchre when noticed that the speed oi the Tram Slowly
.iackencd. and after going ABOUT loui n
beyond this station. IL caIno To sthhdauL We "eio
.tnck fast I'm snow drift least nfty feet deep VIC
cot out OF the drift after much uggng and started oack
rr bonneville, where arrived after some hai9 suo"
bucking 1t looked several times ~ II we Wouu o h
et hack II showed the next thirteen days vi ,no
iv, I,o snow was higher than the locomotive SMOKE,
stack Bonneville Is n village only Ia name' .ho o,,S ~
the wooden shanty Oh ic toioBPh
Dn,,i'nn rnipr On one aide of tho track almost within
jumping distance, was the tnrDnion. y" phs other
was perpendicular wall OF rock 4.ooV Ieet nSn ~ u ~ ~ o
places. We were bockaded III Sui15 Bale n town Of
about 200 Inhabitants The guliey exienus& VS. Mrs' o @
Dalies about forty miles: "e nea,d anJ ao passenger
train at Vlena about seventeen miles east Vi un @
W. lad been fed snmptuously til Were bloekaded
and then cook brought us down 10 p",n u kftep
had only about weeks provisions on p4alu 81, ,r
IA pf q xile the sonniHplnS
Portland that could not be hseh ou @ pero rrhen
That same night there no sloet ana Tour @
men marched up and down the ear i ine ','", sp
was impressive and was broken onP Gssnerai
Xndefson' which sounded to ears like Boys lots
put the spirits down to keep the SPIRITS w ,yas
~d, ON ,now.s1ors 10 hog car and for the next two
weeks had many different dishes on Po' , ~ hack 70
genuity OF our cook could suggest Mnen We so "r of
g. Paul may ray here, that every one oI us s"oe % on
from pork fora year We had c,r s Wiling 70 bear
ing matter ou board, and am petieS.s when
testimony that Ia regard To our olher
there was anything na niener tan any man ever
knew or heard Of The only shadow that leil upon US
Mes Msssr,. ."' Mcdonald and Lanedon to convince
the that they born to sing. kegamns& ~ M h
~ SeSSn sSy anss .eora .@s a1S Icy
aims Several times also during tho Gay 'nyy y wy'"
got reports the passenger sed Ifd nnG
and heard that the people were ShIierms hoy Though
they had our sympathy could not aid shs% Sont
Lieutenant Carroll who WAS at caseaae a. esneJiton
OF fifty men, who marched To the tiaih on s" rev
each carrying twenty pounds OF blno W IT, ,ha ianten.
days aferward an onslaught was made ny the iou.or
ant and his upon cattle car huhoei ,ars y. So,
siau ghtered carried 10 the starving Psso r.
ON 80 we got word that ]. NJ Bnlkey' OF tno
| Northern Pacific Railroad. had starea @io n"m nnn
Helena with seven locomotives, ana -oo ,ha,d a
| for our relief Every day We ",,o rate NJ
the wires that he approaching US =. .host
| from i've to ten miles day On January ., ,od ~
o'clock In the afternoon heard the weieome sh
whistle from AN engine and with nnai purst st
the gully, which threw the snow ~ least h So. thai
into lhe air, train la sight neodn sa! The
| t was welcome. Bulkley was much hggoJ n1 h.n Tor
4 tasL ho had In reaohiug DO understood wneu ~
miles he mad 10 blast through twenty or uifty
solid Ice The road being opened we Went on hr
| tho road and got back TO Helena on January O. '
| been SION -bouad ior twenty three daya