The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-02-05

q Is snid DlHi the safe limit OF low
temperature in which you can drive
O. hors. b. about 90 degrees below
t.r, but even then Ia" air must be
stiil. for wind inicnsiHes cold. that 10.
It's motion pulls the heat of your body
out through h thickesi clothing
The danger with the horse Is thar ne
wnl freeze his uostrils and his lungs
u ~ said that they nave a city or
, dinance IN Dawson. Yukon Territory.
Canada. prohibiting the driving of
horses la woathcr lower than 50 de-
Fress below zero.
with dogs they can take car" Of
themselves. They Just won't 20 when
H b. so degrees or more below zero,
that is they Won't STAR out for YOU
easily. but will demur about n, and
lonk back nt q and Try 20 turn
hack and generally act sulkiiy. 10
course. n they are already on the
tran. and u gets intensely cold, they
simply hurry on. ana de- the best they
can. ~ you have To- de- Yourself, but
they viii turn In - the nrst sign of a
cabin or roadhouse almost In spite of
your urginR.
Dogs are surely the real min for
"mushiuE' iu a cold country. To my
miud they beat reindeer @ nile Most
90 them weigh less than "a hundred
pounds aud they distribute their
weight over their four feet. go that
they Fan trut over n weak snow trust,
where a man would sink out ut sight
by h~reHSing through the crust into
the soft snow below DOGS Will uot
along when the temperature b. hfteen
above, while that temperature ape
pears &C. be- too warm for reindeer.
and the sweat Ike hciters iH u
However ON good hard trails reindeer
do quite we'll ana can haul good big
sled loads. Il o. surprising though TO
see the big load "a team ~ ten eond
dogs can haul. on a good level
smooth trail ten logs can trot along
with a ton 81 freight behind them.
Five or six hundred pounds Is "a fair
load though on poor trails.
A peculiar thing, that many do not
know Is that a l2-foot sled, 22 10 "a
inches wide. with runners two and a
quarter inches wide, bearing a load
of six a. eight hundred pounds, VIII
not sink through a snow crust that
viii MOI bear IA man, hut will let him
NMAh ~ IVY wv
because two runners two and "A quar-
ter inches wide. aud twelve feet long,
give a large area 81 hearing ON the
crust. This coupled with the motion.
that Keeps the sled passing over all
the time. @ for the remarkable
fact ! ana speaking o. once went
some twenty or more miles northwest
OF Nome. Alaska. with the United
49,. .m-.I. - -. II Iii WWan.uE
forvlngI trips. lie had nch a sled as
am desorlblng. The sled aud the
load Including Us two men weighed
easily about zee pounds. No dog in
,ho team weighed less bar O go
pounds, yet We skinned along as n
Ne were IN an alnbaster door. But
when We stopped. % my establishment
when J got on the sled, I sank in over
my head IN the snow. and "a to be-
pulled along to q place where the
wiud had blown the snow nearly down
10 the tundra before ! could reem-
lark. The crust would only bear
about 60 pounds IN ans one place, so
the dogs and the sled went along ali
right while I went thFoueh. In deep
soft snow. though IL Is tough workine
with a dog team. ~ two men are
along, N s~uowahoes ahead 20 break
trail. and the dogs with their tails
down waddle along behind him, a.
best they can. but slowly. while the
second man WORKS with the '%'geepole'
which Is q long lever sticking out be-
hind 10 steer the sled and keep ID Ia
the broken trail. II only one man u
along. then the "geepole" "a very Ions
n IL Ia front, and The man snow
shoes along ahead OF the leader dog
with one hand on the pole steering
n Il killing work FOR both man and
dogs. One 81 the greatest dangers ~
''mushing IL e-ncountering water an
der the snow on the river ice. In ven
cold weather, or breaking through IN
10 hollow places who're the Nreau
has sunk away from under the SEE
This is the most dangerous OF all ah'
often when Il happens a mar ls isyasl