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Show TERRITORIAL NEWS GJeanod from Various Sources and Arwigod for rapid reading. Nsarly month ago tho rimes slated thntl'rtst. flruback of the San Vet Valley read had nu Iraportaiit trafll deal on. That deal 1ms now been eon-aumuated. eon-aumuated. It la a onnsellon with tlio Uulon Tactile by which tlio llttlo rend usts a strnleht haul into Ocdeu. It alto means the standard gauging of the tracY. in tho nenr future and within a year tha exttmlon ol tho line bo lout? talked of. In the mean time people down in Ban Teto will bo bonsfltted by concessions jtom tholllo Qraudc, necessarily given beenueoof through competition. NcphI Times. 5 1,11 pat tlio Hock Salt mlno on Wednesday Wed-nesday the big rhot was tot otfnnd ai a result tue company has orer 200 tons of salt on tho kiouihI floor ready lor tbe-teams tbe-teams to haul to Kureka, For tho two days after the storm tho workmen had been engaged in d;lvlug th holu to receive re-ceive the charge, from the topofn twelvt gj foot table in tho breast of the deposit B and forty feot abovo tho ki mind floor of fj the mino Wednesday morning the hole was completed, having been driven seventeen feet. Early In the day two ptloks of giant powder were exploded lit the holo to sprtDK tho mlno and in the nlternoen thirteen sticks of giant and u keg of bltck powder was charged in tho chamber created by a sroal1 blast. Exactly at 6 o'clock tho eiiargo was l.nlff.l ml lb minutes Inter It exnloded. It seemed na if tho whole faco of the mountain was inn convulsion. Tho central portion of tho groat r-d cllft bulged out and thon tho top ft mighty buss weighing ton upon ton dropped down and eruBhed all below It. The report was euly a dull thud and could not havo been heard over threo . hundred yards from tho tcene, bo well had the work of tlio men been done. Nepbl Times. |