Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-22 | Page 28 | Seven to Eight Feet of Alta Tunnel Bore Daily

SEVEN TO EIGHT FEET OF or ALTA TUNNEl BORE DAilY The rate of or progress in the bore of ot ott t the Alta AHa Tum Tunnel el and Transportation company from Big Bis DG to Little Lite Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton Cotton- Coton- Coton wood canyons has been Increased from seven to eight feet per day in the last few days and there are Indications oran ot or otan an early change in the the formation which are very gratifying to the management man man- Manager F F. V. V Bodfish said yesterday yesterday yester yester- I day that that the ground was becoming softer and water was coming Into the face tace of both signs of proxImity proximity to a fissure Several rounds back the face has been full ful of iron The Flora Hagen vein cannot be very far ahead in fact It would have been cut already if i it had maintained the angle of or dip shown at the surface Beyond the Mora lora known veins occur at short intervals and the tunnel management expects to report many important oc occurrences occurrences occurrences oc- oc to its Is stockholders in the next two months S Working conditions at the property are said to be better than they have ever been before The Improvements made during the summer give the tunnel a a fine deep waterway through which a large stream continuously flows and a ventilation system which keeps keps the main breast well wel supplied with pure air all S The waste Is being handled by i a mule train nine or ten cars being dragged out at each trip This work was formerly done by hand and be became became became be- be came came quite quie a handicap after the tunnel tunnel tun tun- nd nel passed the thousand foot point It ItIs Itis I is now in a distance of about 2150 2160 feet Four hundred feet more is ex expected expected ex- ex to give it a connection with I the Con Congress ress vein which which apexes Inthe Inthe in inthe the Clements property owned by the tunnel company All Al the producing veins in the old Alta Ala district cross the line of the tunnel tunnel tun tun- nd nel and will wi be penetrated in the next three thousand feet from four to six si hundred feet deeper than they have been opened