Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-03-02 | Page 37 | Alta Tram is Cast down, but Teams in Camp

w wALTA ALTA TRAM IS CAST DOWN BUT TEAMS IN CAMP CAMPOre Ore Haulers Cut Road Through Recent Heavy Snowstorms to Mines fines Nine towers of or the Utah Michigan Utah Mining company's tramway In Little Cotton Cottonwood wood canyon vero were cut awa away on Thursday afternoon and carried down the north side of oC the canyon Into the tho ditch Judge Norman AV Yo Haire general general gen gen- eral manager of the company said yesterday yesterday yes yes- es t ho he figured from imperfect information received from roil there that It Inn may require six weeks before tho the tram will be he operating C regularly a again aln However cr the teamsters yesterday were cutting a road up ua to lo the Utah Michigan Utah an-Utah and Alta Consolidated ore bins In the cast calt end of or camp It Is expected that sled hauling of or ore will be bc started within a Cc few days lIas possibly toda today or orto to tomorrow m o Tho Tilo slide which took out Ut the thc towers occurred about aboul half hair a mile cast eust of Tanners Flat Ilat or at WillIe Pine f Flat lat Here a great g avalanche a rushed down carrying ca everything c before It The hard ice ICO and snow swept Into the creek creel damming up UI the thc water vater Some of or the thc water was checked up at atthe atthe the tho other side of f C the thc and this deprived ed th the Wasatch mines of ot Its power to operate the plant This cutoff cut cut- of off tho the electrical ener energy y from all the mines of or Alta But nut the tho stop is expected expect expect- ed only for tor a day a or two In fact act the I I power ma may have ha been switched on yesterday yesterday yes yes- afternoon n. or possibly by to toda today to- to da day is the opinion of oC an Alta AHa operator operator operator opera opera- tor In close touch with the thc situation The Tho ore teams have ha been cutting out tho the road up ua as far as tho the South He Hecla la Wasatch Mines and Columbus all during the past week eck while the big I j sno snowstorms were en tn hn and It was reported reported re- re I ported yesterday that the teams were loading at South Hecla The rIle teams had nearly reached there Friday and were expected to get through h In time limo to load back