| Show don conwell a civil engineer in the employ of the southern pacific at lake sloe lucin cutoff Is in the city on a short visit the much talked ot big blast which the utah construction company has been putting in at the point of the hill just east of evanston wyo was fired at 2 yesterday afternoon and was witnessed by about one hundred citizens of evanston two tunnels had been driven under the hill sixty feet where kegs of powder were planted the blast made but little noise but lifted the hill up several feet cracked it open and pulverized the formation so that it can be removed with steam shovels the construction company Is now driving four or alve more tunnels where they expect to explode a larger quantity of powder in about a week the work Is being done to shorten the line and lessen the grade on the union pacific |
