Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-23


yards of the track, merely paving
few inches of snow to get at the
grass.
On January 8 one of our ranch
men returning from the Bismarck
hospital with his wife who had been
i'll there. drove twenty-five miles
from Hebron to his comfortafle
home with his wife and young babe,
merely having a canvass covering
over the sleigh box for protection,
the journey being made safely and
in comfort.
Up to that time this ranchman's
cattle had kept in good shape graz
ing among the hills. Conditions
have not changed since that except
ing for one cold snap.
In portions of Montana where
grass is very short and rain fol-.
lowed snow. causing thick crust
of ice on the snow, conditions for
live stock are serious Snow is
deep in the northern part of the
state, and is heavier east of Wind
sor and jamestown on the Northern
Pacific than west of there, but we
ought to expect snow to abound in
the winter time.
4 North and south lines of railroad
where ample provision was not
made by snow fence protection diff
ficult work was encountered in
cleaning the cuts.
In North Dakota on the Yellow
stone division snow fences were put
in good shape last fall and no snow
trouble has been encountered there.
There is not snow enough on the
main line of the Northern Pacific to
stall a jack rabbit. Snow fences are
drifted full in some places. In
some places they are bucking snow
with horses and wheel scrapers on
the main line, hauling it out few
feet to have it blow in again with
the first prairie breeze, but such
work helps to keep both snow and
money in circulation
The difficulty on the main line is
caused by packed fanges and not
keeping the snow Hanged out from
: between the rails so that engines,
especially in the cuts, can get down
steel to steel and preserve proper
traction power
Another thing, passenger trains
are held at the terminal and inter-
mediate coal docks to clean fires.
blow up steam, coal up and tender
engines in the hurry up fashion,
when such work ought to be done
off the main line, and trains kept
moving. Under good principles of
government it used to be considered
disgraceful to tolerate such work on
the main line, even with freight
trains.
For such reasons and dozens of
others the climate is now being
blamed and where our land Office
has had 400 or more homestead
filings per month for the present
season the enterprising as wen as
the timid will prefer an expedition
to the north pole in preference to
settling in North Dakota, if biz
yards are magnified and ordinary
winter weather put in terrible
aspect by alarmists. Isl
sit is time TO quit. pounding the
railroads, but it is also time for the
railroads to organize and check the
Decentralization. .4.s
EXAGGERATED STORM REPORTS.
The people of Hope, says the James
own own Alert, are kicking hard over the
publication of picture purporting to
snow q snow scene of the present
.ime, at Hope, printed in widely
Minneapolis Journal. The
Hope folks say the picture was taken
en- years ago and does rot represent
he situation as it exists at present
4 all and shows worse than it really
va" va IN 1897, besides. The picture was
.aken from depression and made to-
ook as il the snow was up almost
evet with the tops Of the highest
building in the town.