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Show BLOCKADE ON WESTERN PACIFIC It is reported that one of tho tunnels tun-nels on the Western Pacific, through the Feather rlvbr canyon, has caved in and a bridge hus been washed out arid It Is expected the line will b'o tied up for a "week or more. All the ft eight business of tho Western Pacific Pa-cific Is being bandied over the linos of the Southern Pacific between Sacramento Sac-ramento and Preble, Nev., which is-about is-about six miles east of Qolcondo. A tralnload of sheop routed by the Western Pacific went west Saturday over the Southern Pacific from Ogden. Og-den. It could not be learned definitely Just what tho trouble "was or what caused it, as the local officials of the Rio Grande say they know nothing of the trouble and tho information in the handB of the Southern Pacific officials of-ficials Is meager. it will bo remembered that about a year ago the Western Pacific had com I 'll sidorablc trouble caused by land slides k H in the Feather river canyon. Tho pe- I jH culiar shale-like formation makes it H very liable to slides and cave-ins and H when railroads wore first projected ' IH west of Ogden, though a better grado 1 H could be gotten by building through. " IH this canyon than by any other route, :H it was abandoned on account of Its IH sliding formation, -which was doomed to offsot the advantages of its grado. 'jH |