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Show AMONG THE RAILROADS. Landslide on the Union Pacific Cattle Shipments Other News. The base of the south side of North Table mountain at Golden, Colorado, is gradually moving downward towards Clear creek, and it is not only causing much uneasiness among those living on the slope, but is playing play-ing havoc with the railroad tracks there. For the past two weeks the mass has been sinking one foot and the sliding one foot a day, which causes the Union Pacific Railway company to keep a gang of men on hand all the time raising the track and keeping it in line with the balance of the track on either side of the mountain. Why the base of the mountain is moving is a mystery and provokes pro-vokes much curiosity. The upper portion is crossed by a ditch, and Division Engineer Ashton is of the opinion that the water seeping through acts on the soapstone and is gradually loosening the foothold of the mass of earth and rock. A Single Track Road. The Single Track Saddle Truck Railroad company incorporated at Portland a few months since, have the peculiar locomotive required for their road about completed and will be enabled to give their scheme a practical prac-tical test within thirty days. The roadbed is of stout timber supported on A-shaped braces, like a long low roof. The driving-wheel driving-wheel is in the center of the locomotive and is of large size, and, as it practically supports sup-ports the whole engine, has great traction, and the inventor expects to attain a speed of 100 miles an hour. The locomotive fits over the track like a saddle, and on each side are the boiler and machinery to balance. Guide trucks run along the side of the A frames, and wheels on each side, 6et at an angle, rest on these to prevent the locomotive from tipping when at rest. It is expected when in motion the momentum will preserve the equilibrium. equilib-rium. A section of road is to be built in the suburbs for a trial trip. Rates to Salt Lake. S. H. Babcock of the Rio Grande Western says. "There would have probably been a meeting at Salt Lake City," on the 21st to consider the result of the tariff rates to go into effect east of Denver on tho 22d on the Rock Island and Burlington, which I understand under-stand has also been met by the other roads. But this meeting will not be held until after the return of Mr. Monroe, who was suddenly called east, owing to the death of his mother. It remains to be seen what effect the new tariff will have on the rates to Salt Lake and Cattle Shipments. The Union Pacifie is handling mora stock in Wyoming this season than usual. Saturday Satur-day there were twenty-four carloads of beeves from Evanston. Twenty-three carloads-' of horses and cattle have gone through Laramie the last week from Rawlins alone. Railroad Notes. A carload of fence posts burned Sunday at Thornton. . Two hundred people from Park City are at Garfield on the P. O. 8. of A. excursion. It is reported that several more crews will be put on the Mountain division the seventh the 20th inst. C. W. Lyman and wife, H. B. Lyman, A. L. Lyman, Miss Allie Hooper, Miss Annv Silver and Miss Mamie Silver go to Alaska tomorrow. Sixteen miles of new rails have been laid on the sixth district of the Union Pacific this season. It w as planned early in the season to lay forty-two miles this year, but it is now expected that they will lay forty -eight. Applications are being made daily for accommodations ac-commodations to the exenrsion to Shoshone Falls. Those intending going had best file theirs early and avoid the rush, as Chief Clerk Spencer is anxious . to complete arrangements ar-rangements us soon as possible. - |