Source: Weekly Mining
Saturday, March 8,

p- 8e.1

1890

“ARCHES OF EL TING snow. a

 

Mining Journal Reporter Bides ia
South Shore Line's Big Rotary
t Snow Plow. ~

 

Cutting duveags Ten Foot Drifis-Snow
Thrown Away Clear of Right of Wav.
Ete Wha led bemnerrenrmmcrent

 

 

 

   

conree adh Bide om the. Rotary. .. sei
-o' -- Monday. moral:

ager’s avoretary,and C. D. Cole, the
photogrgpher of the expedition. Tho
work abead of tha rotary was the clear.
Ing of tho blockaded sido tracks’ be-

tween Marquette and Negaunce and
of the ¥ and a portion of the M&W,

la Dille M. Meehan. traroting |
Shoreveudy waste |

general ‘charge of the expedition whilé
tha” pilot,” Aller’“Cowden=a~raltroad
veteran of nineteen upper pontsaula
winters and who remembers bow they
ued to put the rolling stock In the
sheda_and suspend ‘operations until
spring on the M. H, & O. after the road
was once-fully covered by- a~bliseard;:
—tngether with Jobo Stull and Geo. La
Liberty, the regular engineer aad firo-'

 

of those on board,
‘WR TUPHTAITNA by eng

The motive power

 

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Journal, Marquette, MI

At Grand View the famous blockade
Ufter found her first job, and in ten
minutes had cleared a siding whiclr
would have occupied the attention of a
hundred shoyelers fora full day... Cha)
}onow-wad not—siniply ehoved- loone

sido, as isdone by thehuge wing plow
known to the ae on rie lias eae
Gloty," but was: fired bodily fromthe
right of way, even whero embankments
Intervened. ‘The flying snow formed a
ats eyes Jn the

ig knives
a sil sane the drifts so apy that it
kept the photographer and his numer-
ove basins on Ube Tai To Koopa
enough ahead to make “exposures,”
The whole siding was covered from
three to six fect in depth.
~The next plécs OF Wack needitiz at-
tention was the Bagdad siding, !,6104
feet long. This was cleared as ex-
peditiously as the first, the hood belong
shifted gnd the stream of snow belng
delivered on the other side, But It was
ot Eugle Mills that the big plow had a
chance to show what she was -really
built for. After clearing. aff the ¥ be-
tween the main line and the M. & W.
track the plow was headed dbwo the:
tatter line to clear-aqbout-a quarter of a
j\falle of .track. Here We three daya'l
snowfall of last week had os o founda-
tion the ageumulation of the entire win-
ter, the track not having been in tse
since navigation cluded, Next to thy
raila the snow was packed anid hardened
into ice and altogether it mado as pretty
& test as could be desirud.

 

 
p. 2 Arches of Flying Snow March 8,

  
  
 

The pilot sounded the whistle on the 28 the
rotary, engine 101 snawered the slgoal
and put on steam, jangle went tho bell |
signal from the rotary’s pilot to her en- |

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nike inghiacers,. ‘bad limba
onto the deck of the rotary where they
could watch the furious torrent of snow
as {trushed upward Into the alr; ne
others siood beside Pilot Cowden atid
watched the fun through the heavy
glass windows on either sido of the
gines of the rotary until the roar of the
whirling kulves ood the greatepursaad.
cogs by whieh they are driven, was
|deafening, Fifty feet, one- hundred
+ foet,-one-hundred-and.

the snow and Ice, the heavy stuff from
the bottom golng the farthest, svme-
times seventy or olghty feet the other
side of tho right-of-way fence. It was a
‘grand sight to watcb that hugo arch of
isolid snow extending from the Yrotary's
hood upward-thirty—or- forty feet and
then commencing its downward aiahd
toward the adjoining tlelds,

 
 
   

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1890

Finally” the plow” was stopped]
and run~ back a ~Nttle “distance:

Mr. Cole again assumed command,
A good scene it was for a photographer,
too; a canal cut ln snow with sides and
end as perpendicular and even as brick
walls. Tho p! pher marshalled

them against the solid -foot wall of
snow which formed the end and which
was packed hard onough to resist any
ordinary shovel, Meehan turned hie
most melting smile on the snowy. wall
at bis side, Stull tried to look 9 feet tat!
Uke the end of the cut, Larke posod
gracefully In a corner and the journal:
Ist sat on a block of snow like patience
on @ monument, smillog at the thonght
ofthe approaching dinner hour. . This
Uttle formality attended to the proces-
sion moved on and the rotary speedily
ate ber way out to the crossing which
had been selected as the end of her
Eagle Mills contract. . The snow and
ice through which she bad cut on this
plece of track was between 0 and 1!
feet-deep on the level; when she h.
left it any kind ofa train could have
been backed in there easily. At Eagle
Mills station Frank Kockwell met the
‘outfit with his hlandest smile and en
outatretched box of cigars while . Mr,
Langley, also of F. W. Read & Co:; ex:
tended the {reedom af the. towns): Tho.
plow.then went on to Negaunee-and
lifted between 8 and-10 fect of snow off
trom the mai tr’ ghaetiatt mill mine.
The unt that as