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Show BINGHAM-TOOELE TUNNEL PROGRESSES If continued progress on the Elton tunnel of about 1000 feet a month is maintained, the four-and-one-half mile underground bore between Tooele on the western west-ern side of the Oquirrh range to the Rood shaft of the Utah Apex property oi iaiionai lunnei ana Mines company at the 2500 foot depth, will be completed by April, 1941. Every foot of ground pushed into at the present depth carries strong possibility of both mineral min-eral and water. On July 18 the tunnel stood at 16,000 foot mark; August 17 at the 17,000 foot depth; September 19 at 18,000 feet; and October 22, at 19,000 feet. At the 18,953 foot mark, a new fault was encountered which contained quartzite and gouge, and a small amount of water. O |