MW locomotive the red Bed butte quarries an artificial Harth earthquake quake the newl engine which the fort douglas road received a lew days ago la Is a machine of immense power and la Is constructed on new prin principles ciplis the boiler and tender rest real upon four our r pair ll irsol driving wheels which are 28 inches a hesla la diameter A flexible OUR haft with knuckle joints extends alon along gibe the right hand band side of the engine and tender attached Ati ached to the axle of each pair of drive wheels is a beveled pinion into which a corresponding pinion on the shaft is reared geared tae fuere re are three vertical cylinders cy and imp tons which turn the and which are so RO arranged that a dead centre beutte cannot be struck the engine inglee and tender when loaded with coal 1 I and water 56 pounds I 1 and so an every pound of atas this 36 weight riots rests upon the drive wheels they CUNG TO THE TRACK in a manner to impart greut breut pulling and climbing power to the engine this locomotive was built at lima ohio and is adapted for heavy grades rather than great speed though it travels fast for the traffic on this road this engine is guaranteed to haul 1722 tons on a dead level six wiles biles per hour ho ar on a test yesterday it took four heavily loaded cars and a c coach h up a grade ade of feet to the mile 4 which is considered extraordinary the track up red butte cation has that grade lor for a distance of two miles yet the new engine moved steadily along up to the quarry with this heavy train without a wheel slipping which was pronounced by bv several officers of the fort douglas Douglad road and other gentlemen on the train as witnesses of the test to be an extraordinary ord nary performance T the he engine is fir fluted ted with a steam brake of such pow power t that t she he can be stopped within a fr few w f feet beets even when going at a rapid speed AT THE QUARRIES in red bratte canon preparations are nearly completed for setting off the largest blast ever attempted in toe west on the south side of the canon callon near he end of the track rises the dome of a mountain of sandstone A tunnel has bas been drives driven into the side of this mountain moui raia a distance ot sever lover feet to a point ehica is about feet below the apex cross tunnels have b on ea driven and chambers excavated in which about twenty tons of powder will be placed toe the design is to explode lode this vast q quantity u a a t t y of powder gy by electricity and ter t thereby e i y throw the upper part jart ot at this sandstone ad er to e peak into the canon below alongside the track an enormous mass of building stone will thus be thrown where it cin can be easily loaded on oa toe cars it is estimated that the blast will throw down into the cation canon over tons of rock after it is fired cranes and other apparatus will be constructed by chirm to load the rock on the cars cheaply a aaa expeditiously last ale week jk a blast was fired which moved about tons of rock which is being rapidly transported to town A device for saving time labor and ex es ense has recently been adopted aarts carts are load loaded d with rock at the quarries and are then rolled into the ears and brought to town horses than draw the carts wherever the rock IS if wanted the rock industry of red botte canon is rapidly assuming aasbo asbo ming immense proportions