| Show tintic gintic drain tunnel Is immense undertaking T T api 14 4 I 1 A V t r A I 1 1 k V at t top TO buildings at entrance to the tunnel and the lie company compan s office VT bottom row of cottages for emi loees shoving astle 0 of o buildings building being erected also a picture of lie the company lodging house when uncle jesse knight un dercook the job of driving a drain tunnel from the goshen slope in to the ver heart of the tintic gintic mining district he bit ott off a pret ty big chunk but those who are best acquainted with the provo mining operator know that he will go through to the finish with this big undertaking and after all there are reasons to believe that it will in time become one of h s best paying enterprises of course it will mean several year s work woric perhaps ten or more but it Is quite probable that the tunnel will do more than drain the south end of the district to a depth of approximately 2200 feet it should cut important import nt ore de posits and with his usual tore fore sight mr knight has secured a vat tract of mineral land along the line of the tunnel in adal tion to this he has also secured lor for his drain tunnel corn com pany a few thousand acres cres of farming land which right now has little value but which can be M made ade exceptionally productive w with ith the use of water that is sure to be developed by driving this tunnel at the present time the tunnel is in a distance of about 1000 feet the work has not progressed very rapidly during the past six or eight months owing to the fact that the miners have been at work during the greater part 0 ol 01 f the time in boose formation where aundre hundreds of feet 0 a a stretch required require ailing md more re ra pid work will be pos possible gible when hard solid ack c Is isai and when tina ti bering e ng will not be b e necessary the tunnel is one of the larg est in the state and undoubtedly the largest in tintie being about 8 by 9 feet in the clear this will give ample space tor for two lines ot of track air line und space for a water line large enough to carry any flow of water that may be encountered electric power from the leres of the utah power co which were extended to that locality early in the year Is used in the operation of the machine drills and a water line was constructed several months olgo furnishing what water is needed tor for mining and culinary purposes the bui dings which the company ha hap already erected about a dozen in number are all sub stant stan lally dally built and no doubt form only the nucleus ot of a thriving lit he tle village which should spring up around the portal of the tunnel ownen AV fen a large low flow ot of water Is en C countered the tunnel is not making depth very rapidly but considerable wa ter will doubtless be developed in the first mile henry barney one ol 01 the old time mining operators of Is in charge ot of the work at the tintie drain tunnel he ile la is using two shifts and at present the tun nel is going ahead at the rate of 2 r teet feet per month the new company started out with a substantial sum of money and additional funds will be rals rats ed either through the sale of the stock of by levying assessments with the completion of the tun nel even though it should develop nothing more valuable than an immense flow of 0 water there will be a steady source of revenue from the mines which will be un watered |
