Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-17 | Page 12 | Big Electric Motor for King Coalition

BIG ELECTRIC MOTOR FOR KING COALITION The immense electric motor to be installed in-stalled at the Silver Hill station in the Alliance tunnel, was hauled up to tho property Monday last, requiring soven span of horses to pull It up the hill, says tho Park City Record. Before reaching the mouth of the tunnel It lipped over In tlio deep snow. Sveial hours were spent In getting It back in position, but it is now at the tunnel, awaiting the three-mile three-mile haul to get It where It will be put in operation. Other heavy machinerv was hauled to tho proporty this week. A largo force of men. including many married mar-ried men who were thrown out of employment em-ployment by the recent tire at tho Dalv-West, Dalv-West, are hun-ylng to completion tho flh- isning toucnes 01 tins immense underground under-ground station. Hundreds of sacks of cement ce-ment aro being used every shift In the concrete work for the whole station, roof, walls and floor will be of this material. ma-terial. Those In authority think bv the first of April everything will bo in "place and the work of sinking the Sliver Hill shaft be in progress. It Is surely a wonderful won-derful piece of work, and when finished will be the biggest and best equipped underground station in tho country. It will bo operated excluslvolv by ' electricity.