The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-30
A TYPICAL SNOWST0RM
Laying the Foundation for q Sea
son Of SlsighinG.
WINTER IS HERE TO STAY
Twenty-Four Hours Continuous Fall OF
the Beautiful in Butte-Pienty OF
Work for the City and SUI
burban Street Cars.

A typical mountain snow storm has
struck the city. and the manner of it's
start indicates that 1t is laying the
foundation for q long season OF sleigh
ing. For more than a week attempts
have been made by Boreas to do the
proper thing for the season. but the
best he could do was to blow a pierre
ing old breath acros the country last
week and e the mercury down in the
neighborhood OF zero. The ground was
put in the proper condition for the re-
ception Of any amount of snow with
out melting IL as II fell. Consequently
yesterdays fail stayed where IL fell.
II has been an incessant ~downpour for
- hours-not OF the big fluffy autumn
flakes that turn to water as soon az
they light on your ear, but the fine.
rasping. healthy nodules from the FROST
encrusted clouds of the nimbus region.
One indication favorable to those who
rave bet that winter In here to stay Ii
the absence of wind. 1t appears that
the inviting zephyr from the Japan cur
rent a succeeded in banking up
against h high Rockies an almost in
exhaustible supply of ran clouds. and
hat these hav resolved themselves
into a huge aerial reservoir. the Hood
gates Of which are now open for BUSH
ness.
oO ~ u ttoIIII IraS Iau nO III tIttbS
on the railroads and telegraph and tele-
phone wires, and probably will not be-
fore the o Is piled up in drifts here
and there. Then reports of blockades.
delayed trains and FRUSTRATED wires
may be expected.
The street car company has men all
along its city and suburban lines keep
ing the tracks clear Of snow. At times
the wheels slip on the rails and the car
saftsaAA 20 nnx huf lfhAVal annIlaa-
lions OF sand make the wheels take
hold" and away the car goes just AS II
does on a Fourth of July.
The wood-haulers are doing good
business and their loads sell for $3.50
and no questions asked. They report
bad roads and say that the price OF
wood will in all probability go up to IS
and $3.50 before long. Those who came
TO town yesterday from Elk park say
three feet deep: in Browns gulch Is
inches: in the Lowlands two feet and
in Homestake and Blacktail 20 inches
and still showing.
Last year there was little snow i'm
the mountains up to February, after
which the fall was unusually heavy,
resulting in an abundance of water for
mining and irrigation purposes last
This fact. however, the gold
bugs say. was probably due to the re-
publican administration. The fact ~
pertinent. too. that more gold was taxi
en- from placer mines in Montana last
summer than the year before.
Last night and Monday a few parties
enjoyed STRAW rides by the light OF
the silvery moon
The wheels of the delivery wagon are
being stored away and the runners take
their places.
Snow shovels and scrapers brooms
and choppers are seen I'm the hands of
the side and crosswalk cleaners.
broad and long.
Coal is the chief article OF commerce.
and arctics second in import
The hobo Is distingulshable among
the horde whose summers wages have
been j~udiciously handled.
A s~orry-looking individual sat behind
big bar-room stove yesterday telling
auditors how 1t all came to pass.
I'm pretty hard up" aid he. but I
propose to lose by my efforts of
the past summer. 1 located Is quartz
in this vicinity and am here to
dispose of some OF the best OF them.
I've turned over two good things this
week. and" %slapping his hand down
his ankle and working his fingers
nervously, I'm about to turn over
another one" His listeners agreed with
him. but one of them remarked: N
use turning IL over, pard. 1t has legs
both sides"
The snow continued to fall in all its
m~agnihcence.