Show AlJ lAK AND ALTA AlfA MAY MAr DEt PARI Of-PARI PART f O. O H. H Service to Little Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton- Cotton wood Mines Is Reported Unsatisfactory Company Did Its Best Is Claim is officially announced that I IT the railroad running from the tile I mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon to the smelter at Midvale Midvale Midvale Mid- Mid vale will vill probably be taken back backby backby by the Denver Denyer Rio Grande rail rail- road The road was originally built by the tho Denver Den Rio Grande Grando for Cor the hauling of ot ore from the mines farther up the canyon which was waa formerly hauled by teams and dumped into the cars of oC the tho Denver Rio Grando Grande at the mouth of the canyon for shipment shipment ship ship- ment to the smelters smellers The property has been under lease to J J. J G. G Jacobs and has been heen operating under the name or of the Salt Lake Alta AHa Railroad Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- I road company During the last winter service over the line has boen boon much interrupted owing to the heavy snowfall snow snow- I fall The mining companies In the canyon can can- I yon yen contend that tho the Salt Lake Lako Alta AHa Railroad company Is not nol I properly equipped to handle the sit alt cation I Mr Jacobs manager of or tho the company company com com- pany panr said that ever every effort had been made to keep tho the line lino open and that flint the company had as much or more equipment than it previously previously- had but from the class and amo am amount of ot snow that had bad piled plied and drifted on tho the tracks it would have been unable to I have hare handled it with four times the tho equipment H H U. U Mudge president of or the Dener Denver Den Den- I ver er Rio Grande Railroad company said It flit looks as though we wo would havo have to take the road over as the ser sere I I vice has not been satisfactory i He said that the road had been hampered considerably this winter I Iby by the extremely heavy beavy snowfall and that conditions were something that the present mann management ement could not foresee He lie stated st.-Hed that nothing deft deft- nite had been heen done In rc regard to tho the thoI I matter maUer hut but that action will be bo taken I In tho the near future I |