A miracle in hotel building : being the story of the building of the new Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park / by Raftery . Yellowstone National Park in Winter •55 -85 -95. An Order for Nails. ARLY in January, 1911, in the heart of the RockyMountains, eight thousand feet above the sea andnearly forty miles from the nearest railroad, I sawthe first order prepared on the range of one of thelargest and most perfect hotel-kitchens in the order was for nails, hot nails, nails by thequart and by the gallon, piping hot, big and little,brads and spikes, ten-pennies and shingle-nails, whilef
A miracle in hotel building : being the story of the building of the new Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park / by Raftery . Yellowstone National Park in Winter •55 -85 -95. An Order for Nails. ARLY in January, 1911, in the heart of the RockyMountains, eight thousand feet above the sea andnearly forty miles from the nearest railroad, I sawthe first order prepared on the range of one of thelargest and most perfect hotel-kitchens in the order was for nails, hot nails, nails by thequart and by the gallon, piping hot, big and little,brads and spikes, ten-pennies and shingle-nails, whilefrom the walls, inside and out, from the sub-cellar below, and from theacres of gaping roof, came the tattoo of the hammers of a hundredcarpenters clamoring for nails, hot nails and plenty of em. Through a blinding blizzard, with the wind blowing a horizontalgale of thirty miles an hour, over thirty-seven miles of almost track-less snow, four feet on thelevel, through mountain gor-ges, where the drift laypacked from ten to twentyfeet, across frozen creeks andrivers, I had come in a horse-drawn sleigh to the brink ofthe Grand Canyon of theYellowstone River in the Na-ti
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