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Show KIMIOH IS 10 BASIS, says immwm .Denies Cardiff Is Consider-ing Consider-ing Use of Columbus Extension Tunnel. tersistent rumors have been in cir-ruIaUjon cir-ruIaUjon for a number of weeks to the effec:lf ttat tlle Columbus Extension tunnel tun-nel v?as j0 e cxtended through the Rexall ,.roup and hito the Cardiff ground. r,rcP rcnt j;zra Thompson, when ' , ..r'Virrling tho rumor last night, 6td tn-it Iv(1 at one time had thoui;ut ot tho propi;l:iitiou but that the Cardiff company ha.;,. not (aken aI1T definite ac- ; -6""fr n. rio auuea inai oe-fore oe-fore any such ..ytion would be taken a great deal or pro: specting on tho Cardiff property would h!ove to be done. Managing Director John F. Cowan, when asked regar .(in!; the rumor, admitted ad-mitted that he had tuoueht about it at odd moments. He insisted, however, that nothing of a de'anite nature had been done by the CoI-mbus Extension company regarding ar.v such proposition. proposi-tion. By way of explan ation he added that the company was at1' present bending bend-ing overy effort to put jthe tunnel in working shape. VL Mining engineers and O r.-.erators conversant con-versant with the difficultie- i of hauling ores from the Alta-Big Cottfpuwood district dis-trict nod especially from the ' south fork of the Big Cottonwood cnn':(fvon assert that the. extension of the tuiuiucl is the logical solution of the Cardiff , hauling problem. They add, however, ."that the Cardiff company has under consideration considera-tion the building of a trainwav. 8 I In the event that the Cardi"5,fT company, com-pany, tho Rexall company and the Columbus Co-lumbus Extension company agrt cd to the extension, tho Columbus Kxtis"nsion tunnel would have to be driven ;paabout ltitiO feet in order to got under, the Cardiff oro body. l |