Show THE ONTARIO DRAIN RAI TUNNEL In ID company with with-Mr with Warren Smith one oDe of ot the employ I had the pleas pleas- pleasure pleasure ure of a ride through the the he Ontario tun tuo- tunnel tunnel nel Del a distance of at nearly Dearly three miles Before starting we changed our coats bats and shoes and donned ClouDed a rubber suit uit We got on the band cars can and aDd went through After going about a amile amile amile mile we could see aee the light of the mule muJe train of loaded oars care coming toward us u se we pulled our cars can off oft the track to let them pas pai We then continued on our way and aDd at last we got t tie trie end where we witnessed the work of drill drill drill- drilling drilling ing with the team steam drills the toe miners miner at work with the water dropping on 00 them continuously The work on the tu nel l was begun over six nix years year years a ago aio o They Tb y have hav bad considerable delay at ai tim through bad bail ground a as they term it the swell airell ng and heavy proc press pressure procure ure ot or the ground has n twisted twi c d au and broken n some of at the timbering which had to be replaced At one onetime on Ume they struck truck a w water course that sent nt cb th the rocks rock rocks flying in every vry direction an any Jaded the track with over a loot lout of wat water r They were obliged to run rUD II a adrift adrift drift or tunnel I on n each sl side e to run it oft off before the work could be continued During the six ix years yean work on the tunnel only one oDe man has bas been killed He was wae wa crushed by a large Jarge rook rock falling onto him while At t work down in the tU drain IIralo ditch which Jammed him against tie the track At one on time the ground caved cared and sUpped slipped d down with such Buch uch force torce as aa to carry the miners minera along through the tunnel a distance of or forty feet teet but luckily no on one was waa injured There is la still till about feet teet of tunnel tunnel- tunnelling tunnelling ling to be done before the work is ia com com- completed completed completed which will wUl take about a month when they expect to te tap the shaft ahalt OJ of the Ontario mine No 2 the i lover i over toNo to No t 8 This will be a great gr t saving aaring to the the company company the heavy heary expense of pumping the water out of the mines minel and as a the foreman treman said auld it will be a alease tease lease of ot life Ute for tor twenty five years yean to come for the Ontario On my way home I stopped oft off at Morgan where I found they have a creamery creamers and dairy established It is Ie In good goo running order and turns turna out aOne a first class article artier of butter and cheese Mr O 0 H Randall of Centerville is II isone iaone one of ot the proprietors and superintends dithe the work work-it work it Is ia called the 1 I X L LIbe the butter Is ia shipped by express every morning to Salt Bait Lake City where it finds a ready market ERNEST S B PEN PENROSE |