Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-28
A GRAND INTERPRETATION OF THE GOLDEN
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Written Specially For The Bulletin.)

ANAAtANn GptCAdAg EpE ne DuLielhIJ
 Some very interesting news has come out of Colorado. lately. At least it has been interesting to me. and perhaps may 2 be to some of you.
 For first taste they've but just got the MoTatt railroad which crosses the biE divide open for trains. Snow-plows and gangs of shovellers have been fight ing tho snow-drifts in its cuts and passes for over a month. Sometimes the blows would keep the tracks for ten rods. other times. they'd go of into the drifts almost as soon as they struck them I was not only the snow they had to fight This lay on the tracks up 10 late April anywhere from six to thirty feet deep. But the ice on the rails underneath was co thick and SO hard and SO slippery that neither snow-plows nor locomotives were able Co stay on or get any tractive grip. IT they undertook to buck the drift the drivers would simply spin use lcssly on the icy rails. and the blow would fling itself into the air or the ditch. So they had to fall back on shov- els and picks and human muscle. using the blows only Co clean up a little after the rails had been dug out of ice.
 Mind you. this fight was kept up practically all through sunny April" While We Of New England were wonder Ing what was the matter with the wealth or and why spring was SO much like a rold. sour winter. those people out in Colorado. shoveling snow with desperate anxiety. knew what was the matter They were face to face with it and up tc their nscks in it.
 As I've read in a Denver paper the story of their month-long struggle witt snow -ba -,lls at the very time they ought normally to have been blowing ana planting. I've somehow got an inkling o what has been the trouble with the res of our weather. Rocky Mountain snow drifts. they have been the generators o- the cold whrh has been keeping all tn, country eaz Of them in a state of des pair. With most of our air current! moving from west to east. it is no won der that thC breezes blowing over anC across that huge mountain system. stil buried deep in arctic snows. should b. chilled and frozen to an extent iron Which thev could uof recover befor reaching the Atlantic shore.
 H you don't like my explanation. vol have the Fndefeasihle right of ever! American citizen to deny if and mak up one of your own. But l shall cli1, Co it til some irresistible argumen against it knocks me off my pins No do hesitate to say that if my theor, is correct. Colorado and the Rock, Mountains ought 10 be ashamed of them selves.
 A little above I wrote of the gangs o men shovelinE snow in a desperate anx iety" to open that railroad. Desperate is the very word For, in the valley and habitable uplands which lay be yond the snow-bloclSed crest. where hun
 
 from all communication with the rest o the world and. some of them. in sor straits or need. Worse still. in @ way there were tholEsa7lds of cattle-horses cows and sheen-on those snow-encumb cred and sncw-u5ockaded ranches dyint of starvation. Unable during the excep tional winter Co eke out the barned ha- from pasturage on the open ranges, th ranchers' supply of cut fodder had beet used up earlier than usual Then, a tho very time when the thaws Of sprtn Fhculd have uncove cred snots. at least. O ihe nourishing mountain grasses. tn second winter Of March-ADril set in wit almost daily snow-falls. Hills and val isys were buried SO deeply that even th Niid elk couldn't pay up a mouthful O foraEe- Herds or the wild creatures. ar Customed Co living under severe nafura conditions. found themselves starvin and huddicd pitifuliy around scattere ranchCs in the vain hope that the hu man being there might help them.
 That was the knowledge which spun red the snow fighters on tho railroad { daily and nightly desperate struggle that they might open way to save bot incn and animals. peris1fng in the whit and hopeless beyond. Occasionally
 rancher on snOwshoes would make hi way to the fighting line with new an always more Er,iesone tales of the sta1 vation back behind him. One such force his way out with the appeal of a SUI fercr injured in some accident and slow ly bleeding Co death, because no surgeo could reach him. A Denver doctor cha tered an airplane. flew more than tV hundred miles over the unbroken sno Geids and arrived just in time to tie II