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Show ORE TlllIGS mm TRACKS Railroads Ask Court for Relief From Conditions at Magna Plant. A new feature of the immensity of the operations of the Utah Copper company has forced recognition, this time by the officials of the Salt Lake & Los Angeles and Western Pacific Railroad companies. The tailings from the company's concentration concen-tration mills at Magna threaten to bury the tracks of the two roads. As a result, condemnation proceed! njrs wore instituted veeterdav by both companies com-panies in the Third district court against land owned by J. U Wilson, that the roadbeds mav be chanced. The rights of way desired that the roaxis may be moved to a position of safety south of their present course to the higher ground of the mountainside, upon which the concentration con-centration mills are located, involve the crossing of Wilson's land. In both actions the request is made of the court that the Land be condemned and a price fixed by the court, that the j rallroadmpanies may have relief from thjTdition that threatens. It is set l that but for the change of the roadbeds it will be necessary for the ; mining' company to build a higrh retain- j Inff wall along the tracks on each side, possibly to a height of ninety feet, to hold back the accumulating' tailings washed down continuously by the waste water from the mills. This condition, the plaintiffs point out, would be very undesirable, even if safe, and -In the Interest of safety and the service ser-vice of the roads to the public the court is asked to make a provision that will obviate the necessity of such impracticable impracti-cable means of solving a problem that is becoming daily more acute. |