New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . ith them, sometimes a day and a night, and trust to getting themhome when the storm is over Not far from Colorado Springs is a gulchcalled the Big Corral, in which more than one thousand sheep were lost ayear or two ago, having followed each other up to the brink, and fallenover into the deep snow. Nor did the IMcxican herder ever return to tellthe tale, for he shared their fate. It is with the snow-storm, indeed, thatthe dark side of the Colorado shepherds life is associated, and the greattempest of the spring of 1878 left a sorrowful record behind it. It
New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . ith them, sometimes a day and a night, and trust to getting themhome when the storm is over Not far from Colorado Springs is a gulchcalled the Big Corral, in which more than one thousand sheep were lost ayear or two ago, having followed each other up to the brink, and fallenover into the deep snow. Nor did the IMcxican herder ever return to tellthe tale, for he shared their fate. It is with the snow-storm, indeed, thatthe dark side of the Colorado shepherds life is associated, and the greattempest of the spring of 1878 left a sorrowful record behind it. It mustbe mentiuiicd that sheds are an innovation, that some ranches have none C<2 Ni:\V AND TlIK .SANTA IH cvfii iinw, aiiil tli:it IxTorc tlicy wci-f Idiilt tlu; slifc]) wvw, exposed, evenin till (-(iriMls, to tilt fury of the elements. J*r/ cDiiir(i,\X .should be Kuidthat no snch stoiin as that of IVfareh, 187^, h;is Ijeen known .sinec thereweri- any slut]) in this part of the conntry. On this occasion thousands. THE TRACiKDY OF THE lilG COltUAL. and thousands of sheep perished. The snow was eleven feet dcej) in thecorrals, and slieep were dug out alive after being buried for two and eventhree weeks! Their vitality seems very great, and many perish, not fromtlie pressure of the snow, but from suffocation caused by others fallingor crowding upon them. It is asserted that they sometimes, while stillburied, Avork their way down to the grass, and feed thereon. But ourshepherd has taken care to have i)lenty of sheds, and he knows, too, that by EL PASO COUXTV AND COLORADO SPRINGS. 63 the doctrine of chances he need not count on such a storm more than oncein ten years, so lie faces the winter with a stout lieart. Whenever it ispossible to send the sheep out, the herder takes them, despite the weather;but when that is impossible or indiscreet, they are fed at home. In May comes lambing, and the extra hands are busily occupied intaking care of the young lam1)s Wit
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