The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1904-03-16

across went the plucky horses.
Third trip and every body over and
smiling and mail preserved in good
shape. When the load was all on
once more, the watches indicated an
hour and half since reaching the
opposite shore.
At every creek on the mountain
the water had cut deep gully down
through the ice and snow, and where
the stage did not stand on end, we
made flying leaps across, and where
ever there was depression the
horses broke through the well-soaked
snow into the treacherous water be-
meath, which was sapping the life of
the roads.
At noon, with horses well winded,
Stevens station ten miles from Coun-
Gil, land ten miles short OF the usual
dinner place-was reached and q
good dinner was ready. A change
OF horses and the slow dreary plunge
through water-soaked snow was con-
tinued. Where warm springs had
melted deep holes on the inside bank
it took good engineering to save the
stage from tipping into the muddy
bank. Above old miner Fillie's cab
in the down stage was met-Tommy
White with bob tailed cutter from
Norton's station. He also had ex-
perienced merry time. Having
painfully reached Price valley the
front of his sled had plunged out OF
sight in deep, mushy stream OF
slow moving snow and water and the
half buried, half drowned horses
could not get it out. After getting
wet to the skin he had gotten the
horses loose from the rig and out.
His three passengers, one lady,
had waded mile or more to Norton 6
and Tommy carried the mail down
and pushed on with the bob-tail, the
lady on the seat and the two male
passengers walking. Another big
job when they met was to unload
and turn the rigs around by hand, as
} the bob-tail was no good to go or
down with. Tracy and Lockwood
5 walked from the meeting place tc
t Norton's, where the stage hung uE
t for the night and the down stage
e stopped at Stevens, both ten miles
short of their destination.
A telephone was sent to Meadow
s and another team came over in th'
8 morning to the creek where Tomm,
! stuck to meet US. 1t had cleared of
|. and frozen during the night and tn
Il road held up the horses, and but TO
IT the lmpassable condition of tn
e deep, mushy creek, and the ''catch
y ing up" for the failure to reac
le Meadows the night before the secon
d team would not have been required
1T Both outfits drew up on opposit
k sides of the creek, which was abou
| ~ E.. of ho N
,e where we could jump across but wa
ID about four feet deep. The baggag
- aud mail was transferred across an
q the Meadows team turned aroun
II and Tommy started back to meet th
stage from Council. Our stage g
: to Meadows at noon dragging throug
= continuous string of deep holes
water and mush-snow. In spite
the freeze the torrents were sullenl
- and silently, in the level meadow
80 crowding along without any appr
r. ciable fall. The water in the Lift
a. Salmon Just touched the bridge, al
u is seriously threatened with beII
taken out. At one point In the la
- beyond big stresm covered {
~ bridge 70 a depth of two feet, b
The horses feet found the bidd
~ -, structure aud We got through. bat
~ - hide swerys to one side snf
- would bsye been 10 seven feet Of
- 80 satsr This WAS oply two days
r ra the life u the stage driver "bo =
~, hage the sarae sblgg fof tbe pssi
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