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Show BUTTERFIELD TUNNEL GOES AHEAD Axel Rhodes who has charge of the development work at the Butterfield Tunnel for the United Uni-ted States Mining Co. was in camp this week and reports excellent ex-cellent progress in the clearing up of the tunnel. From 18 to 20 men are being employed and about 75 feet a day is the average aver-age clean-up by this number of men, besides cleaning up the badly caven parts of the drift a new track and air-line is being be-ing installed. The total length of the tunnel to the face of the drift is 8,800 feet and over 5,000 feet of that work ha3 already al-ready been accomplished since operations commenced some six months ago, in that time a new air-compressor has been installed install-ed and a bunk house and all the necessary offices have been built together with the work done in the tunnel. |