LIFE IN DAKOTA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1798, 24 March 1888, Page 4

LIFE IN DAKOTA

A Scottish lady who left Edinburgh for Dakota m December, writing to her relatives on New Year's Day, Bayß.*— fl I arrived here on the 20 ,h m a awful bltzztrd. which began shortly after we left Milwaukee. The cold was bo intense that the carriage windows were fr< zan ; over, and nothing could be seen of the j surrounding country. At one station I got out to get some b»">t coffee ; but cold and hungry as 1 was, I preferred to suffer theße rather than face the wind for a couple of hundred yards. We landed here In such a storm as you oould not picture to yourself, try ever so bard. The ntxt train that came was (mowed op, so It is a good thing we got m m tine. It has been a constant blizzird ever since.. We are snowed up wltb. six feet of snow m front and eight at the back, and m ■ome places ten. How would yon lik.9 that ? We have to make a hole through the heap eaoh time wa want to get oat The roof *nd walls of our bedroom are covered every morning with a sheet of ice and I sweep two dustpanfuls of snow off toe walls of eaoh rcom every morning. When I get op m the morning my feet stick to the quilt lying above ve — m fee everything ons touches sticks to one's hands. The waterpiil freezes solid. Jnss farcy having half an ox In the house with* oat being able to get a bit of it ; it cannot be oat even with a daw. It is simply a •olid pieoe of foe. The summer kitchen had four feet of anow this morning which bad blown through the orevloes. It is so fine that it sifts through everything.