The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-30
Ten Feet of Snow on a Level at
Lookout.
THE CAMPS ARE LIVELY
Hundreds OF Men Are at Work and the
Mines Are Being Run at the Top
Notch-Flush Times at Wal
lace-Whitney Killing.

| every Wlnd that blows, but the real
heavy. solid article that comes down in
flakes like flapjaeks and sticks like a
creditor. Snow mountains high, piled
up in great heaps that rise like high
| hills on all sides. Snow through which
| the logging roads run like abrupt
| walled canyons of small rivers in
| mountains of marble Snow till you
can't rest. That Is what the traveller
finds who goes from Missoula to the
Occur d'Alene country this month and
1t is not yet February, the month when
| the heavy snow usually falls. From the
| lower Missoula valley to the summit of
/ the Idaho divide the snow steadily in
i creases in depth, till at Lookout on the
! top of the grade, it is 10 feet deep on a
/ level and the heaps that have been
thrown up by the snow plows rise high
above the cars on each side of the rail-
way track. 1t is a beautiful sight, but
| the train men fail to appreciate the en-
| thusasm which is generally manifest
1 cd by their passengers 1t is a nuisance
TO them, and they do not enjoy the
beautiful in the least. AT SaItese the
snow is about five feet deep and the
/ paths from the station to the stores and
hotels on the street back of il are cut
out of solid drifts and are not so wide
as to insure safety from headend COLI
W los
From there to the summit and on
down the west slope of the range to
Wallace, the ride in the cars is a pleas
one one. unless one attempts to rival
the brakemen and ride on top of the
cars Then he Will appreciate the posi-
ton of the railroaders and cease to
wonder why they do not like winter on
the Snake run. The big rotary snow
pillow starts out of Saltese ahead Of each
train, to clear the track of its passage,
F..l
there on the hill. Behind this trail
maker the train tolls up the steep grade
behind the heavy engine in whose cab
Milt Cheney holds the throttle, and who
has pulled trains over this perilous run
twice a day for many years. The run
is monotonous to him but to the occa-
sional traveller 1t is one of the finest
rides in the world.
When the climb up the mountain is
begun in earnest. the passenger in the
train can look up the side of the hill
across the loop and see the snow pillow
working its way through the new snow.
the rotary throwing it's big white
stream high in the air and clearing a
way for the train behind it. 1t Is in
marked contrast to the old backing
method of making clear track, and
this year there has been no delay
whatever on account of the snow. Inn
provements have been made in the
pillow and the trouble that was expert
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ana hundfeds OF men are at work
Inc Mammoth, Stahdafd, FRISCO,
norman ana Tiger are All shlpplng all
the concentrates lhat thelt hlis can
produce, ana there Is soon % pc another |
miil putt at Gem TO handle the NAM
moth ore, inc Poorman ana Tiger |
plant Is working 1ult plast ana the can
yoh Is seeing better times than IL mas
Tor many years. over at Wardner the
Last Chance ana the Bunker HUI ana |
SULLIVAN mines are GROWING their rec |
ora Tor production ana the town Is |
busy place. The rush OF prospecting /
that was started three years ago mas |
there are numerous new properties in the |
Nine Mile and Sunset districts that bid |
fair To rival the older properties in /
production and richness.
Just this side of the Montana line, in /