Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-03-14
sa1a Glo GRADES
NJ ARCH IA

administers the following Well
meritel reproof to the chronic
GROWERS which infest every com
munity:
On the 9th inst. dispatches from
the East announced the blocking
Of many railroads in that section
because Of the fall Of snow. In
the vicinity Of New York we are
told that travel was much retard-
ed by a six-inch fall. A dispatch
from New5urg snoke Of drifts two
feet in hight, AMI Of trains being
stopped by them. 4 Poughkeep-
sic dispatch told Of roads being
blocked by snow foot deep on
the level. A Scrantgn pa dis
patch related that thirteen inches
of snow had fallen in that State,
and that on the mountain divisions
railroads were blocked and trains
had ceased running. So the story
went on; all over the East the
snow fell from six to thirteen in
ches deep, and drifted to the hight
of two feet; whereupon the rail-
road authorities called a halt, and
traffic ceased A terrible calam-
ity, to be sure. Yet, in the upper
Sierra. on the East border of Cal
ifornia. AMI in the Shasta mount
aims on our North, snow fell to the
depth of eight, ten, twenty feet
before any thought of a blockade
was entertained. Between Colfax
and Reno the snow was from eight
to twenty-five feet deep on the
level, aud along the track routes
the drifts were from fifty to one
hundred and fifty feet in hight.
Against such obstacles the railway
men of California threw them
selves. with a resolution to con-
quer, and conquer they did, and
today trains are running between
banks of snow on these routes
from ten to fifty feet high.
The carping, fault-flnding press
of this Strife that began to- "howr'
so soon as a solitary train was
stopped. and scourged the Cali
fornia railway men because for a
few DAYS the forces of nature pre-
vailed, have not word to say in
criticism of the eastern railway
operators, who retired their loco
motives to the round houses in
the face of drifts Of enormous
hight of two feet, and ceased to
accommodate the public when the
snow thirteen inches deep imbeded
the way. There is no winter that
on the mountain divisions of the
California roads the snow does
not fall three times as deep as
that reported in Pennsylvania, and
vet the California trains sweep
along, and such a thing as a
blockade is not even thought OF.
The truth is that we are given to
expecting more Of California en-
ergy, pluck and the go-ahead
spirit of our own than of the
Eastern people. The loud GROWER
the persistent grumbler in the late
Sierra blockade was the Eastern
man. who cursed deeply because
the railroad men did not tunnel
in an hour or so through snow
drifts fifty feet deep on an up
grade of one hundred and sixteen
feet to the mile, at an altitude OF
over six thousand feet. These
same Eastern grumblers think 1t
is not at all strange that their
own roads should "shut up shop"
when thirteen inches of snow con-
fronts the iron horse. And, as
said. there is no word OF COM
plant from the carping critics oil
the California press who belabored
the California railroad officials
soundly, because few days OF
delay resulted from fall OF snow
that drifted along the right OF
way from fifty to one hundred and
fifty feet deep. Verify the evils
that are far off concern us little
and our charity for those who