The Engine 'Yale' is daily employed, under the direction of Mr. Munro, ballasting the first half dozen miles of Railway. An excellent gravel pit is opened a little West of the Powder Magazine, where a force of men—whites, Indians and Chinese—are loading gravel cars, and as soon as ready the engine hauls them to the distributing points along the road, while empty cars are moved forward to the pit, and shovelling commences as before, and so on; thus gangs are kept busy at the gravel pit, and others employed unloading the cars. Each day witnesses additional stretches of ballasted road.

An occasional trip is made by the locomotive from Emory to the vicinity of Nos. 3 and 4 tunnels with bridge timber, thereby keeping that part of the business in a progressive state. Altogether so far as we can see or learn the work along the line is being pushed with praiseworthy energy.

We regret to add that too often do accounts come down the line of serious accidents. We still hold that proper precaution is not taken by those in immediate charge of divisions. Life is held too cheap, generally, in this country, and it will evidently require severe punishment to teach parties that they cannot trifle with other people's lives even if they are careless about their own existence.