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Show Siowslides. Little Cottonwood, tho last two or three days, has been the scene of lively tinier in the matter ofsnow-slides;at ofsnow-slides;at almost every point where the avalanches ever occur, there was one or more on Saturday or Sunday tho result of last week's heavy falls of snow. What is said to be the largest slide that ever came down at that frightful place Superior gulch descended Ihero on Sunday. It completely filled the bed of the canon, and the snow was forced for a long di3tance up the side of the opposite mountain. moun-tain. On tho eamo day a large body of snow broke loose noar tho Stoker mine and descending, flew past tho Emma mino on the cast and following fol-lowing the track of tho terribly fatal slide of last winter, when the Carey family was killed, rushed into the upper part of Alta city and then settled. Fortunately the former catastrophe- had driven the people from that portion of the town, hence Sunday's snowshde found no Whcu our . informant left Alta a slide was momentarily oxpocted to come down near the Vallejo works, works, where ouo descended a few weeks ago. So far as could be learned last evening, even-ing, no one had been caught in tho receut slides. P.issengors came down from Alta on raw hides for sledges, as it was impossible to bring Blcigus through, there beiug no road broken. |