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Show Much trouble was experienced last win-tor win-tor on account of the landslides in this pawn, which kejit the line blockaded most of the time, mid to obviate this difficulty thin work whs designed. It consists of a series of terraces, four in number, rising up from the track where the cut is deepest, excavated so as to break the force of the water coining coin-ing down the b1oc, and carrying it off laterally by a seri'-s of wooden conduits and surface drains. These terraces range from S00 to BOO feet in length, measuring in the aggregate 1,800 feet, ami are all roofed over. An army of men and team have been ut work for home months. Roofing a Mountain Cut. A letter from Los Angeles, Cal., eayi tha a unique piece of engineering in m-ing m-ing completed on the Saute Fe line, through the Cajon pas, that will take rank with the famous Tehachapi loop on the Southern Pacific. It amounts in ef-tect ef-tect tij roofing over the mountain. |