The Somerset reporter., 1889-12-19
A MINERS CHRISTMAS.
HOW THE YUlE TIDE IS CEle-
DRAFTED UP IN THE ROCKIES.

| HOW THE YUlE TIDE IS CEle-
DRAFTED UP IN THE ROCKIES.
"stng" Dances-In the Lonely Cabins
| Where Two "Pards" Are shut In Tor
Months by the snow-Flowers from Low
Ing Letters-"Home, Sweet Home"
Imagine point in midair about two
miles above New York city, and you
| have the elevation at which over LOCO
miners in Colorado spend the holiday
| season. They are shut in by snow and
| ice, and for months to come they Will
know as little about what is going on in
the busy world as though they were sail
ors on some vessel frozen up for the win
| ter amid the icebergs of the Arctic re-
gions Early in the fall, before the
snow flies, they are housed in on some
OF the lofty peaks Of the Rocky mount
aims, and not until May or June will they
again mingle with their fellow men.
1t lis often the case that some one of the
boys is a good fiddler, and Christmas
night he will rosin the bow, tune up the
| old fiddle, and with alternate "pards" for
;,I H. bou. Mill Jo,ca and naLa
-
No.. mn 10.
49, -. ,,ho ara sh,, -, i,
- 80. g. ~ u,;n,ar Thara ara
~ -, ash;ya fa.,'n tho r,a,,,,,a;r
H. - IL, di.,a,t fror, l,,,,,
habitation Here three or four men are
snow bound together for the winter.
,.nar5u IN tho m;n;no c,,ons means al.
rn".t ~. san,a 90 .nnnrad.p dn.s in IN.
TLa;- f,h.;s,,,,.,a ,,,,.,l /, fr,,,,ol
ana and Nth oaaar Ionaina, the;r lets
IN -, 80. -, tha3 daa, go
80 ,oi. 60 aaa,ar, ~, "a
r. a.. Ill -. 49,.
do;nn It;.,t ,heso bol;dav t;,oo rho,
~. nro.noctor nd wands~sr lonas For
81 "a eoi.,;oa. =, - - ~
do.r fooo. ho hoo No, coon for v.aro
rar Mouth. ,hor ha,a ,,ndoroons nan
harlsh;n. 80 nr;nat;ons 10, ,hrnnnb
ha;,.traaI,, oa,n. Ia .h.;ll;r 10,
,rr.. ond Va, l., ,ha Chr;.,na. t;,,. al,
tha ,a,dor,oss and 1--we ,b.t come. viii
,hougbt. of bome 10 in tbe;r beart, In
,h, ,e,;,,;,,, - .ho pool,r ,,o,,r
,nina - hpard it'll ,rro,,n. .;nx
L. .,, 80. ~, +. 80 a. ~
rnnoh as t. no, ths ,,.,od, aa,h ~ in
hoart =. bo ,honobt ~ home II WA
.,nn in ,bat dr.ornn L;nd - nav .howY
;na 49, tho than1,ht. - al 80 70,
- nna onh TO- ,,.o. ,h;,,,,;n ,s
u.oll a. s;no,;,,, al .hat 70 800 d;d
.t..l 80 ,,ri,,, ,,;.o,,oa s,o, thor.
til. ,,,,,,es,i,. :, ;t 800 ~
Iw,s ur;t;na ahn,t thn ,ono,v oah;r
TIL .oo,o IT, =. 80 ol,,,. ,.. -
norrv n,alina ot Christn,a. of thosa
,ro ,bn ,lyoIl tboro aIono for ou,v
frny, al eantant m;,h -. nar,a aoIa
hunter asco,;cs-op. NOW no sick 10
yo,, c,,,Id forcs ro,,r ,,ay ,hro,,nl ,h.t
,.;11o,,,as, - 800, re, H. Ia,,,L I'll,
Co.. !. l. I,al.aI iii 20, -,
,,,s;n,, md ln,,i,a, faithf,I u,a,o,, Lu
his sici7 ..nar5 :" II nav be n san watch.
inc, h., tbd oot 81 = fatIar WI, ;a tla.
ola man hraving all thos. bardsbins2
Ara ,bor, 10 tho ,nort,,o,,o ~, ,ha .ostarr
h6,a II ,hov e,d ,ha ,,ro,;o,,s ,.ai,, hr
snr;,,c, roxt C;hr;.,,,aa, LIN 6nd no, ia
-, -, e., IL Al. pa,,1,o I'D
Won vv;tpess such sconos 40 ,hosa az
have dore Won would teli tho oil man
,hat vo,, u.ovld ba D., Gtt,s e,sy about tho
;rta.1,., -, ..,l,,,t mr. - ,tat h,o
trouhIed him 90 long
Ono Christmas snent nm -, tho
mountain e;da VIII, tu,t ~, ,hraa othor.
- ,l,n.,, ,,.a hi 49,. L,i;I.,, H.
ona II u.,s u,holo.or,o ,,o,I L,t vet
inc IN ,hoso dol;cacios that ,noIh.r or
IT, on, 10, rro So .to.,,,
was raging along the mountain. but
,,,;,h 90 ,toors,,l e., ,nd 49,, oo,,;,,
we cared nothing for it
"If ,yo bod eon,a Hou,aro for tho u,;sb
,oblo " so;d ono IF tho bove