StNicholas [serial] . OLYMPIA TO-DAY. SNOW-PLOWS* By George E. A ROTARY PLOW THROWING THE SNOW CLEAR OF THE TRACK. Riding on an engine at the rate of from sixtyto seventy miles an hour is an experience excit-ing enough to convince most of us that naturenever intended that we should be railroad en-gineers; but it is hardly an incident to ridingon a snow-bucking engine when engaged inforcing a tunnel through immense snow-driftswith a wood-faced, steel-shod plow. The mod-ern rotary has made the old snow-plows out-of-date, and robbed the Western blizzard of halfits terrors. The great rotar
StNicholas [serial] . OLYMPIA TO-DAY. SNOW-PLOWS* By George E. A ROTARY PLOW THROWING THE SNOW CLEAR OF THE TRACK. Riding on an engine at the rate of from sixtyto seventy miles an hour is an experience excit-ing enough to convince most of us that naturenever intended that we should be railroad en-gineers; but it is hardly an incident to ridingon a snow-bucking engine when engaged inforcing a tunnel through immense snow-driftswith a wood-faced, steel-shod plow. The mod-ern rotary has made the old snow-plows out-of-date, and robbed the Western blizzard of halfits terrors. The great rotary makes a pictur-esque sight as it cuts through the snow like acheese-paring knife going through its favorite medium, and the wonderful cataract of snowcrystals that it hurls high into the air can belikened only to Niagara when its spray is car-ried like a mist in dense clouds far to one side. When the bright morning sun, crisp and coldas a Klondike winter, comes out after a bliz-zard, and glints upon the sea of frozen snow, itforms a rainbow out of every curved hil
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