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Show SOLID ROCK WILL PRDTECTPROPERTY Utah Mines Coalition Has Placed Machinery and Office Of-fice Underground. CAN. DEFY SNOWSLIDES Boarding' House Is Localed' Beneath" Two Hundred Feet of-Solid Hill. The extent, lo which the Utah Mines Coalition, company can bid defiance to the coming winter and lis snowulldcs, tho company having lost threo men and valuable valu-able time last winter from this cause. Is apparent from tho extensive arrangements arrange-ments just being completed up Big t.ot-tonwood. t.ot-tonwood. Duncan MacVlchlc, president of the company, made a flying trip to the mine Monday, starting at 7 In the morning and reaching I ho city by S at night, a trip unexpectedly brief considering consid-ering the quality of winter weather now helng experienced up the canyon and the nature of the roads. In a large spaee cleared away near the mouth of the tunnel, and completely underground. un-derground. Iho management has installed ihe compressor, blacksmith shop, assay office, and company office, and all these accessories are now being used regardless regard-less of weather eondltlons. Tho miners boarding house formerly was located at the base of the cliff where It was thought to be immune from slides, but which, last January, was directly in tho path of a disastrous slide. This cliff has hecn excavated sulllcient-lv sulllcient-lv to permit the erection of the boarding board-ing house, the front of which looks put upmi the open air of the canyon, but uver iho roof is solid rock 200 feel In height, so should the slide oC last whiter' whi-ter' bo repealed there 13 absolutely nothing noth-ing on the outside to be damaged, these preparations naturally have taken Mine, but Mr. MaoVIchle and his associates feel that they have protected their cm-plovces cm-plovces and machinery to tho most complete com-plete cxt-nt possible. Conditions 11 1 the property, says President Presi-dent MaeYichic. arc satisfactory In every way. -Ml the mine workings ate choked with ore, and shipments have been Interfered In-terfered with for several days owing to the storms which the teamsters would not face. There wns a total fall of three feel of snow Monday at tho mine, and manv of the drifts were deep enough to bother the horses materially. |