| Show I 1 A COMBINED MINING AND FARMING PROJECT 77 Y k Z A ai 7 sy t M t 47 ar W v tz 4 ae A wel 1 0 N Z V 14 A V a T V Z n Y AT q 7 A T L v the accompanying views show the surface plant and the portal of the elton tunnel at thoele tooele utah which has rightfully been called a farming and mining project below the tunnel ties lies fertile tooele thoele valley where agricultural activities have been retarded due to the lack of adequate waier water the elton tunnel now in only ono one fourth of its total distance has developed a heavy flow of water which will be liquid gold to the potentially rich region below the tunnel plans are now being formulated tor for the establishment ot of small farmsteads on the hundreds of acres which Is now practically wasteland due to the lack of tut suf water it Is planned to subdivide the area into from two to three acre tracts tracts of land which will be sold to nine mine and smelter employees ns as well as farmers at a low cost already the national tunnel k minos mines company has expended expanded newly fit ii equipping and driving the tunnel thus tar far the portal of the tunnel Is situated just below the tooele thoele plant of the international smelting smelling Sm elting refining company and will be extended into tho the bingham district the total distance of the tunnel will be foot feet a little over 4 miles it will serve as a drainage and transportation tunnel eliminating much pumping and hoisting expense in mines of the tha bingham district which it will serve the tunnel will also be used as a transportation por tation unit tor for man who wort work in tho the bingham district I 1 it t la is expected that in many any will move from the contested con jested confines of bingham to beautiful tooele thoele valley ores from the national tunnel mines property in bingham are now hoisted to the surface and shipped by tramway to the tha smelter at tooele thoele the tunnel will tap the property at a depth of 2500 feet thereby eliminating much pump pumping ing and hoisting the tunnel will also develop nearly three miles of heretofore undeveloped mineral ground lying between tooele thoele and bingham bad and it la Is hoped that some new BOW resources will be added to the states X c Q k 11 R I 1 g g V X aa 1 N wealth when completed the tunnel will represent an investment of approximately all of which will have been spent on wages supplies and equipment the father of the project Is james 0 elton manager of the international smelting smelling Sm elting company a subsidiary of anaconda copper who has been successful la in developing many successful projects throughout utah and western united states it has always been hla his policy set get aside a large percentage of returns from producing mines tor for the development ot of now new projects elects pr |
