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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1890)
10(5 WEST SHORE. The ktJm ran U rrrrrl m in throw the snow to rive, and no more ch rerious trouble may be ex. the MUr side of ib. track .km i",ary. Thi. ma- l-l. The Central Pacific, the pioneer in mow plow- chin work, Hbl; ahead, cutting out a rhn furrow ing. was the woM blockaded of all, the old style of through the u,,. through which a train mar pa., a. flow Uing unable to do tbe work given it, though through an ordinary cut There it i "bucking" J.IW tmn wermploycd as assistants, notary, and machine will do more than idoirn The I'nion iVific kept continuously employed two "bu.krrV" and make a Utter job of it. With such Miry d-ws. rxn-pt for a few days during the woret marhinra a. thit .now thrdt will fall into disuse, part of the storm, when one of them was disabled. TlW haa Urn a machin invented known aa the Notwithstanding thm and the services of several "Ju!I (Vntnfujfal Snow KiravaU.r," which tnurh re- "burken" and aUut .V men, the road in the Iilue tmhb. a at amrr'a pr..j-IJrr. It w,rk on tl. wrrw mountains was closed for ten days at one time, and at pnnnplr. U.fing iu way inti tU snow, which is car- shorter interval previously. Passengers accumulated rv lak by the thrm.1 U, the rar and expelled by the hundreds on Ixth ides of the mountains, in through the chute in the uti.r ky at in th Mary daily nj-n tittion of getting through, while trains were machine !y tb.i mahine irtow ran U thrown to rut ofl" in ( I rand Konde valley from progress in either niUf or l.-th ti lrt of the track at will, th change U- direction. The road was blockaded both along the ir.jj male without stepping The r t j riii.mtal rxca- main summit of the Hlue mountains, U'tween I'endle- al-r mi only n.mphted lale last winUr, and it it ton and I.a (irande, and the Powder river spur, be- barif.jr it pratical t-u made on a frw ratrrn roads tween (irande Konde and I'owder river valleys, the the prtwtit An a wr!l a on the t'nin Pacific, latter Uing the mod serious. As fust as the plows AtftUr ma bin on the rw principle it the made a parage storms drifted the snow again upon "Cyclone Mr tit .''now rj..w." TU int of onta t in the track. Several times the road was almost open, thi machine It in the rrfitrf of tic acrtw. In otUr only to be sealed again by the drifting snow. One of rdt the h m-w hafl joints dimtly aUad In the the Jull plows was brought out from the east to re Jull machine tb shaft it lnrlind downward, and the pl.it the rotary that had Urn disabled, and immedi augrf j.tit U but a hoft distance alve the track. atly ujn its arrival made an attack ujhhi the almost Th rye loe plow ha r"t yd Un brought wrt, but unconquerable drift in I'yle canyon and cleared a pass it rntitmg a thorough tt on eastern ra U this win- age through it in sixteen hours. At the pamc time the W rotary om-d the line over the lllue mountains. Thus TU prr--f,t riti hat len unprecedented on the the blockade was raiwd and the delayed passengers IVioC rit f .r the amount of anow that bat fallen w err wnt on their way rejoicing, while the tons of mail and the Uttgth of time the i )Trion of ttorms hat that had Ui-ii accumulating completely swamjied cHmtinuoI, In d;rwl fntrat with the Atlantic tiM, rvery .tollice in the country. wbf re an rth-rrl niil lr.r hat prn ai!eI that cau-t m .-- the bain of that I'..rran rrgion to stand in awp of a .Notwithstanding the unusually severe weather and wrathrr fUfk capable of wh an mrntrx ity. Since Uavy snow fall .f Central Washington very few cattle the f.M day if January thrre hat Un one n.ntinu- have j rished from closure on the range. Stock is out UttU with the it.. n all linrt. and f.r day w at nut h-ft to rustle fr itself, however, except in a few in- a tut. train bate rn mr jfJ at f .e .,rti,.n of stan.rs. One firm in the Yakima valley is feeding the track. TU Northern IW.r hat Urn f.rtunatr .,( head of cattle and another 3,1 JO. There is plenty enough U, krrp it. track jn. and h. had U;t few of hay and st.. k is ei,.rtI to winter in good condition, trrtou. drla,, but the hnrw of the Nthrrn IV ific in In S,uthca.wm Oregon, Southern Idaho, Northern Vlhern Cabf .ma, of the frntral IV if in the Sj. Nnada and Nrthea.tf rn California, the situation is e ta Nevada huin., of the fnU Vtfi in Ka-t- n,t favorable. Ut year the season was dry and em an Lranr h fn iVmlon to Sp. ... hay than usual was put up. tut little is now on f t ,,l,,,,iM ntl" M n""-V ,,an',a of fattl turned S.uthern I n;ar M ,:rA Sha.U. the ,., tUt r.T.ifta With the ojj U!ijorevJ " in tcckm " a rhri(v t . . i i i i , ,,, t ,i , . , ... , , . "'nTtl",'",,,rrM''l'eneiththfni. Thousands fu4 t k-p tra,k Uxt, and it .a. 11 ckaJ ,4 irrM, . tfal tnvr, at ore tK:e rr::.;nir.g cirl f r a wrk 1 , 1 1 i . . . A worlds fair mmmitteo has Uen artotnt- twl wat ,! at cimcd Uf the vti j fartUr ejth rvl 1 ii.i . ' ' IVK.,;!,n-r.,l. U. , X ';'717-''''t'v.nJ.hi,commi.. U,, ,!,. 1... ,,. , . . X ,r t"Z V wi ir" ,ht1"ti0" Jiu'.J fill, tia Tt, W-.HiiilJUMll,r(