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Show iff -i -fj ' ,v r xv v - s J.S- 1 . ! Une oi prize contenders in 8th annual Ogden Livestock Show. January 4 to 8. WEATHER HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS in CANADA; AND SNOW 22 FT. DEEP (Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Barton, Jr. . of Alberta, Ca-ida are visitiing in Mt. Pleasant, and while talking to 'uis the j other day gave us the followiDg clip-j clip-j ping from a Canada paper which tells I of the weather in Canada) j ! The climate of Southern Alberta is ; a study in contracts. Thia fact was graphically illustrat-' illustrat-' ed this morning wrhen a Harold re-' re-' porter in his rounds encountered Thoimas Mc Nailib, president of the ; Old Timers association, an "85" man. "We've had a lovely winter, Mr. ' McNalbb," the newspaperman volun-j volun-j Leered, giving the Old. Timers' chief I a lead. He looked up from a grist of cheques he was s'lm'ng for Secretarj James Rose, and Said: "Yes, but I've seen milder ones." And the eyes of the pioneer railway builder seemed to look -back over tie span of years with all their .marvel-. ''ous changes " rememiber New Year's Day in 1S85. It held bright and sunshiny, We held a big dance at night. It was some dance, too. There were six white ladies and a number of , Indian squaws half -breeds and quar-: ter breeds in attendance. We had printed programs rattling music and plenty of refreshments. It got a b!t cold during the ball, 'but it didn't last I 'long. On Febrlulary 14 of that year 1 remember picking flowers on the river bottom. "But we didn't pick flowers in February, 1886. That was the year of the greatest snow storm I have seen in these parts. The mercury: went down to G5 below Zero, and I remember Mr. A. T. Gait, advising me to take in the thermometer hanging hang-ing on the cook car door so that the men would not become disgruntled. Snow Was 22 Feet Deep "I was then supcrri jtendent for Mr. Gait on the old Northwest Co-al and Navigation company's narrow gauge road from Lethbridge to Dunmore. Ti'.p.i' winter in the big February s'ovin, the -snow was 2 2 feet on the ra'lroad track and we were 28 days goi'ng to Dunmore and back, a distance dis-tance of 109 miles. We had four engine-j and a crew of 50 mien work-'t; work-'t; : almost constantly to open, up the line That experience was one .of the 'vv'iig ones in ray railroading career in this country. Mr. Ga'.t planned to meet his father in New York, but was unable to. get through. Communiicat-tion Communiicat-tion was difficult as the only stations on the road were at Woodpecker. Grassy Lake and Winnifred. It was hard to keep the men working and still harder to feed them for provisions provis-ions were scarce and difficult to secure: sec-ure: The cattle was skin and bones and thousands perished on the open ranee." Picking flowers on the 14th. of February one year. Digging a train out of 2 2 feet ot snow with mercury around 50 below 'he next. Yes our climate is fickle, but it ;hov."d be added that never has the country witnessed such a storm as that in "86. |
