more old news

[Matt Hutson]

from today's Summit Daily News:
"With regular trains still not into Como, very few of the luxuries — such as eggs, butter, ham, etc. — have come into Breckenridge since the sleigh road was opened. One local butcher said he expects to have a stock of fish and oysters in by next week — luxuries not seen here for some time after a snow blockade of seven weeks. Mail contractors Shaw and Utz have been bringing in the accumulated mail from Como and the average Breckenridge citizen is now about as “long” on newspapers as they were short during the blockade.

The rotary plow made it into Como a 4 p.m. on March 16, having battled the drifts between there and Grant since March 11. After the plow arrived, an attempt was made to run a passenger train to Como, but the track was in too poor a shape to make it out. Agent Gilbert of the Colorado & Southern Railway expects the rotary to make it over Boreas Pass on the High Line in the near future and the area could see a train in next week."

— From the March 18, 1899, edition of the Summit County Journal

Cheers,
Matt

[Kurt Maechner]

Wonder what it must have been like to be on that passenger train only to have the conductor say, "Sorry, folks. We'll have to go back."

Thanks for sharing, Matt.