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Show riding their hobby to death. 1 Apparently the Great Jehovah, when He caused the rocks to be split in twain and the mountains to open wide, marked one highway through this region for the commerce of nations, and then, as though to point the one way, he placed inhibitions on other delusive routes. Of course, man proposes, notwithstanding God disposes, and some very headstrong men have ignored the nature -warnings set against their designs and have attempted to defy the mandates written on the cliffs, in the sands of the desert and even on high in the clouds j and the elements. j WHEN THE LAKE RISES. With Great Salt Lake rising, the indications are the Western Pacific track on the south lake shore will be not onlv washed out but completely submerged when spring opens and the rivers pour in their floods on the "Inland Sea." A traveler, who has been over the Western Pacific, says the aiost dangerous piece of track though is not the submerged portion on the shore lines, but that stretch of road which, resting on the salt beds further west, near the Nevada boundary, is of most treacherous construction. .Outwardly there is no evidence of weakness, even when the whole mass of salt is honeycombed and rotted by the action of water.. Some day a passenger train will speed on to one of these nndei-mined salt bottoms and disappear as though the earth had rwallowed it, and then the Western Pacific's foibles will be at an end, and the sensible and reasonable thing to do, that of sending trains over the Ogden route, will be forced upon the men who arc |