The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-19
GREAT TUNNEL
FOR ALTA CAMP
West Columbus Company'S
New Manager lnaugurateS
important Work.
OUTLET FOR MANY MINES
CLEAR THROUGH TO AMERICAN
FORK CANYON.

Big things for the company arc being
MANNED by 4. Q. Jacobson, the new
manager of the West Columbus COM
pany's properties at Alta. During the
short time that he has been in charge
he has taken hold Or the work that was
tagging under his predecessor and
things will hum from now on. Mr.. ia
cobson, accompanied by Mrs. jacobson,
left for Kansas City and Chicago yes
terday. Mr.. Jacobson is delegate from
this state to the trans Mississippi con-
gress. Before pulling out he said:
1.-THE West Columbus company is well
fixed financially and the directors have
given me carte blanche in the handling
of the property and the funds provided
for its development. l now have the
new boarding and lodging house and
other buildings we'll under way and all
of the material with which to complete
them is on the ground. have decided
TO run a new tunnel and the ground is
now being faced up for the start This
tunnel will be the largest and best In
camp of Alta, 7xS feet in the clear.
The mouth of this tunnel will be
about one and one-half miles below the
Columbus Consolidated, and I am plan
ming TO make of it the most important
enterprise launched in Alta for a long
time. Besides developing the West CO.
lumbus property at fine depth, the tun-
mel is designed to eventually reach en-
tirely through the divide to American
Fork canyon
Other Companies Will Join.
an its prosecution 1 am figuring on
IL. Il
panies which will be able to utilize it in
the development of their own properties
at great depth and at the same time
give them an admirable outlet for their
ores. That is why the tunnel will be
eight feet wide in the bottom and seven
feet high.
ION the Alta side the mines adjoining
the West Columbus in all directions
will be benefited by this tunnel. The
Pittsburg, Quincy and other South Co
lumbus Consolidated ground, the AL
bion, Pioneer, in fact, all the properties
along the divide between Little and Big
Cottonwood can get the benefit of this
large deep tunnel, as it will be run in
the right direction to drain and develop
their properties at depth and permit
economical prospecting. If we all go in
together the cost will be burdensome
on no one BY and by l shall take this
matter uB Will iflt uAntleill NOtil pdlIlCS
and, as soon as an understanding can
be reached. 1 shall arrange for the in
stallation of a big power plant to facili-
tate the work"
Knows Value of Work.
Mr.. Jacobson, who ST also superin-
tendent of the Columbus Consolidated
cOmpany's mines, knows the value of
this work better than most any man in
the district and he of all others, is the
one man to carry it through. He knows
the country and knows what il Will cost
10 do IT. and he also knows pretty well
where the benefits to the companies
named, to say nothing Of those on the
American Fork side, are to come from.
Saturday afternoon, when he heard
frcm camp and the Columbus Consoli-
dated power plant, he was informed
that the snowstorm had been heavy
enough to make sleighing good all the
way down the canyon. This is what
Ore-haulers have been waiting for since
the recent transforms cut the roads all
TO pieces. The output of the Columbus
Consolidated Will now be just about
doubled.