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Show The Ericsson Snow-Plow. At last this plow, which has been built lour years, h-j Ui .i i.UI and fully sustained the reputation which years of trial in Sweden had won for it. It will bo remembered that last winter, during the long blockade on the U. P. H. li, this plow was started from this city, a', the request of the U. P. officials, offi-cials, with a view to teat it oo that line, but through some mi-underslandiog, ar in cjns.'fi'ience of information that the roud was practically open, it was i not u-ed. On the blockade of the ; Utah Southern, superintendent Sharp took the plow diwa to the impacted snow, where it bohaved .p!en-diily, .p!en-diily, cutiiutf a road ten feet wile through eight feet of snow, and clearing ibelf as it worked. But in consequence of having lain so long idle, homo of tho bolus, it is believed, be-lieved, had became loosened, which with the powerful force used io propulsion propul-sion twisted a portion of the plow and rendered it unserviceable until it could I be repaired and put in proper working . order again. This, however, does not militate in any manner against the value of the invention, nor the efficiency of the plow, which is evidently capable of keeping any road clear through snow from twelve to fifteen feet deep; or deeper by backing and emptying. Wc congratulate Mr. Ericsson on the success which his invention baa thus gained in this country, as well as that it gained long since in Northern Europe. |