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Show The Earns fcmelmg Machine ; ; A V i ? 4 : -. ' A great deal has been said and written writ-ten within the past three years regarding regard-ing this wonderful invention, and the fact that the machine has reached the point where it is actually being installed in-stalled on contract works seenij to remove re-move all doubt of Its entire success. The Utah Karns and the J. P. Karns Tunnelling Machine companies have built to date, in their various experimental experi-mental work, four of these machines, and the last machine, which is six feet in diameter, is now being installed on 4,800 feet of tunnel work near Jamestown, James-town, Pa., and will be running on that contract in the very near future. At a recent test of this six-foot machine, ma-chine, Mr. Karns. the inventor, drove the machine C20 blows per minute with an eight-inch stroke, striking a 15,000-pound 15,000-pound blow at each strike with 500 chisel points, and its execution in hard granite was something marvelous. It Is claimed by the promoters of this enterprise that the machine will easily maintain a speed of I. COO feet pr f I month and, from the-work dime so far. this claim appears tn be perfectly rtu- ' I sonable. This invention, like all ther :n;-: tions of a revolutionary character, -.-a . "J had but few supporters, and for tint reason all the more credit is due to t'r men who, regardless of a skeptical public, pub-lic, have perfected this wonderful r.n-chine. r.n-chine. Its history from an investment standpoint has been similar to the tele- , phone and other like inventions. vhos stock was being hawked around the f streets at most any price until the pub- He finally realized the fact that the inventor's in-ventor's dream was a reality and all s the stockholders realized large profits from the quick advance of the stock. The Utah Karns Tunnelling Machine company is rapidly getting" in shape for actual work and will soon be closing contracts for tunnel work with these machines. The Salt Lake offices are at 714-715 Newhouse building. |