Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-01-03 | Page 12 | In the Cactus Tunnel

I IN TH THE CACTUS TUNNEL Tapping of f WaterCourse Vat r Coure on ne Side Dea Delays Is Its Are After a r run up to sn spend New Ye Years rs day at hol home M sit M Johnson of manager th t he Cactus tn n Leaver ver left for tor camp a again in lest night night Mr Ir Johnn Johnson reported Sunday that hat mo Sundy i lay hd had been x In i in tb thc Io fun 11 through tapping or of a Watercourse on tIl mint at th the hour Two or r three tImes th dung tl lug Ing if r thi tunnel from the mine sIde the of water channels baa haa do de la laved 0 work t some extent but the last fJ flow w was MO ito areat that work from that Mi I had 1151 to b be abandoned So close I had th two gangs of men approached cach a h to the laying off of th the nl mine w side ilE crew that whEn when a round of bolos WH Was fired on one sid th the Cum fumes sl from t 11 powder would find their way t through h H In the to the I It is apprent apparent the therefore fore that while oy only one crew can be used it will b not ilot b be many hour hours tl till a hole UI Is punched wi through In fat fact Manager John Johnson n nih om riot not b be surprised to find on reaching camp tbt that haB been made