Show HAS NO BOTTOM Spot in the lake Which Engineers Are Trying to till Pill Special to The Herald Ogden Nov 18 The engineering de tie department department as well as the operating g de department department department of the Southern Pacific Is having considerable difficulty over a l L stretch of track opposite the mouth month of q Bear river At this point the Great Salt lake appears to be bottomless and the theory is advanced that the outlet of the lake ake has been discovered in the hole over which h the tracks have been constructed For this short distance the track dann t be e made firm and sev several several several eral trains have already plowed Into the mud owing to the spreading of rails rans and the settling of the tracks The troublesome ome spot pot is directly op the mouth of the river which for unknown ages has deposited the soft s tt V slit silt washed wash d down own from Cache and Bear T River valleys into the th lake When the t e work was in process the tho piles could be driven d en out put of f sight Ig t by light blows of the th driver Four piles one on top of the other were driven into the bottom until seventysix feet fe t of piles were In place f ce Over these thes piles Diles the temporary track was laid and the rock was as dumped In from r m the ballast cars eats until it came up to the top of the pit pil ing This seemed see ed to make things se cure ure for a time but trouble has fol foI owed The Ti ft bottom will wUl scarcely bear the weight W I of the rock and washes QU causing the tracks to settle Several S erat cars have ha dropped to the level 01 Qi o the mud as a result the last accident c ment df of f the kind happening Friday FIday night The Th condition is not serious for if need be bc the entire span can be bridged I but the probabilities are are re that the con dumping of rock Into the hole I will find a firm bed I |