Show GREAT TUNNELS NEEDED if the great ontario drain tunnel at park city utah had been driven ten or fifteen years sooner than it was millions would have been saved to the corn company pany for the expense of pumping water was so enormous that nothing t but bu t the existence ot gigantic bodies of high grade ore made it possible for the company to defray this huge outlay and yet pay the millions in dividends that it has in the past in the wasatch range from park city way over into american fork canyon there are a number of most attractive tunnelling tun nelling propositions in this country it is almost an impossibility to operate mines by means of shafts on account of the great inflow 0 oi water but long tunnels would attain splendid depths and make it an easy matter to work numerous mines and prospects along its course using the tunnel as a common avenue and outlet tor for all waste and ore as well as a general drainage system A big working tunnel started at the juncture of the south fork of the canyon in big cottonwood and driven for the alta dis divide would not only give an outlet for the many properties in the south pork fork but would also tap the mines of alta at a depth heretofore undreamed of such a tunnel when completed and when drifts and cross cuts had been driven to io the known veins and mines of the district would do away with the heavy haul up and down the canyon and would enable the mine owners to de liver their ores to the main canyon road without interference from snow blockades i and bad weather a and nd at only a nominal cost supplies and provisions could be taken in through the same avenue and the expense of mining operations would be reduced to a nominal figure fl gure the same conditions exist in little cottonwood canyon and in american fork in these sections only surface operations are and can be carried on under present conditions and results cannot be otherwise but unsatisfactory and yet if a consolidation of interests were to be made a long drain tunnel could be driven at an expense not exceeding the amounts expended in individual operation and when the tunnel was completed each mine owner each company would be in a position where mining 0 could be carried on in a most satisfactory manner and at a cost comparatively small compared with the almost prohibitive expense now entailed in the effort of many to meet the ever present water problem we believe the day will soon come when combinations of mining men will have a dozen tunnels driven into the ore deposits of the Wa range that these will be miles in length and that they will attain great depth when this time comes no longer will the mine owner be obliged to suspend mining operations tor for several months in the year because of the impassibility of mountain roads and no lon gerwill longer will they be obliged t to meet excessive wagon haul rates and spend small fortunes annually in the effort to economically solve the water problem |