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Show BIGGER TONNAGE OF ALTA JSEXPEGTED Little Cottonwood Transportation Trans-portation Company Plans Record Hauling. Confident in the belief that the coming com-ing season will be the biggest and best for recent years in the history of the great Alta districts of Big- and Little Cottonwood, the Little Cottonwood Transportation Trans-portation company is planning during the winter to put its-equipment and line 'in condition to handle a greater ' tonnage than ever before. General Manager Shand Smith said yesterday that, in accordance with advices ad-vices received direct from the head office of the company in New York, the three engines that the company com-pany now uses between Wasatch and Alta would be thoroughly overhauled, and that from thirty to forty more six-ton cars would be acquired. The company now has forty of these six-ton cars and with its additional equipment expects to be able to transport ,from 300 to 400 tons of ore every day. As soon as weather' conditions in the spring will permit, grade will be reduced re-duced and curves straightened, said Mr. Smith, thus contributing much to both speed and facility in the hauling of the ore from the numerous mines that the road taps. Despite about two and one-half feet of snow, the line is still' open and a train of ore was brought down from the 8outh Hecla mine on Thanksgiving day. It is, of course, problematical as to how much longer this season the road will be. able to operate; another series of heavy storms in the mountains would probably cause a close down for the winter, although al-though some years trains have been run up to the holidays. But in any event the work of preparing for a heavier than usual tonnage next year will go steadily forward. |