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Show THE STORY OF TOOELE I ,.. ... i- . " - " l-'''" " '' - y 4 ' , I ' . r. f r . - ' ... -""""! -- . . , , . ..J',v ... -r V'. ' v ., . . L-- . - ' - Among th- many development projects undertaken by International Smelting and Refining Company , that have brought industry to Utah is the $2,000,000 Tooele to Bingham tunnel. View shows surface- plant at portal of tunnel at Tooele. (Editor's NV.tc: T'nis is the fourth of a sr of eieht articles titkd "The Story of Tooele".) Tonflp tnkr-s a place hii;h in the 1 Is l of 1'i:mi's industrial generating rnmmiM) i: ir; r. s a ro.ult of the Frop? nf opera; inns of the Intr-rna-iirnr:l Snif-:iii: and R-. fin ins Com-panv. Com-panv. In one your the cnnip;my paid a railroad freight bill of J4.000.0U0 on ore, hnllim. and supplies, and lioii'ht ? r;.u''.0u0 worth of ore from Utah and tributary mines. Stemming nut from Tooele also is this program of exploration which has boon performed by the Interna; ional Company. When the company entered an area it pave encouragement, to others to follow. Wherp a project w? succ- Fsful, it. had the offoct. of stimula! in:; additional ad-ditional exploration and bringing new ground ino productiviiy. Naturally not. all of Jniernafion-al'g Jniernafion-al'g exploratory programs have ben succes.-fui. Many limes ihou-f-ands of dollars have been r-xpejid-ed in prospecting that will never return one cnt. One of the company's most re-rent re-rent project s was i be linking of Tooele and I'Miiebam with a deep drainage and 1 ra n.-por: a inn tunnel, tun-nel, which opened to economical operation an ore zone below i.he water wa-ter table. The tunnel was driven from the west side of the Oi'iirrh ranpo Into Ibe heart of TlinL'bam's ore prnd uciiig a rea, a d unco of 4Vz miles. Tli is I unnel lias unlocked new ore reserves IbaL are now ivins powerful support to the war program pro-gram and to the industrial of tbo state. The project required imagination, imagi-nation, enurai;". and the expenditure expendi-ture of ?L 000, 000. More recently t h e company lirnnbt into product inn a copper producer at Copper Canyon, near Jiattle Mountain, Nevada. The oro is bejns shipped to Tom le for Kmeltini:. The iifth artiide in this series will appear m tbese columns soon.) |