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Show RECEIVING BIDS FOB BIG TUNNEL Management Gives Assurance on Snake Creek-Daly-Judge Project. Manager G. W. Lnmbournc of the Daly-.Icdgc Daly-.Icdgc company returned Sunday evening from a brief visit at the Park City mine und mill. Mr. Lambourne stated Monday mirnlng that everything Is moving along about as usual, there boing no new dc-elopmcnts dc-elopmcnts of Interest. The bids for tho propphed Daly-.Iudgc-Snakc creek tunnel are nearly all in. Mr. Lambourne states, and within the next few days, the company com-pany will go over them In dctAII and decide de-cide upon which of them shall be accepted. tegurdlng the. report, which has gained circulation In some quarters to the effect that the tunnel proposition will never get beyond the stage of a "paper project," Mr. Lambourne pays no attention, stating that progress sufficient to Insure the completion com-pletion of the work has already been made, and that In due time operations will be started and vigorously prosecuted. Big Undertaking. The rounding out of a proposition as largo as this tunnel undertaking will be, requires no little time, and In order that the best possible- results may be obtained In the work and to all concerned, it Is necessary that, every detail be given enroful consideration before any definite action Is taken or work is actually started. The big bore Is lo be made by what is known as the Daly-Judge-Snakc Creek Tunnel company, a corporation fornicd for the purpose of accomplishing the work, and when completed will be some 14,500 feet In length, six feet six Inches high nnd nine foot wide In the clear. It will be double-tracked throughout, and electrically elec-trically equipped, the water to be carried off In a trench four feet wide and three and one-linlf feel deep, running the entire, length of the tunnel. It will cut through a vnst territory of practically virgin ground, and will at. points In Its course attain a depth of -1000 feet. If Is figured that it will take nt Icnst three years to complete tho work and the operations will result In the expenditure, of not less than $1,000,000. Laterals from the main drift will be run to prospect the mineralized ground through which II will pass, and It Is expected that the ore deposits de-posits of the Daly-Judge will be materially mate-rially nddcVJ lo as a result of tho work, and at the same time other companies owning ground In the vicinity of tho tunnel tun-nel will profit largely by the drainage afforded af-forded and by the prospecting which will be accomplished as operations proceed. |