Show ALPINE MOUNTAIN FULL OF HOT WATER A moot remarkable trouble ha has haR been met mft by the engineer engineers who are digging the wonderful tunnel that rune run through the great Simplon mountain and U is to open n a gate through the A Alps B between Switzerland and Italy Ital After tIer the Swine Swig end enel of or the tunnel had harI been practically finished and the Ule Ital ItAI Italian ian fan end lId had hall l been een en begun the workmen noticed a It peculiar Jl heat In Inthe Inthe Inthe the borings boring With each foot fad that va wa was removed d this heat grew Ie until It became almost Impossible to work For Fir a long lone time It waS u u a to en on and troll Ill others othe 1 geologist t were vert called In but JUl without result rl I I Finally Jt na II however It was war round found thus Hint I I the heat came from Crom water wt I was nas W S ni nl II most mOlt at lit the Ihl boiling point und and un that thai dripped and lowed flowed through the II l ea In the ruck rack or of the mountain Further investigation ulio ed that t this bolting boiling water did nut um rum f m boding underground springs UK as might I haw have been On suspected su l at first On the contrary It came from the very ery er top tOil of the th mountain more than limn a I robe mil high Although It Il 1 I is so told cold up there that the peaks are covered with I Illi It II perpetual now snow and the water r Ton l Jh was as icy ley when It started l OH un its iti It R voyage Ute the pressure and friction Taus f a d dby dby by It Its percolation through feet pt of mountain mostly motU bed hell After Arter td hod of limestone made malle tho the water so o hot that tha I III It II was as ot ut the boiling point when It rea reached hed the borings boring Vetere the tunnel had been du dug dUK very fry far on the Italian side aids the bent hest become so ao Intense that It was not only Imos to work but actually to live Jive In It For a time It teemed seemed as a If the line Ine of ot the tunnel would have to lw be d but the clever engineer solved n the difficulty In a better betler way KY and they ac ar actually a WillY managed to snake make the hot w water its It own orn remedy They piped the mountain and anil soon they hid hall gallon gallone of steaming rimming hot hotter water ter flowing out of the south louth end Ind of ot I the tunnel every minute of oC the tiny day tIn and ond andul ul Hilt ht lt They hey this immense t flo note flow mm mu b before fore long lon they limy had hud It II driving refrigerating Malta 8 and nd blow blowers lira ers r So now no the he hot water that hail had to stop atop the tho work worle rl Is operating lilt ing machinery that blows cold call air Into places the Cho air Is too hot and cold water into places where hot drips drip or notes flow Today roday the temperature of ot the tunnel ban has liven been b reduced to n pleasant warmth equal to toline a aUna aline line Una gentle tiny day In ht June from a n tem tern temperature that List would have roasted a n titan man manin in In n a 1 minute or two Not 1001 with making the time hot un 11 ter tor provide ft nil Its own remedy the lie engirt engine eons ear have chained It to pneumatic drill drills and boring machines so that thal now nowa It a helps help to 10 dig lIff the tunnel im ns well welt The tunnel will wili be the great Nit Mt In lit world when It Il Is la completed It U will lj be 14 U miles littlest long mid and will cost coat nearly u a mile lillie |