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Show Romances ' , ......i.,-. tipTtt: Industry ! ,'i By winthwop Biooua . cfeMrtirhf, ltt . fNew .Turn i Bvenlng . World), by FNh PiftUsblnc Ca. CupyrhTM. 1MI Ta t Terk BraalBaT World), by Praaa Pabllahlna Ca -FIBRCIKa TUB ! Of A llOUaj-V llOUaj-V TAJ Ona of tha mo, dramatic anflnaar-ll) anflnaar-ll) faata of tha nlnlaanlh cantury la connected with tha namaa of Adolph Sutro and of tha famoua Comatock Loria. tha Alk'ldln's cava of fortune. By 1M, aftar aavcral mllllona had haan dug out of tha loda. watar had bacoma a aerloua obatacla to further opr-ulona. Adolph Hutru. an Immigrant Immi-grant from Germany offered a eolu-tion eolu-tion of tha problem. That solution waa a ' tunnel tu plercs tha heart of tha mountain. ... ma tunnel ' was to bs four miles long. It waa to furnish an outlet for Hie water, aa well as to serve ss a back entrance to the mine for men end materials. Hutro formed his company com-pany In But It took Mm six yars to get ths work started, because of miration caused by algnators to the rontrsct who thought they had put lhelr money In a venture that would nut pay and who figured, too. thai thy were aavlng 92 on every ion of ore dug before the tunnel waa opened. " Huiro started ths dirt flying- In ap-temoer. ap-temoer. I NT 1. Krom that time until July. he fought lha forcea or nature aa persistently as ha had fought Utleranta prior to 1871. Tha progress aas distressingly slow. In the alieenra of modern machinery tha borlnga advanced only i l-l feat a day even when everything waa going on awimmtngly. In the meanwhile tha recalcitrant signers nf the contract were taking $7 from the company's futurs earnings Mr tvsrr lunar pf nra-mksn nut of tha mlnea while tha tunnel waa alng con-airucted. con-airucted. The Invention of tha Burleigh drill In 1874 multiplied the progreaa of tha diggers bv four. But then a new enemv appeared heat so Intenaa. In the bowels of the mountain, that even the mules rebslled. By 1875 Uia temperaturs' had risen to 83 degrees Farenhett. Thst waa not so had; but la 187a ths ir.en wars working In a. temperature of Si. and by the spring of 1878 tha heat atood at 114 degrees. That Is a little higher than the temperature of the hot rooms In some turklah bath houses. Deaplte every effort to supply fresh sir by every 'means known at that period, the air grew frightfully foul. Sutro fought doggedly on and his men with him. Cm July 8, 1878. only a few feet of rock prtd th burro bur-ro wen from th Kavare mine. A blaat from tha mine brok the barrUr and Putro. panttnc for breath, itrode Into tha mine, hla faca blackned, hl clothes In fatten, but tha llirht of triumph tri-umph In hie indomitable ayea. In the face of almoet Insuperable) difficulties, both of natura and of man, he had accomplished tha frreatevt feat |