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Show oo BLASTING BOCKS IN THE CAIOI s , i Two expert powder men were sent to Ogden today to blast away the huge rocks and debris of the mightv earth avalanche that Monday nnd yesterday swept from far up on the mountain and piled in vast heaps upon the railroad rail-road track and county road. Commissioner Moroni Skeen said to-1 day: "Lookout for more of them and one bigger than all the resL Wo have cut through a passageway for vehicles, but a great deal of hard work is required re-quired to clear the tracks and get the enormous avalanche out of the way." Meanwhile the railway passengers are being transferred around the obstructions. ob-structions. - The commissioners have men blast-' ing boulders from the bed of the river, i following the suggestion of John S.'t Lewis as a safeguard against floods.1 oo |