| Show OXBOWS CAVED TUNNEL Big Placer Proposition in Idaho Still Being Held Up r e V it Ii Dill Di of or the Golden Treasure who wh has ha Just jUt returned from the scene see of oC the operations at th the Oxbow of o the Payette Fayette states sUte the caving over the tunnel appeared to have stopped stopp when he left let says s S the Bole Boise Statesman Stateman The tunnel Mr 11 Dill Di states state is ia i caved for tor forty tOlt feet teet that being bing the Ule width of the tho streak of or decomposed granite Fur Further Further ther titer up I it widened and the cave eve above is im j in the form of ot a hopper hOPI r About Abut five th times as a much flUCh material has been ben re removed r moved move that tat came in from the cave as was taken out in boring bing the tunnel tunnel Mr Dill DI explains that the problem has baa la beta bm to vet et the debris deliria cleared Cle seaway y long enough elough to admit of r f the removal of a great get boulder that came me in ht and nd blocked bloke the tunnel tunnel Ordinary Orinal material was vas swept out of the tunnel by the fits v water ater This boulder bulder blocked bloke the th tunnel and it waa U necessary to remove remo ft it t in order to timber up the hole but so often as W a the men reached the boulder the lbs ground above aDe began again to cave making it I necessary nelar to do the work all allover al allover over oer again About Abut twenty t wet times Ume that operation has lias 1 been ben repeated When Whan Mr 11 Dill Di left the men were at work on the boulder and there was good reason r an to believe bleve the tha ground would stand ion long lone enough to admit of its it removal When Whon the boulder is got out of the way the te water will wI sweep out every everything everything thing el ela else Then the tunnel will wi be uit heavily timbered through the tue break brek On top of the timbers r dirt will wl be b loaded to prevent rocks rk from tom crushing theta them tem and then the the situation will wf be b under control l This caving has nas delayed delae the compa company ny fly a year Q and entailed 8 a great addi additional additional tonal item Hom of expense When hen the tunnel was nas wa being bored bore hot water was IUS encountered encountered in great quantity It I was a so I hot hol that the rocks i were heated to rok hett t a high temperature and great gret clouds of steam poured pur out out Men cn could scarcely work there and aud it became necessary to pump in water with wih which the walls wals were sprinkled to reduce the heat het To still sti further Improve conditions an air all shaft Avas WIS made where the streak of rood Io d granite appeared appere and amid this thi start started started ed th he cave ce When the waters of or the river 1101 were wore tUla through they tey soon n began to en enlarge enlarge large Jarge the shaft and its It side caved This Th continued until the cave reached to the tho h surface about ninety feet and the sides side caved until the hole took the tion timi form of ot a great excava excavation |
