Show THE CENTRAL PACIFIC raf IN WINTER the virginia trespass has the annexed in regard to the progress of this company and its winter experience near the summit the railroad people are are making excellent progress tunnels are working on toward the sunrise and the great shelves in the rocky sides of the mountains are lengthening out as fast as sturdy hands and nitro glycerine can break the way the company has hag k ept close vigil through the snow line the past pas winter and what seemed a calamitous season semon will yet prove to have been a happy one for the railroad company and in that respect an advantage to the people of thi this s coast the advantage derived by the ra railroad 1 broad company from the severity of the past winter is in this the men along the line have been able to watch the course of the wind currents where the heaviest drifts of snow enoi lodge rge what direction they come from what is the particular coil conformation formation of the mountain turning it to that thal particular point whether the current la Is the same in several storms sois so as to furni furnish sh a guide for erecting protections to the track all these things have been carefully watched through the prin principal cipa elpa 1 a and ri d five considerable storms of the past winter I 1 at jl is found found on n sam sll summit of the sierra new nevoda aa as elsewhere that the ordinary currents and the snow drifts have their special well weli beaten course from which they deviate but little 6 except by drifts the track of the railroad has his never been beed seriously obstructed ted where vabie lying on on level gro ground un d with no mountain peaks to turn drifts upon it enough snow never falls between trains to hinder the cars on regular time wherever it was possible in following ridges the track has been made to have a southern exposure and in in that situation with trains passing every six hours no amount of snowfall snow fall would make mackean an impediment where the track lie lle lies lles salong along niong the mountains ains slope sloped a plow wit hone bone moldboard mold board similar to that thal employed on farms will willi with a good steam force behind throw the snow so as to land many yards away 0 r nothing in the nature of the country through which it passes assumes the shape and dimensions of serious hindrance to the completion of the central pacific railroad rall Eail road where southern exposures posu po res with side hill plows are sufficient t the e road will be kept open byruch by such sueh cause and means where open cuts are the receptacle of flying snowbanks snow banks they will be cheaply roofed in where on a long sweep of level ground the snow is lodged by the winds which turn it from the mount mountain airl airi peaks aside a side wall will be put up where th atwill answer to break the current where it will not a trestlework kework open wall on each side of the track will support a plain roof and finally the splendid tunnels now going I 1 i in will carry the track tb rough through a large i portion of the distance known super euper i ticia licia lly ily as within the snow line THE SUMMIT Tm TUNNEL NEL the pacific railroad people says the sacramento bee see are making wonderful progress on the summit tunnel some persons eyen eden even engineers I 1 calculated that this great work would require three or four years for its completion and so it would in other countries or if it were under the control of laggards but here and in the hands of go ahead californians tunnel time is annihilated the tunnel is 1660 feet long it was begun in september last at four points on the east and on oil the west ends end and two other faces were created by a shaft in the center thus there are four faces I 1 with three set of hands to each or twelve sets of all each set works eight hours and the work goes on night and day and now on the first in the present month of all these feet there were but feet remaining to be U i cut cuti the progress last week was sixty feet and at this rate the tunnel will be completed by the middle of august next by measurement measure on the instant there were but feet in the east heading making as before wore stated feet in all to cut ana and so in lel the space ephe of eleven months from the period of its commencement men cement will this tunnel be finished A MUSTACHE MusT Acim DIVISION IN THE au an albany correspondent leils tells reh croudle iro Cro u uble ubie among the methodists there there has been quite a breeze stirred up here in th the e religious world the methodists have been greatly exercised on the mustache question several weak brethren have had their stomachs seriously disturbed by partaking of the sacramental wine in which their horrible brothers have moistened an offending mustache elle cile and to get rid of the bile thus resulting they fulminated a fierce tract against the and sinfulness of beard beards s in general and mustaches in particular and distributed it in all the pew pews hence a war in the church at first arnd arid then in the tho newspapers some of the brethren took the ground that as all the apostles wore beards who could raise them and that as our savior wore both the beard and ni mustache so when he instituted the L lords loras rss supper r it could wot Hot idol be so vor very sinful the warfare howe however ei still goes on and will probably 1 result in a further division of the churches in which we shall have churches with whiskers and churches without trouble as arisen in one of the presbyterian churches growing out of tiie tile jealousy between the rich and the poorer members the result b of which has been a some bome members and the raising of by the remainder to prey pay off the church debt thus showing that spunk will sometime accomplish more good t than lin can be obtained by a better cause preservation IN OF THE FORESTS OF I 1 A the subject of preserving the magnificent forests of michigan is engaging the serious attention of the legislature of that state its forest wealth once greater than that of any other state is tributary to so many lumber markets that it is rapidly disappearing sueh such vast wast tracts have been stripped that in the opinion of scientists climatic changes injurious to vegetation have been induced crops have been veen deteriorating for many years and andl andi it fis is plausibly argued that this is owing to despoliation of the woodlands wood lands the increased severity of the win vin winters teri by which fruit trees have bave been killed and the diminution of fertilizing rains are are atso attributed to this cause european I 1 experience is said to confirm the idea that the destruction of forests tends to sterility while a restoration of them thim renews the fruitfulness of the earth from the clearing of so large a section of timbered lands the cultivated districts have been more exposed to the blighting winds the loss to the wheat crop in one winter from this cause was estimated at 5 three fourths of the natural y yield leid had in comein some instances been sacrificed it is proposed to mitigate the evil by exempting forests from taxation and by legislation which will remove the necessity for large uses of timber in fences |