The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 58, 7 March 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1872.

The Snow Blockade. — The following from the JVews of the World explains the circumstances attending the detention of the San Francisco mail: — Owing to the unfortunate and unprecedented "snow blockade " on the Union Pacific railroad, we have not been able to include selections from the late English papers. Our telegraphic news is, however, as full as ever, and will bo found both important and interesting. The snow blockade has taught the Union Pacific Railroad Company the necessity for " snow sheds " and fences in exposed places, as it long ago did on the Central Pacific Railroad (California and Nevada and Utah end of the trans-conti-nental route), and no detentions need be feared for the future. On the Central Pacific railroad there has been no detention or stoppage during this winter except of the most trifling nature from floods. The amount of line blocked by snow does not exceed one hundred miles (and that only in portions) of the entire distance, thirtytwo hundred miles from San Francisco to New York. The road having been kept open the two entire previous winters, the company was not prepared for the events of this one. The weather has been exceptionally severe over the whole country, and, even in the ordinary course of events, such storms would nofc probably recur in ten years. Of course, for the interests of the company, as well as for those of the travelling public, the line will be cleared as speediiy as possible. la San Francisco we look to that being completely accomplished inside of a week.