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Show II BINGHAM FOOD ! SUSPENDS TRAFFIC i J ' ' Bingham Canyon creek and all of Its I ' tributaries exceeded high -water mark by several degrees Tuesday afternodh. ' In addition to the rainfall the streams If'! were further swollen by melting snow, ' , ) which was hastened by the warm rain. ,1 ' j The canyon had a decidedly flooded ap-j ap-j i pearance, but as the mines are worked ' , by tunnel and not by shaft so that the ' ' work contributes to their drainage, no !l j damage was done to the workings. The Copper Belt -railway was a sufferer to 1 , the extent of land slides that covered the track Jn two pace to a depth that ! traffic was abandoned. The -work of clearing the track is expected to be f, ' ij completed todapr. The suspension of ' operations by the Copper Belt road j, i means the stopping of shipments from i I the mines of the Boston Con., the Yam-I Yam-I pa, the Ohio and the Utah Copper companies. com-panies. , |