Show 1 Highway Patrolmen j i Receive Praise I I A remarkable record of safe driving I has hns been established by the State High High- I j i I way Patrol during the tho seven en years of its I I existence During that time its mem them memI bers have traveled miles mUes' with only seven accidents an average of ot one each year Medical care or the payment of com com- compensation compensation was required in only four of the tho seven accidents according to a Q report today by R. R R W W. Groo Superintendent of or the Utah State Highway Patrol I Property damage as a Q result of the seven accidents totaled only 1750 and loss of time was 2352 hours I I During the tho seven years the patrol showed a total of man-hours man on the Job so BO the tho above loss represented about three-tenths three of ot one per cent I The Tho patrol made a 0 total of ar ar- ar arrests rests during the I seven year period in- in for speeding for tor drunken driving and for tor reckless driving I I More than 90 per cent complete I the Elton Tunnel being driven 1 from Tooele Tooele- valley to Bingham I Utah is now low on its final lap This bore which cuts under the I western range of the Oquirrh Iri mountains is being driven in an I effort to reclaim thousands of or tons I of it low grade ore that lies under underwater underwater water in the Bingham district and to prospect a vast expense of undeveloped un undeveloped developed territory The work is being conducted by bythe bythe bythe the National Tunnel Mines com com- company company pany a consolidation of the old Utah Apex Mining company and the Utah Delaware Mining company com com- company pany and is a subsidiary of the International Smelting Refining company The tunnel was started in June 1938 1933 and at the current rate of progress it should be completed and ready for use by midyear 1941 When completed it will connect with the Rood shaft shat of the Utah Apex Avex unit at a depth of 2500 feet teet about 1200 feet teet below the old water table r Driving of ot the tunnel Is not only being welcomed by people of Tooele as a mining project but as an agri cultural project as well The flow of or water developed in the tunnel i J f. f fis Jis is is furnishing a needed much stimulant s slant lant to the semiarid semi lands of ot p Tooele valley valle where agricultural j I production has languished during r the past quarter of a century f r The tunnel will extend 4 miles and Is expected to reduce the cost of mining a ton of ore by about so that a lower grade pro pro- product product product duct heretofore valueless can be mined The ore below the water was considered virtually valueless because it was too expensive to is t pump the water and hoist the ore ors and waste to the surface The tunnel tun tunnel nel nOel outlet will have cost when completed complete Soon It is hoped this dee dm development program pro am will unlock the ore reserves that have been held under the water table for tor perhaps millions of years and s a resource heretofore valueless will give powerful support to the In iTh Industrial life lite of the state for Cor many years to come P o Such Is modern mining goIng deeper deever and farther into the earth and mining lower and lower grads grade ores J |