The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-29

He then carefully applied the drill,
which noiselessly screwed its nose into
the rock. When it had sunk TO a depth
of a few inches he withdrew it, ana.
taking a hand drill capable of making a
hole not more than an eighth of an inch
in diameter. cautiously began boring in
the center OF the larger cavity He had
made hardly hundred turns of the
handle when the drill shot through the
rock. A gratified smile Illuminated his
features, and he said, in a suppressed
voice:
Don't be alarmed; I'm going TO put
out the light
Instantly we were in complete dark
ness. but being close at Hairs side I
could detect his movements. He pulled
out the drill. and for half a. minute
remained motiOniess as if listening.
There was no sound.
u must enlarge the opening - he
whispered, and Immediately the fainG
grating of a sharp tool cutting through
the rock informed me of his progress.
There" at last he said, Il think
that will do; now for look
I could tell that he had placed his
eye at the hole and was gazing with
breathless attention. Presently he
pulled my sleeve
Put your eye here" he whispered,
pushing me into the proper position for
looking through the hole.
At first 1 could discern nothing ex-
cept smoky blue glow. But soon my
vision cleared a little, and then 1 FER
ceived that 1 was gazing into a narrow
tunnel which met ours directly end to
end. CHANGING along the axis of this
gallery 1 saw, some 200 yards away. d
faint light, which evidently indicated
the mouth of the tunnel.
At the end where we had met it the
mysterious tunnel was consider
ably widened at one side. as if the ex-
caVators had started to change direc-
ton and then abandoned the work, and
in this elbow I could just see the out
lines of two or three fiat cars loaded
with broken stone, while a heap of the
same material lay near them. Through
the center of the tunnel ran a railway
track
DO you know what you are looking
att" asked Hall in my ear.
Il begin to suspect" I replied, that
you have accidentally run into DR..
Syx's mine"
If DR.. Syx had been on his guard
this accident wouldn't have happened -
replied Hall, with an almost inaudible
chuckle.
Il heard you remark a month ago" 1
said, that you were changing the di-
rectiOn of your tunnel. Has this been
the aim of your labors ever since?"
You have hit it," he replied Long
ago L became convinced that nv com
pany was throwing away its money in
vain attempt to strike a lode of pure
artemisium- But President Boon has
great faith in DR.. SyX, AID would not
give up the work. So I adopted what I
regarded as the only pra, teal method
OF proving the truth of my opinion and
saving the cOmpany's funds. An cleo
trio Indicator Of my invention enabled
me to locate the Syx tunnel when / got
near it, and i have met it end on and
opened this peep hole in order to OBJ
serve the doctors operations. l feel that
such spying is entirely justified in the
circumstances Although | cannot yet
explain just how, or why I feel sure
that Dr. SyX was the cause of the sud-
den discovery of the surface nuggets
and that he has encouraged the miners
for his own ends until he has brought
ruin to thousands who have spent their
last cent in driving useless tunnels into
this mountain. 1t is a righteous thing
to expose him.
But" I interposed, 81 do not see that
you have exposed anything yet except
the interior of a tunnel"
You Will see more clearly after a
while was the reply.
Hall now placed his eye again at the
aperture and was unable entirely TO
represS the exclamation that rose to his
AA1'S- AAC ACtAlc1Allcu staring through the
hole for several minutes without utter
ing word. Presently I noticed that
the lenses of his eye were Illuminated
by a ray of light coming through the
hole, but he did not stir
After a long inspection he suddenly
applied has ear to the hole. and listened
intently for at least five minutes. Not a
sound was audible to me- but. by an &C.
1 casiOnal pressure of the hand Hall sig
nified that some important disclosure
| was reaching his sense of hearing. Al
! length he removed his ear.