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Show MOUSE Dill TUNNEL Has Been Connected With Mines of Great Riches Denver. Nov. 19. With (he completion comple-tion of the Newhouso tunnel In tho Gilpin mining district and the connection connec-tion of the great El Paso mino with the Roosevelt draining tunnel at Cripple Crip-ple Creek. Colorado's mining industry ' yesterday received the greatest impetus im-petus of years. The Newhouso tunnel. 21.9CS foot. In length, will drain tho old bonanzas bonan-zas of Gilpin county to a depth of 1SU0 feet. At Cripple Creek, tho connection of the FJ Paso mine with tho Roosevelt tunnel marks the first step in tho wholesale unwaterlng of tho diutrlct which the drainage project is expected expect-ed to bring about. The Kl Paso mine, one of the big dividend payers of Cripple Creek rlis-ti rlis-ti let, was flooded to a. depth of over ion foot four years ago, when, what is presumed to be an underground stream, was released by tho mining operations. "When tho Roosevelt tun iicl was driven through. El Paso terrl- tory, nt a depth greater than Its deepest deep-est workings, operations were commenced com-menced to sink a well from the hot torn of the flood shaft to the. tunnel below. These operations were completed com-pleted yesterday, tho wnter pouring from tho mino into tho tunnel through a well six Inches lu diameter. The resulting flow at tho portal of the tunnel Is estimated at 2.000 gallons gal-lons a mlnuto and water is falling so rapidly in the mine that It Is expected ex-pected that it will be completely mi-watered mi-watered within 21 hours. Ore bodies estimated to carry' over a million dollars dol-lars worth of gold will bo immediately immediate-ly nvsllable for mining. Despite tho flow from the Kl Paso workings, progress continues on tno drainage tunnel, which has been driven driv-en steadily forward forty-one months and It Is expected that the main underground un-derground stream will be tapped with In a few 'days, with the consequent nnwaterlDg; of a largo portion of the district. |