Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-01-28
THE ROTARY SNOWPLOW.
1t Is Voted . hOwllng Success BY q
Large and Appreciative HALEY Al.

eyes of this whole community were
kept turned upon the lower end OF
the valley for the first faint sign OF
its coming. Shortly after 3 o'clock
q dainty streak Of black smoke was
seen floating along the hills bordering
Silver creek and the word soon passed
around town, 1.-THE rotary is in sight.
Anxious eyes kept watch of the
sign from points of vantage, and
soon it was reported as having
reached Bellevue. Then the youth
and beau y, the aged and common
looking began streaming toward the
HALEY depot. Now, the site Of the
aforesaid depot is not one Of the
warmest places on earth. as the wind
which was blowing down the valley
soon demonstrates to those who had
congreRat-d there. The waiting
room contained red hot coal stove,
but the aforesaid youth ard beauty
occupied about all the available space
in its neighborhood and the aged,
ETC., had to make themselves as com.
Portable as best they could by pacing
up and down the cold and cherries
platform. The crowd inside by the
warm stove enjoyed themselves as
best they could, aud the crowd out
side kept as warm as they could BY
specializing upon the movements of
some animal which was laundering
in the deep snow Oh the hills east of
the city. Some said the Animal was
deer, soue an elk, and it was
variously put down to be badger, a
wolverine, a coyote, a skunk bear,
and nearly everything else which has
a home in Idaho aud has hair on it:
but no one yet knows what it was
Thus the time passed for an hour.
AT last it was decided by vote that
the snowplow had reached q point
this side of the Half-way-house.
This was disputed, debated upon, and
discussed pro and con. Another
half'h"ur of waiting and shivering,
and it could tie seen approaching the
samplihg works. "But it is not the
rotary" the cry goes up. This
caused burst Of indignation and
some other language not fit for pub
LEGATION. Then, as the monster
labored on nearer and nearer, as if to
forever silence the slanderer who had
uttered the cry, white stream of
snow forming beautiful curve shot
out fully 40 feet, and again the cry
went up, this time in a cheer, sit IS
the rotary" 1t pulled up to the
water.tank and stopped.
During all this time the weather
had not moderated in the least and
the crowd had become pretty cold.
But they were bound to see the ma
chine, and so the sterner sex passed
few curses around about railroads
in general and this one in particular,
the ladies again sought the warmth
of the waitingrooms, aud time
passed on.
At last two shrill blasts we're
out by the locomotives and
the grand stampede began for good
points to view the machine as it came
in. The agent had shoveled the snow
from the depot platform and it was
piled on the track nearly six feet
high the whole length. The crowd
we're anxious to see the pillow go
through this. On came the black
Tipped, red-throated snow 6end, and
the crowd almost held its breath as it
very quietly, gently, and with seem.
ingly no effort at all cut its wav
the huge mass of snow, and
the rotary snowplow had arrived.
The crowd gazed on it, admired
it, aad had it not been so ponderous
aud eold-looking would have EN-.
braced it. 1t was at once suggested
to take up 4 collection on the spot
and hay and keep it here. Aud in
deed it could be used to very good
advantage in Haley, just now.
The crowd as soon as it had seen
all there was to see made one grand
rush for their homes, and in 10 min
utes after the arrival Of the rotary
Agent LaMunyon was left alone in