Show TO THREE TON ROLLS DOWN THE HILL INTO DITCH A peculiar accident happened to the big boiler being taken up to the carbonate hill mine yesterday morning from the bottom of the canyon to the mine Is between three fourths of a mile and a mile right up the moun tain with the latter third pretty steep about two thirds of the way up is a short steep pitch and taen a depression where a small gulch crosses the road up the hill manager van patten had let the contract to deliver tho boiler to the mine and the men had hitched EIX horses to it and started up the hill good progress had been mado and the contractors had begun to congratulate themselves upon the easy money they were making when they reached the pitch above referred rei erred ito at this point there Is more snow than there is below and the sun has less chance to reach it the ice remaining till about noon and freezing again as soon as the sun goes behind the hill the boiler had been hauled just to the top of the pitch spoken of and they had stopped for a rest when the next start was made some of the horses began to slip then the whole team commenced to seo saw and jerk with the result that the big boiler became unstable and anally over and rolled a hundred feet down into the very ba tom of the gulch it was an interesting sight to see the look of dismay on the face of the contractors as they watched the big iron tube rolling over and oyer down the mountain bide while their prospects of a soft job vanished into thin air the boiler is probably not very badly damaged and will be set back onto the road by meana of a block and tackle and then skidded the rest of the way up to the mine the contractor wanted van patten to let the boiler stay where it Is until the snow goes oft but he said nay it go on up and be put into position tor handling the tramway at the mine |