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Show BINGHAM - TOOELE TUNNEL OPENS WAY FOR LOCAL MINES DEVELOPMENT WORK TO BE RUSHED BV TUNNEL COMPANY About fifty additions to mine employee em-ployee payrolls have been made the past ten days by National Tunnel and Mines company, recently formed form-ed by merging the old Utah-Apex Mines and Utah Delaware mining companies. According to J. A. Nord-en, Nord-en, general manager of the tunnel company and formerly of Placer-ville, Placer-ville, California, employees will continue working six days a week. All Highland Boy and Bingham residents re-sidents who can qualify for wqrk and have applied for jobst are now employed. Plans for pumping water from 1200 foot level to 1500 foot level, water to ge moved at the rate of 2000 gallons a minute and taking six months to accomplish, are being be-ing made. All old workings with available ore are being opened. It Is estimated that ore In upper levels lev-els will require sgyeral years to remove before the supply Is exhausted. ex-hausted. Present wage scale for miners Is $5.55 and $4.05 for muckers, representing repre-senting an Increase of 25 per cent over what was paid workers last summer. |