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Show GHOST TUNNELS !-. ' : ' - 'U 4 j r - t - i - ; ; I Much has been written and said about "Ghost Towns", but little has been said about "Ghost Tunnels." Ghost tunnels make ghost towns. If a tunnel does not lead to ore, or the ore in the face of the tunnel tun-nel gives out then the tunnel is abandoned and becomes but a ghost of the past. . The miner in the above photograph photo-graph is trudging back to the face of the drift with an empty car. Will he come back with ore or waste? That is the eternal question of the miner. Even if ore is found, it does not last fo'rever. Utah is fortunate in having few ghost towns. True, the state has hundreds of miles of ghost tunnels, tun-nels, but most of the old mining districts that were discovered during dur-ing the early days are still producing. pro-ducing. This is due to the system atic and sound foundation upon which the industry was built in Utah. The state's resources have not been subjected to the boom type of mining, the type where r' 'h ore bodies were gutted and the ground abandoned without proper development develop-ment work. Mines here have been developed by pioneers, whose thought was to build something for the future. A systematic policy of mining was adopted in the early days and is still in force. A part of the revenue rev-enue from every ore body is set aside for research and development so that new ore bodies can and will be developed. That is the reason that mining here has grown from a small beginning begin-ning to the greatest industry in the state. |
