Show Altas Attitude The snow is still very deep in the upper cart of Little Cottonwood and Alta lacks abut eight feet ot being uncovered from its winter drifts But there is a prospect that active work will begin in a few weeks The City Rock Vallejo Prince of Wale VictorIa Imperial and Peruvian Hill people have been doing more or less work all winter some of them getting out ore and some doing dead work preparatory to the seasons operation Altas great drawback seems to be a lack of transportation The tramway is generally out of order the greater part of the year but its existence deters uaulers who would otherwise bs at work there from keeping the roads in condition and from making satisfactory arrangements for bring ing down the ores Many of the miners are of opinion that in this respect the tramway from Wasatch to Alta is a positive detriment to i the carn pIt p-It stands to reason that at all seasons it will be easier to keep a road open that can be used either by wagons or by sleds than it will to keep a railroad in running order in that trecherous canyon and it is almost beyond question that if the i railroad would entirely abandon their track above Wasatcb hauling contracts could be made with owners of teams which would be much more satisfactory to the miners by givibg them means of I sending down orea at all or nearly all seasons of the year As the railroad rail-road company cannot do this it should abandon the field to those who can Teamsters are fertile in reeourcesand would be pretty likely to invent a plan for getting the ores down to Wasatch as fast as they are taken from the mines no matter what the weather might be like |