Show THE SNAKE CREEK TUNNEL great enterprise for park city development Is fairly lunched launched record park city utah notwithstanding the statements of those who insisted that the great daly judge snake creek tunnel would never be started only on paper and that it was only a scheme to get concessions etc the contract for the immense adit has been awarded work commenced mach nery ordered and plans decided upon that means the pushing and completing the work as fast as brains money and men will permit this means a great deal for the snake creek district as it will prospect a vast area of that sect section on there is no doubt that this tunnel company will inaugurate one of the biggest development schemes this section of the country ever heard of for by means of this tunnel they will be able to prospect seven hundred and fifty acres of patented ground owned by the company practically surrounded by the holdings of the king coalition daly judge and great western companies and along the great mineral belt of this section the tunnel will be six and a half hal by nine feet in the clear with a concave water way three and a half feet deep by four feet wide its length will be feet and aside from drainage will be used tor lor transporting ore and supplies compared with the elevation of the daly judge shaft it will bore at an average depth of some 1800 to 2000 feet while many places along its course will be from 2500 to feet from the surface the mouth of the tunnel is located just above the intake of the snake creek power company which is supplying the energy to drive the tui tunnel an and d as water is developed the power of this plant plan twill will be increased theresias The renas relias been several lines surveyed for the courso course of this tunnel but the one looked upon with most favor is the one headed tor for islet lake at the bottom of bonanza flat the portal of the tunnel is already under cover and everything evereth ever ng is in readiness 10 commence active operations free taylor the successful bidders are experienced tunnel men having been associated with many of the big tunnel propositions of this western country the machinery is already on the ground and the big drills and other paraphernalia will be here early next week and as many men as can be to profitably used will be put to work and the great bore pushed with all POs possible sibl speed the contractors are certain of averaging feet per month and with favorable ground double this distance might be made the financial backers of this great enterprise are the knights of provo hanke brothers and charles lang of cincinnati and J J wy daly of salt lale there has been some delay in getting this work started but the outcome proves conclusively that manager lambourne knew what he was talking about when he said that the tunnel would be put through and to him is due much credit for consummation of the big deal |