Show TAPPING T WATERS A alom loss expensive and it my may bo be in ome localities a better of supply is in found in many of tho gulches coming down from the mountains chapo V shaped gu galenes lenes having solid rims runs aud bott bottom oin aro are filled with sand gravel and soil so porous as to make tho water flow lowan an underground stream lu in such gulches water may bo secured by running in a tunnel to tap bodrock bedrock bod bed rock af after ter which a bulkhead should i bo put in and the tunnel to carry water to the surface tho the best i illustration of this plan is in bl nghiem binghom i can Y on the tunnel opposite lead mill and roaches reaches bod bed rook at a depth of about feet this tunnel was run to tap the rich placer gravel and it pro promises to pay well in amount of gold extracted but the water thus secured is destined to provo prove something of a bonanza tho the creek running down the cation canon ic ia so eo laden with filth as to bo be useless for anything but mining or milling oper abiona and it is wren even of little use for thoad but much of this water sinks through the gravel being baing completely fiAt filtered erod so as to run out tho mining tunnel as sweet cloar and limpid suitable for any use tiso desired it is being behig conveyed into good lands below the mouth of tho canon and used to irrigate crops tho the sevier river is an example of a large stream flowing through a broad abroad valloy valley and having such a sandy grav 1 oily bed aa asto to sink and have an flow some of the dams dains on the st streams reanis take out so much water as j lovo doivo loivo the river below belov almost dry for distance to tho underflow undorf low to the surface making a 9 visibly r ay again tunneling and bulk heading will 1 for sov I 1 i deriver what it has dono done iu in small way iu bingham canyon dri ing piles across tho bed of tho riv will accomplish tho work without t tl expense ex of tunneling but it must e tend laud on each side far enough to fort fo the water up alfonc platte river I 1 nebraska thero there is this undorf lo and which seems to extend a lo 10 IOE distance there aro arc places where the wat wai rises and falls in walle walla as the rh liaos rises and falls where near the mi rit the wolla almost immediately to tho riso and fall of the river b bi where back from the river a few wil mils the are the same but ther the is a marked difference as to tinie time FUE ni nt ning i ng nome sometimes times into days instead c hours tho the id ida advanced in tl article arti clo if followed up may reaul tit good and if so tho the object of the wn tor ter will have been met mel |