Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1910 — A Long Winter. [ARTICLE]

A Long Winter.

If the testimony of one wno knows; Is to be credited, life In some of the high mining camps in the RockyMountains is about as hard as at the top of the earth. Says the New York Evening Post: Marshall Basin is a mining region; twelve thousand feet above the sea—a. • huge, bowl-shaped area formed by erosion and disintegration at the summit of a mountain peak, where the snowdrifts and packs and remains the year round. A miner from the place wasa witness in a suit over a title. “How long have you lived In Marshall Basin?” asked the lawyer coaducting the examination. “The best part of one winter,” was the reply. The lawyer, who was an old-timer,, would have been satisfied with the answer, but the judge, who was a “tm* derfoot,” broke in testily; “That’s very indefinite. What do you mean by the best part of one winter?” i _ “Well,” replied the witness, slowly and thoughtfully, “I’ve been up there? about eleven months.”