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Show THE (O.ilslOt K IiOKE Sutro Talkln- Abont'.llis Tnu 11 r I. New York, 0. Tho World says Adolph Sutro ia now hereaial a World corrcepoodc nt has interviewed him He aaid: " I have fulfilled my share of the contract, and they must lullill theirs. Ever since I started the tun nel I have inul lawsuits on my hand. I am getting usfd to tin in, and now rather erjoy them. Tne tunnel is through now hryi.nd the Savage. It ij ktruithl ut.der;round for a distance of 0,4i-'J feet. Jt has cost millicua ot j dollars to build Hint road; those mil lions were e-xpent'ta in llie tieliel that tbe men who were to tie bene lilted by the tunnel would stand by their contract. con-tract. I propose, or rather ibe lun-uel lun-uel company propose", to make them stand by it now, 'whether they are willing to do so or not." "Bot they claim that you have not fulfilled your part of tho contract." '"I have fulfilled every particular of my contract with tnem. Their shafts now are much deeper than they sup poaed they would be when the contract con-tract was made. But what has thai got to do with my tunnel? They will receive all the benefit from it that I ever promised them. My tunnel strikes tne Savage al the l.b'40 level It makes another surface for that mine 1.64U feel below the level of the Rhalt. Thp 0 inici l000 ii,ncn ia now really but 3lW feet below the surfnee. Ycu see what I mean. It is just the same aa if everything about the 1.C40 level was taken away and iho shaft was started anew from that point. The mines are below rae now, and I make a new surface- for theni. That is ail." "Ia the drainage qnceiion affected at a:l by the fact that the ebivts have passed below your level?" "It is affected :n this way: 'Insieari of my iu:i:iel draining ihe mines direc.ly. a-; wo intended, watr will have 10 h-j pimped up lo my levol. But the sunt! principle cunts iu hero. You cud m row r If more water from a depth ol cu ) feet :h:in von can Irrni I U.OUU f. et. Wht n tho K.wagc company com-pany comes to ih 3 rone.e.-ion that it uad b..i:er p iy me my royally, as it will, the wat,.r that it is now pumping from tho lower levels will have to bo raised on by CGUiVet, and sent ti:rrnh my Uinne-1 lo the '.'.iron river. You cau see. anvhodv can hh,. li , -, f- tu saving in this one poiut only is of vast import unco to all mines there. The veutiUlion which lh;y will all receive from the tunnel will be of incalculable in-calculable benefit. Men who r.nw can work only ten or fit toe-11 miuutrs at a time wi.l Im able to p it in their eight hems Won;. My tunnel is bound to i--ive f-r t , mie in lab-r, to oav.i i, r t.n-m m maelor.ery, and to sr.vc for tlie tn in time " |