The granite trough arrived in Des Moines via train in the early 1900s as part of a National Humane Society effort to make sure horses had water. “It’s from a time there were horses up and down ...
(Courtesy of This Old Horse Inc.) When a line used to transport water to the troughs at a horse sanctuary in Hugo froze this week, firefighters at the Hugo Fire Department came to the rescue.
A crew responded with a tanker truck and filled the troughs and every available bucket in the horse barn with an estimated 200 gallons of water, he said. “They called and asked if it was a ...