THE SNOW BLOCKADE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1163, 20 April 1872, Page 2

THE SNOW BLOCKADE.

The snow blockade resulting from storms of exceptional ' severity, which impeded travel on the Union Pacific portion of the trans-continental route, has jcbme to an end, and New York and San-Fran-cisco are now no more days apart than they were before Our mails are coming through ,on regular time, t and our business men or tourists are making their overland trips with the full knowledge that they will arrive at their destinations according to the railroad time-tables. It will be interesting to oar readers to learn the .extent of the snow blockade which for a time; impeded tlje ponnection between' our American continent. ..One - hundred and t seventy miles out- of 3200 . ■ (the- distance between San Francisco iind New York) was ; the * total amount over which King Frost for a time held sway, and although tihat space^ of 'the 1 <line wap blocked it was only at intervals. Probably not over twenty or thirty miles of the one hundred aud seventy was for the time impassable ;the rest was' easily cleared by the snow ploughs. No detent

turn need be feared in the future, as the company, for its own interests, has taken care to erect snow fences in all exposed places, and has a powerful rival looming in the not-very-aistant future, in the Southern Pacific Railroad, which wiH pass through less inhospitable regions. It is to be remarked that our end of the line, the Central Pacific (California, Nevada and Utah) has been kept clear throughout the winter. Inde3d, it is universally remarked by travellers that the Central Pacific Railroad is the most fsolidly built, best equipped and provided line of any on the continent. ,