Show A CHEAT WORK COMPLETED ontario drain tunnel is through at last IALA slips through ashes through e wai tho joyful message that cuno cima from park lark city to tho ontario officio yesterday day this meant that contier COD nee tion lion haj been made in ado bocen tho long drain tunnel and tho the mino wor workings hangs and alit tho the greatest undertaking undertake under taki in in tho the history of utah mining had been CP 1 consummated 1 a work that has required bix years of ins incessant instant sant labor and tho the expenditure of it was just 9 sunday evening when the ho drills of tho abo force wg in rp toward tho shaft brolio broke through tho the faco of tho the foot tunnel that biad been driven out to ineat them the connection was almost perfect both in grado grade and alig and I 1 mining en engineer C ineer 0 A palmer and foreman john keatley catley IC havo have abundant canso to feel elated of 01 courso course it was necessary to ariyo tho tha two turin on an up amido in order to so uro drainage drai nare and the ho L 1 elrado ado at tho the point of connee connection tion is ther therefore eforo higher than at oither either end li it will require about two no weeks ta to abt it cl tins this down and thoro there will then bo a gradual fall iwon to insure a free flow of tho water fron from tho 1600 foot covol to tho mouth of the tunnel tho the great cornish cornioli Corni sli pump will then bo stopped and alia torr olit of that luuis into tho the mino mine through number loss subterranean courses will bo be turned luto into tho now outlet ting the completion of a work 11 ork thit that was commenced six years ago 0 the all of last july and ono that liag has att 1 the attention of mining nion men throughout tho the count country rv the tunnel 11 15 fet feet or nearly thieo mile in length it boon noces naces aay to tart start it that dif distance talico from tho wo workings ekings in order to tap them nt at the desired depth 1500 feet tho time consumed was nas six years three months and twelve lays days and the average per lay day was six and three quarters feut feet tho the work has boon been prosecuted in th the e faco face of many obstacles and discouraging n ini mishaps but tho company hay has gono r ono steadily forward with daunt dauntless loss energy determination and pluck on Noven november ibor 2 1890 tho antiro plant tit at tho mouth of the tunnel was wag dos destroyed troyed by fire which caused a delay of sixty birty lays days at various times hines veins of water ot of ono enormous rinous volume and pros pressure suro have been tapped capped and tho the how flow has been so groat great that all work was suspended until phoso underground reservoirs had been drained for days tho the men hayo up to their waists in water another great source of annoyance and expense was the swelling of tho the rock the walls nalls of the tunnel expanding andin with nith such force as to crush groat timbers like egg shells and two sots lots of timbering were required lequir ed through this illis ground an average force of fifty mon men including the surface men has ha been employed this immense tunnel will drain tho the ontario daly and daly west mines with which it has direct connection it is expected that it will also reduce tho water in the silver king and many other properties the flow through tho the tunnel before connection was mado was about 1300 gallons per minute salt lake lahe tribune |