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Show MINERS HOLE THROUGH IN FOUR-MILE TUNNEL Lark Hard rock miners driving driv-ing the new four-mile Bingham mine tunnel for United States Smelting Refining and Mining Co. Sunday junctured with the No. 3 shaft, completing the main course of a multi-million dollar ore haulage development. Workmen for the general contractor, con-tractor, Utah Construction Co., "holed through" to the shaft at 6:46 a.m. Sunday. Purpose of the new tunnel is to bring all ores from the various var-ious USSR&M mining phases within the mountain out of a common portal and thereby simplify sim-plify the shipping operations to the company smelter at Midvale. f Shaft No. 3, completed last October, will bring ores from drifts above the level of the new bore down to the tunnel. The tunnel also junctures with the old No. 2 shaft, which will carry ores from the phases below |