Show L U UI DRIVING I I T TUNNEL fL T I SLIDE LI Alta Alia Mining Operators Complain That County Count Commissioners Have Been Slow to Respond TO REQUESTS FROM CITIZENS Who ho Expected J Some Sonic Assistance in Clearing Little Cottonwood Canyon C Road Hoad The producers of ot Alta AliI do rIo not feel teel very cry kindly I towards the county count authorities whose business It h Is to look after tho the public highways When tho the recent came In Little canyon a week or s sago ago ugo the ho county commissioners were no titled tilled and the assurance was given glen by them that the thu county would render every assistance possible rn tn opening the tho tim avenue at ut the earliest possible date so 80 sons ns as to allow tho the movement of ore which had been temporarily suspended The commissioners failed tailed to do a thing It Is la said sO fo the teamsters who have hlo been transporting the ors or B from the tho various mines down clown the canyon on took look a hand In Inthe inthe the tho matter and being supported by b the owners of the principal mines are arc now tiow clearing Away awny the obstruction On each side of the ho slide long trenches have been heen dug and where the snow Is IB the deepest a tunnel lit lt being driven It Ills Is now tin to over oer 60 feet teet In length and will probably require CO GO O feet more moore to make the connection through the tho slide This done shippers will vIiI Legin moving ore Oro down the he canyon lInyon again Manager J A Jacobson of ot the South Columbus Mining company com pall carne came down from camp last lut night and states that when ho hB come came over the top tOl of the slide about 20 21 men were nt at work In tho the road rondo For several days past has hal been carried on with the tho camp In n a small way a It being necessary to transfer everything at nt tho the lower end of at the slIde Hilde anti and on being snaked over It reloaded onto sleighs and IId thence car carried riot ried on Into the tho camp Mr Jacobson Jacobean sly soya the Interference with the movement of ores has not any OCI nn letting up In the work vork go goIng going o Ing on at nt the th mines mine lIe He did III not visit ny of ot the properties outside of the one ono over which he ho line charge Columbus but at nt this property the main tunnel has been completed to the length of feet and Is la being pushed towards the vein at nt the thu most mORt rapid rate rato possible without the assistance of ma ton machine m chine chino drills Several fissures have hlo been cut bU tn t be ho P paid ld to them until time the main ore ire body bod of f the tha property Is la encountered |