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The Mail has got to get through! Here we see Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 463 is bucking snow with her snowplow pushes through a snow slide by the Las Animas River south of Silverton, Colorado. March 31, 1949Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library, DPLDC. Photo: Robert 'Uncle Bob' William Richardson

The Mail has got to get through! Here we see Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 463 is bucking snow with her snowplow pushes through a snow slide by the Las Animas River south of Silverton, Colorado. March 31, 1949Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library, DPLDC. Photo: Robert 'Uncle Bob' William Richardson

Kicksledders kick their way up Blair Street in the Kicksled Rodeo sponsored by the Colorado Mountain Club in 2011. Photo by David Emory for the Silverton Standard & the Miner

Kicksledders kick their way up Blair Street in the Kicksled Rodeo sponsored by the Colorado Mountain Club in 2011. Photo by David Emory for the Silverton Standard & the Miner

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The Idaho slide came down on Monday night and ran across the park to a level with Blair street. It took out one telegraph pole and covered up the Y with about ten feet of snow, This is the furthest it has run since 1879.A man and a four horse team and wagon were covered up by a small slide near the Congress mine last week, but were all dug out safely.RED MOUNTAIN RUNS SHOR...

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