Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-28

life.
 Talk about Paul Revere's ride! Seems to me that humane doctors brave flight of nearly three hours, in a zero tenn perature, two thousand feet above a rackless expanse of drifted snow, to use his skill in saving a strangers life, ev- cry mile at the risk of his own, deserves some commemoration.
 Even with all the resources of the rail- road and all the skill of it's trained snow fighters and all the energy of the thous- ands of volunteers who essayed to help them, the work was so slow and had to be done over again so many times, ow- ing to fresh snow-falls and plunging snow-slides, that additional gangs were summoned out to open a highway over another pass. This last attempt suc- ceeded first and, the moment the trail was declared practicable, huge sledAloads of needed supplies and forage were sent l over it to succor as many as horses could reach.
 Soon afterwaSd. the railroad managed 1 to get a few small trains across, and the | worst of the danger was met. But, as late as May 7th, that road was still be- | ing blocked daily in cuts and narrow 1 places by fresh snow slides which com pelled the shoveling gangs to stick to 1 LneH JOD, uay ana night
 ] Say, brother, we've been having a i tough time of it, this spring, right here | in New England. We aren't out of the | woods yet. But, really, now, are you sorry that you're a farmer in New Eng ! land rather than a rancher in Colorado ? l Would you trade even, if you had the ] chance?
 So much about the weather, etc The same paper which tells the story of the suffering of the ranchmen and their | stock and the wild herds of the over hanging mountains, tells another tale The second one is of practical Christian fly, applied to hay-mows and oat-bins.
 Grand county, over in the Middle Park district was one of the worst hit by the April blizzards Stockmen all
 over the county were caught with thous
 ands of hungry cattle and nothing tc
 feed them. Only very few had forage
 enough for themselves and to spare. The
 reporter who tells the tale gives the names of half-2-dozen of these latter tC
 whom the destitute ranchmen appeal. i'd. One was R. W. ("Dick'') McQueary
 He had plenty of hay and oats. They
 came to him, offering hin $75 a ton fol his hay which was worth about s25 ant
 prices that would turn profiteeI , green with envy for lis oats Did h,
 sell them?
 He did not.
 lie refused to sell a pound of eitheI
 to any of his neghbors Instead, he di Vided up his supply with them, as lont
 as it lasted, without taking a single ret , cent, only asking them to consider th,
 supply loan and return it when the,
 had a new stock Jones Brothers Cattl
 Company-the biggest cattle concern il the county-did exactly the same. Fran]
 Black ground up the seed oats, barle, and other grains he had laid in for hi 1 springs work and lent the feed out O,
 the same plan Al least three other
 who happened to be well fixed" arr l.quoted as having been equally generous
 One man had thus lent out forty-tv, tons of hay and five and half tons O
 oats when supplies from outside began ! TO drlOble in. He had been offered S7l
 Q ton for that hay. He will be renal,
 next summer with forty-two tons wort probably about S10 ton Not only thai ] but this man also gave all his own tim , Tor two weelIs-he is credited with he
 Ing "Colorado's greatest road builder
 the use of all his teams and tools and O f all his employees who could be spared
 10 the work of opening the road. ll How does this part of the stcry i'm , press you reader?
 l confess it brings Jumps into m - throat and sets me winking. hard an
 last to keep the tears back At the sam
 llme It makes me feel like going out int n the open and yelling ''hurrahs" till m ', tonsis are sore.
 h 1hese men were farmers, as you and e are They had the chance to treble an n 1uadruple their money All they had f s do was to take advantage of the ma, [ ket'-the market sent kiting by the nr
 cessities of others. -'' d And they refused to do it. They re