Show PACK HI DRILL MILES OK SKIS Miners Carry 75 pound Bui den From Park City to Alta Tunnel Property The problem of gett np; a 7o pound stop ng dr 11 from the Amer can Flag m ne at Park City over the d v de to the Alta tunnel in the Silver Tork of the B g Cottonwood canyon confront ed the management of the tunnel th s week The matter was simpl f ed how ever when William Johnson and Uno Alpe husky miners of the tunnel crew volunteered to carry the machine The distance was between s xteen and seventeen miles much of b uph 11 and all ot it impeded by from four to f f teen feet of snow The surface of the snow was soft It would not bear up a man unless he wore snowshoes The two m ners enowshoed to 1 ark City Thursday Vi day morn ng they started back loaded Johnson carr ed the dr 11 and Alpe was almost as heav lly burdened with steel for use In the mach ne Climbing h Us that tenderfeet f nd hard to negot ate on f rm ground was slow work for the carriers but they trudged on bend ng under the we pht of the r loads as far as Crescent h 11 on the northern slope of the d v de Here they cached the r packs for the n gl t and returned to Pari C ty The rema nder of the d ff cult tr p was made yesterday The load was picked up where it ha3 been left bOrne up the steep divide and down into Cot tonwood canyon past Br ghtott and thence up the S lver Tork to the tun nel Super ntendent Forsman tele phoned last n ght that the drill and steel had arr ved m good shape and were in use already dr v ng a round n the ra se recently started on the tun nel s h gh grade ore When they f rst unstrapped the r bur dens Johnson and Alpe were rather st ff and sore but they had no other ill ef fects from the r remarkable tr p The raise n the tunnel was started with a breast dr 11 and th s mach ne was too heavy and awkward to lift up as the ra se progressed Rather than give up the work in its most interest ing stage Mr Jorsman authorized the undertak ng in wh ch h s star miners d st nguished themselves An assay of $143 was obtained the other day from the streak of ore n which the Alta tunnel is working It was cross cut by the bore about 900 feet from the portal |