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Show DRAIN TUNNEL MAKES EXCELLENT PROGRESS The Wasatch Drain Tunnel i3 making excellent progress, according to J. K. He vend ge, manager. Approximately eight feet is made every two shifts. October 1 the face was about 5000 feet from the portal. Another TOO or S00 feet should bring the tunnel a sufficient dnstance to tap the lowest workings of the Old Columbus. Co-lumbus. .Already the tunnel is affording the old workings drainage. The Old Columbus shaft, which is 400 feet deep, is being un-watered un-watered at the rate of three feet per day. In a little more than forty days t iie water has dropped to the 200-foot level, which leaves but 200 feet more to be drained off. Should the shaft be totally to-tally un watered before the tunnel makes a connection with the old workings, work will be resumed in the shaft. Suitable equipment Is already on the ground for mining operations and ore bodies carrying carry-ing good values in silver can be mined profitably as soon as proper drainage is provided, it is said. The formation in the face of the tunnel tun-nel is quite favorable to progress. As most of the water is running from fissures fis-sures back of the face, work of drilling is being done without Interference from water. |