Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-20 | Page 4 | Underground Race for Yellow Gold

UNDERGROUND RACE FOR EOR YELLOW GOLD Denver Post PostA PostA A threemile race lACe 2000 fe fet feet t under underground underground underground ground ground for untold wealth wea bh is being watched with interest by the citizens of or Idaho Springs Jin s said Frank at the Union depot d Pot this morning Two of the richest mines In the dis als district triet are pushing their t way a through the mountain with untiring un en m energy me ergy e y The be Newhouse and ind nd the Big aig Five tunnels art are striving riving to first reach the theold theold theold old California vein in irl Quartz hill They began in Clear Creek Creel county C and are furiously mining toward county Bounty A and end fifty men Plen of brawn and lAnd intelligence are working In inel n el bt hour shifts day and night on both sides and each one of theta m to first strike a It pick pl k into the famous vel vein ein n of gold ld The Newhouse tunnel has now pen peu penetrated penetrated about two miles miles into the hill lII The Big Five is nearly near y as s far farm in and neither can tel teI which will first teach reach che the e lode One more mile mUe of underground and the vein wIM be bp reached r Ch ae dt