The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-08-28
Snow Bound on Prairies
Of South Dakota
BY G. I. GIBBS.

for It. One full plow to break fifteen
acres. But got the Job done and got
home Saturday night and got my sixty
dollars for 1t. Then the job was 10
get coal and provisions for the win-
ter. l got all the coal / thought nee
essary: $50 pounds Of flour. q 2-bush-
el sack of cornmeal. a barrel CT
crackers. rice. sugar. beans. corn
starch. etc. etc.
!, On the 9Th day OF December It COM
menced showing and II kept coming
and In January the railroad was blo-
Ickaded- They finally raised the block
ade and got train through to Mitch
ell the last day OF January. That was
the last until the goth of May.
We soon had work enough. We had
to shovel snow from twenty minutes
to two hours every morning to get in
to our stables to feed the stock. So
January. February and most OF March
passed with that monotonous round
seeing nobody and not hearing from
the rest Of the world.
Towards the last OF March the
grub began to get low. I had built n
lean-to TO Sayille's house 20 please the
women. SO they could be near each
other. savilIe's wife and mine were
the only women there were On more |
than 100 square miles OF territory. |
Twenty-Five miles TO q doctor. But
We had an addition to our family on
Thanksgiving and got along all right. |
So here the last OF March told the |
other two men something had 10 se |
done. l didn't propose to let my wife |
and kids starve. They said: You |
can't do anything" | said "I'li try
So hitched up the mules TO the sled |
and started. When I left home my
family had a loaf OF bread. Cavities
had loaf and half. quart or two
of beans. probably half bashel of
potatoes. culls about as big as your
thumb. l had to go to Piankington.
nine miles. to keep on a road that are
had kept open by driving over II
enough to keep the snow packed and
by splitting up boards and stocking up
stakes to show where the track was.
Nine miles to Piankington. then -
miles to Mitchell.
when got to Mitchell and put my
team up and made the round of the
town, found couldn't buy a spoon
full of floor nor n cracker. nor any
thing else eatabie. II was all they
could DO for me TO give me my meals
at the hotel.
But I found q man that had ten
bushels OF wheat he would sell me for
n dollar bushel. told him / would
be on hand 10 load II early In the
morning. when / went 10 get the
wheat quite a crowd OF men gathered
around. Why. they said. you don't
propose to try TO go to Militown do
you? That's just what / am going to
do. They said. for Gods sake. man.
don't go. you can't get through. You'll
lose your life and your team. told
them had wife and four little ones
and they were going TO be hungry 1:
didn't get them some grub and II
died trying that would let me out and
nothing else would. Finally one man
said: II have four bushels and u
you will take It you may have the
bran and shorts" said: Load IT
on
II was a good forty-nve miles 70
Milltown. One house on the road
one-half mile on the road didn't
sec any smoke as passed. made
the trip all right Those croakers at
Mitchell looked longingly at the fiour
when got back. but none Of them
could get up grit to go and do like
wise.
Mr.. savilIe would go in and talk