The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-12-29

be much bigger than an ordinary
street water malni
The other possibility was even less
hopeful. II was the driving OF snort
tunnel. which Daddy and | might UNI
dertake without additional help. from
the level of the high bench straight IN
10 an intersection with the mine SHAFT
This, I estimated, might tap the water
AT a point possibly twenty feet below
its present level in the shaft, Its sue
cess. as l saw at once would depehu
entirely upon the location and volume
Of the underground lake which was
supposed To be supplying the flood. IL
this reservoir we're shallow and high
In the mountain, the short tunnel
might drain IT, II Il were deep ana
low, nothing would be accomplished.
The question was stu hanging hope
lessly up In the air when ] made my
way around to the mine buildings by
the left-hand gulch path, sneaked In
and began TO shuck myself into Dad
dy's extra pair Of overalls; just for
what, hadn't the least idea; only |
needed to be dong something to keep
me from going completely dotty In the
guessing contest.
BY this time, as knew, they would
be getting up from breakfast In the
cabin across the dump head, which
would most likely be BullertOn's cue
10 come over and ride me some more.
When / looked out In sour antlcipa-
ton, here he came, smoking one OF his
hlgh-priced cigars and staggering n
DIT, as he always did In walking.
This Is your NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
day. Broughton," he tossed at me as
soon as he stepped over the threshold
OF the shaft house door; but fancied
l could notice that, some way. he
didn't seem quite so clipper and care
less as he had the day before.
"See here" ripped out; whats
the user You can't buy this mine at
any price! It's not in the market and
II isn't going to be. Not In thousand
yearsi"
"But see here; what's the use of
butting your head against stone wall
You're stuck, world without end, and
you know II. This flooded hole In the
ground Is OF no more use to you than
a pair Of spectacles to a blind man r.
Perhaps not; It's poor thing. but
mine own ! guess | can keep 1t as
a souvenir II feel like It, can't ~
"oh, hill" he grltted, and turning
on his heel went away.
After he had gone patted myself
on the back a bit for not losing my
temper and then, Just to have an ex-
cuse for staying away from the cabin
and the Fullerton vicinity, made fires
under the boilers and got up steam. In
the former pumping spasm Daddy and
! had operated only the two big cen.
trifugals, ignoring the deep-well pumps
designed TO lift the water from the
lower levels OF the mine.
Just to try something that we hadn't
tried before. got steam on the deem
wellers, and soon found that the
machinery, which we hadn't taken
down in the general overhaulIng.
needed unkering before II would be
safe to run H. Banking the boiler
nree, l went at the Job single handed
and Managed 10 wear cut the live,cne
day AZ II.
II took me all the afternoon and
then. some to get the machinery cleaned
and tinkered up and reassembied. In
paving over the supplies In the mine
storeroom--stutS left by the fermer ec-
erators-we had found an acety,ers
nara torch and can Of carbide and !
riEged the torch 80 that could 60 ON
working after dark.
II was along about nine o'clock when
1 got the deep-wells ready 10 run and
freshened up the Ares and turned the
steam on. In curious contrast TO the
care which had been taken to provide
discharge outlet for the eentrifus.Is
the Cornish pumps had merely an.Iror
trough which ran to a ditch LEADING
down to the bench below the mIne
buildings. After a few minutes of ths
eianking and banging. the water began
70 come II was horribly smelling
stun thick and dlscolored; evidences
SUFFICIENT that II was coming from the
bottom Of the mine. The two pumns
together were lifting about nm eight.
Inch stream, and II occurred to me a,
once that II could set the centrIfu.
gals going at the same time, the mass
attack might accomplish what rho
piece-meal assault couldn't
Throwing In the clutch that drovo
the Dig rotarles, ran up against what
Daddy would have called a "clrcnp,.
stance There wasn't power enough
to drive both sets OF pumps counted
In together; at least. not with the
steam pressure the boilers were car.
rying. Thinking to get more power nv
pushing the fires bit harder wen,
to the detached boiler room to stoke
up leaving the deep wells Changing
away In the shafthouse. I had AIRED
two OF the furnaces and was ar ,yorl,
on the third when a series OF grind.
ing era shes in the machinery sent me
lying to find out what was going
wrong. e"s
What was happenlng-wbat had al
ready happened-was a plenty A. 7
have said, the great Cornish 49,.