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Show ALT A CUT OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD . All trafiic ' communication with the mines nt Alta has becn'cut off by an immense snowslide in Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyon. ' The managers of both the Columbus Consolidated Mining company and the Continental Mines &. Smelting corporation have written letters let-ters to the Board of County Commissioners Commis-sioners asking for assistance in opening the rortd and say that unless something is done immediately about 100 mlnerB will be thrown out of employment, which would necessarily nffect from 100 to 500 people. The slide occurred about two miles" north of Wasatch- The snow Is plied up from four to thirty feet In the gulch and the slide Is more than 100 yards wide. General Manager Crowther says thot unless the road is cleaned out traffic traf-fic Into Alta will be blocked for six or eight weeks. He says that forts" teams hauling ore to Sandy have been put out of commission and that the employment employ-ment of 100 miners depends upon keeping keep-ing the road open. The letter concludes by saying that Alta bids fuir to closely approach the activity of its busiest pe-I pe-I rloda this coming season. It is therefore there-fore very essential that the road be opened up. The snow is unusually deep In the mountains this year and besides the olide in Little Cottonwood there Is also another in Big Cottonwood canyon. The latter Is larger than tho one near Wasatch Wa-satch and is the first that has occurred in Big Cottonwood for many years. County Commissioner W. W. Wilson visited the scene of the slide In Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood and says the amount of snow piled up there is simply astonishing. The County Commissioners will make an appropriation toward aiding In clearing the county road there and committee will be delegated to make an Investigation and report on the slldo in Little Cottonwood canyon. |