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This thought occurred to Acting Superintendent A. B. Everts of the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California. But 50 gallons of water weigh 416 Ib. Hauling that much weight, plus a pump and its power unit, over a mountain trail is slow work. Gasoline pumps are convenient but heavy. Forester Everts hit upon a source of power that is light and cheap as well as convenient. He tried frozen carbon dioxide...
...minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract the boy from his long enough for them to get the gold. This fails too when the string of hurdy-gurdies cascade down a mountain trail in a careening dance. The robbers are nabbed, the boy gets the gold...
...Trail Skiing...
Mount Mansfield, at Stowe, Vt., has twelve inches of solidly frozen snow which has remained from the storms of early January. The conditions are too icy to permit any trail skiing and the Notch Road is marked by bare wind-swept spaces on the Stowe side. The only good skiing is to be found on the Jeffersonville side for a distance of two miles down from Smuggler's Notch. Woodstock, in Vermont, reports fair skiing on the open slopes...
...morning last week Gordon Morrow, 19, was hunting rabbits on a snow covered trail of cut-over land 50 miles north of Tacoma. Following rabbit tracks he cut through an alder thicket, stumbled over something. It was the naked body of a small boy, with head bashed in, lying stiff and frozen in the snow. Hunter Morrow rushed home, told his father. The local sheriff and his deputies came, examined the body lying 200 feet from a highway, studied fresh tire tracks and footprints, decided the child had been murdered elsewhere and been dumped there the night before...