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Show LITTLE COTTONWOOD." Slieddiiig the Tramway The Big Cottonwood Lakes Re-litfiuus Re-litfiuus Services for the Alta-ites. Alta-ites. Special Correipondenoe.' - Alt a City, August 16, 1S7G . The work of shedding the tramway has now been commenced. Superiu-tendeut Superiu-tendeut Goss is having it done in such a manner that there will be no obstacle iu the way of working the road in winter as well as in summer. Some think the shedB will not be available against the heavy snow slides, but Mr. Guss thinks diflerently, and if his opinion should prove to be correct. Ihe peoplo ol Aha will re joice that they will be able to ride up aud down the canon through snow times, without being tortured -vith the continual dread of being carried away by a snowslide. The Big Cottonwood lakes are attracting at-tracting eome attention this summer. sum-mer. The trout fishing is very good. To those who intend visiting there from Salt Lake, I would suggest that they come om Alta. A pleasaut aud speedy way of getting there is by rail here and by saiidle horses to the lako. Pirlin always has a good Block ot hories on hand. Divine services are now held every Sunday. A clergyman of the Presbyterian Presby-terian and one of ihe Episcopal church preach on alternate Sundays. A Sunday Sun-day school has also been organized, and under the Biiperiutendency of Mrs. Davis is flourishing. There has been a general reduction reduc-tion of miners' wages on account of the depreciation in tho price of ore. The tramway is shipping from eighty to one hundred tons per day. Garry Owens and Sbakspearo have both left us. Notwithstanding Garry's assertion that ho never stole five cents, he was caught in the act of appropriating ap-propriating to his own use what be longed to another, and fjr that reason he accepted the invitation of Judge Edos to sojourn a month in the county jail. Shakspeare slighted Alta by preferring to have his irregularities irregu-larities fixed by a Salt Lake justice. Sammy. |