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Show Putting Metal Into The Ground J. f : ' ' L i ' V i f ' .. i.-.-. " ; , fSs- : i . -V i " i v- '' ; - . : .. " ' i t " - : ' ; ' - A ' ! i ;-": 'T? w r y m-JLL'.l.Xi,t- ,M',.JUmi it .,,. a. i T inn, i-r m ia inial) Miner not only take metal out of the ground they also put metal into the ground. I i The above photograph shows a miner at the Eureka Standard mine , in the Tintic District placing a "nipper" on steel ties which brace steel rails 1100 feet under the surface sur-face of the ground. Each year hundreds hun-dreds of miles of underground track, airlines and pipelines are installed underground. Much of this equipment equip-ment never comes to the surface again. Sometimes this steel and Iron follows fol-lows the miner to an orebody and is used for years. Sometimes It follows the miner to a blank wall. But this is the manner In which mines are made, from which great industries for the state are built The installations that go underground under-ground are only a small percentage J of the total expense necessary in opening a mine. The man In the picture gives an idea of the size of the tunnel, and from the mine car In. the background It can readily be seen that it was necessary to hoist thousands of cars of waste material in driving this tunnel, which extends ex-tends several hundred feet. This remarkably clear underground under-ground photo also brings out other important mining points. It illustrates illus-trates conditions under which men work in many of the properties and how precautions are taken to insure maximum safety by the Installation of huge timbers where necessary. After this tunnel reached Its objective, ob-jective, the work could not stop I there. More tunnel had to be driven ; on this and other levels in order to open up additional ore bodies and I perpetuate the life of the mine. |