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El Paso Drainage Tunnel [aka Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel]
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Article
Info Source From:
The Engineering Record. Volume: 46 [XLVI], Issue No. 18
Info Publication Date:
November 1, 1902
Info found on page:
428
Info Title:
Drainage Tunnel Recommended
Colorado Springs, Colo.—The Special Drainage Com. has reported at a recent meeting of the operators of Cripple Creek Dist., recommending the construction of a tunnel, not to exceed 10,000 ft. in length, to drain the mines of Cripple Creek Dist.
graphic for visual presentation of text Sherwood Aldrich, Chmn. of Com.
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The Engineering Record. Volume: 46 [XLVI], Issue No. 23
Info Publication Date:
December 6, 1902
Info found on page:
547
Info Title:
El Paso Tunnel Plan Adopted
Colorado Springs, Colo.—The special water committee appointed to arrange some plan of unwatering the Cripple Creek district is reported to have adopted a plan known as the El Paso tunnel, and estimated to cost between $80,000 and $100,000.
graphic for visual presentation of text Sherwood Aldrich is Chmn. of Com.
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The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 75 [LXXV], Issue No. 3
Info Publication Date:
January 17, 1903
Info found on page:
110
Info Title:
Drainage Adit for Cripple Creek
The Engineering and Mining Journal - January 17, 1903
(page 110)

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THE DRAINAGE ADIT FOR CRIPPLE CREEK.

In the infancy of its development Cripple Creek was considered a very dry district, water had to be transported for boiler use and the few insignificant streams of the region did not suffice to supply the early stampmills.

View at water running down from the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel.
View flow of water from the Roosevelt Tunnel.

In shaft-sinking water was soon encountered, at varying depths, usually about 350 feet below the surface, and as development progressed it was found, from the records of the first five wet mines, that the water level was at a horizon which stood about 9,500 feet above sea level. The drainage of the district by adits, penetrating the veins at successively lower levels, together with continuous pumping, on the part of mines which went down independently of the adits, has lowered the ground water to the extent of 500 feet below the original level.

Mr. S. W. Mudd, who made a careful investigation of the problem in behalf of the Elkton Company, concluded that the water now being pumped is being drawn from vast accumulations underground, rather than due to a steady inflow from the surface at more or less distant points. He considered that the data obtainable indicate that a depth has been reached where the accumulated water is becoming decidedly less in amount and he estimated that the flow has decreased from 107,000,000 gallons per vertical foot to 44,000,000.

He recommended a drainage adit, planned so as to tap the water zone and render further deep explorations possible without the incubus of heavy pumping costs. This recommendation is to be put into effect. We note the fact with pleasure, for it will most assuredly give a stimulus to the further development of a great gold-field.

The careful study of the water problem, which resulted from the unsuccessful attempt of the Elkton Company single-handed to lower the water level, developed the important fact that at the present time the water in the Cripple Creek region is uniform over a-very considerable area, its level being 9,042 feet above sea level, or about 15 feet below Elkton's 700 foot level. This drainage basin comprises Beacon, Raven and Gold Hill. The Isabella property and the northeastern part of the district generally, as well as some portions of the southeastern areas—certainly the Gold Coin Mine—seem to be in a different basin, which doubtless includes the Vindicator, Golden Cycle, Independence Consolidated and other ground on the eastern slopes of Bull Hill proper.

The tunnel which is about to be begun will have its entrance near the junction of Arequa Gulch and Cripple Creek, and will be driven in a northeasterly direction to connect with the southern sixth level of the El Paso Mine, a distance of about 4,000 feet. From this point it will be continued, through the granite, for a further distance of from 2,000 to 2,300 feet in the same general direction, until it penetrates the eruptive area where one of the main watercourses will be cut.

It is proposed to drive the tunnel from five headings—two in the El Paso workings, two in the shaft which will be sunk about midway and one at the entrance. It is believed that six months will complete the work, though we understand that the contract limit is eight months. The level of the tunnel will be about 235 feet below the present water level. If the main watercourses are found to be connected at this horizon, of which there can be little doubt, it is reasonable to expect that the water during the present year will be materially lowered over an area extending from the Gold King on the north to El Paso and Elkton on the south, and that ultimately this level will be lowered fully 235 feet. It is also quite possible that the influence of this tunnel will extend beyond the limits of the area indicated, though it may be exerted more slowly.

Estimates of cost are in the neighborhood of $80,000, and this amount has been subscribed, largely by the principal companies to be benefited, although we believe that the railroads, smelting and reduction works and other collateral interests have also assisted. That this enterprise marks a new era for Cripple Creek we certainly believe. It is a pity it was not done sooner, as suggested by several representative mining engineers at least four or five years ago, but, of course, at that time the work was not such an obvious necessity as it is now and when mines are in bonanza their owners are apt to be satisfied with conditions as they find them.

The Sutro Tunnel was too late for the Comstock—for the ore, if not for the water; the Newhouse tunnel would have fared better if it had been started ten years sooner and the drainage adit planned by Mr. Wm. Byrd Page for Leadville, in 1891, was unfortunately never undertaken, so that in each of these three instances important mining regions suffered from that procrastination which is often fatal to mining operations. Cripple Creek, luckily, is still vigorous and though it has passed the flush of exuberant youth it bears the promise of a steady and vigorous productiveness which will derive an invaluable aid from the engineering undertaking which we have been discussing.

May it prosper.

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General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 75 [LXXV], Issue No. 3
Info Publication Date:
January 17, 1903
Info found on page:
131
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Work Has Started
El Paso Drainage Tunnel.—Work has started on this tunnel, which has its portal in Cripple Creek Canyon, a short distance above the Gold & Globe Mill, and when completed to the El Paso Mine, will be a little over 4,000 ft. long.
graphic for visual presentation of text The tunnel will be 6½by 4½ ft. in the clear, and will be driven from several headings. It will cut the El Paso shaft at its lowest level, 600 ft., and the Elkton, when reached at 910 ft. It is thought by many mining men that it will not be necessary to run it to the Elkton to drain that property. The tunnel is being put through by several mining companies that own property in the vicinity.
graphic for visual presentation of text The contract was let to the El Paso Company, and it is understood that a provision calls for completion within 7 months. This is a decided step toward the drainage of the district, and will give at least temporary relief to some mines. A number of other drainage projects are being looked into.
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Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 75 [LXXV], Issue No. 5
Info Publication Date:
January 31, 1903
Info found on page:
198
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Work
Work is being pushed on the El Paso drainage tunnel.
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Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 75 [LXXV], Issue No. 9
Info Publication Date:
February 28, 1903
Info found on page:
345
Info Title:
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel News
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel—Work is progressing favorably from several headings. The lenght of the tunnel will be a little over 4000 ft. and the time estimated to complete it to the El Paso shaft is 7 months.
graphic for visual presentation of text It will probably be driven within that time. The El Paso Company has the contract.
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Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 75 [LXXV], Issue No. 15
Info Publication Date:
April 11, 1903
Info found on page:
574
Info Title:
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel Work
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel.—Work is being pushed, and it looks as the tunnel would be finished before the time called for by the contract. In March the 3 headings were down 746 ft., an average of about 25 ft. per day. By working in all the headings at once an average of 30 ft. per day can be made.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 2
Info Publication Date:
April 11, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Progressing
The regular monthly report on the progress of the tunnel being driven by the El Paso Gold Mining Company for the purpose of draining the mines of the western portion of the camp, will be received this week by the company.
graphic for visual presentation of text The progress during March is said to have been greater than at any time since the tunnel was started. The El Paso people expect to have the tunnel completed several days ahead of the schedule unless some unforeseen accident occurs to delay the work.
graphic for visual presentation of text The contract calls for the completion of the work by August 28th.
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Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 75 [LXXV], Issue No. 17
Info Publication Date:
April 25, 1903
Info found on page:
646
Info Title:
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel Legal Stuff
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel.—A temporary injunction has been issued restraining this tunnel from crossing the Grace Arthur Extension lode claim. The suit was brought by the Cripple Creek Tunnel, Transportation and Mining Company, which owns the Standard Tunnel and the Grace Arthur Extension claim. It has a contract with El Paso Company, by which the latter company agrees to pay the Standard certain sums for drainage. Should the new tunnel be completed it will render the Standard Tunnel valueless, hence the injunction. The injunction has no present effect on the work, since the tunnel has not reached the claim in controversy.
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General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 75 [LXXV], Issue No. 18
Info Publication Date:
May 2, 1903
Info found on page:
684
Info Title:
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel Still Working
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel.—Work is still progressing in spite of the fact that an injunction has been applied for by the Grace Arthur Extension. At present the tunnel is worked from five headings, and good progress made. The El Paso Company has the contract to construct the tunnel.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 5
Info Publication Date:
May 2, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
Mary McKinney Gold Mining Co. Awaits El Paso Drainage Tunnel Reliefs
An officer of the Mary McKinney Gold Mining Company stated this week that there are two and a half years' dividends in the sixth level of that mine which will be rendered available as soon as the workings are opened by the drainage tunnel.
graphic for visual presentation of text It is believed that as much more ore will be found in the seventh level, which will be opened immediately after the sixth.
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General Mining News
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 5
Info Publication Date:
May 2, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
Cripple Creek District Up to Date; Drainage Tunnel Hopes
Operations on quite a number of the largest properties in Cripple Creek are being delayed pending the completion of the drainage tunnel. As in nearly all other mining camps, water in large amounts was reached with increasing depth, and pumping became very expensive.
graphic for visual presentation of text Accordingly the present tunnel was planned and is now making rapid progress. It is not one-third completed and at the present rate of progress it will be finished about August 1st next. Upon, its completion work on the larger properties will be resumed with a larger force than ever before and with indications of better financial returns, since the cost of pumping will then be eliminated.
graphic for visual presentation of text In some of the larger properties this amounts to as much as $12,000 per month, which is sufficient in itself to pay a monthly dividend of 1 per cent, upon the usual capitalization. This will also probably have the effect of enabling some of the smaller companies to pay dividends, this having been prevented heretofore by the presence of water.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 11
Info Publication Date:
June 13, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Expected Completed Aug/Sep.
Official announcement has just been made by Superintendent Bainbridge, of the drainage tunnel, that the bore will be completed between August 30 and September 1 next.
graphic for visual presentation of text This announcement is very gratifying to mine owners whose property will be tapped by this tunnel.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 14
Info Publication Date:
July 4, 1903
Info found on page:
3
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Will Help Deep Mining
As soon as the drainage tunnel is completed, the work of sinking the different shafts on the west slope of Beacon hill will be started up vigorously. The El Paso shaft is to be put down to the 1000 foot point.
graphic for visual presentation of text The work of sinking will also be resumed on the Mary McKinney, the Elkton and the Doctor-Jack pot, when the tunnel is completed to those points.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 17
Info Publication Date:
July 25, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Expected to Impact Elkton Soon
One of the many instances of what the drainage tunnel may do for the Cripple Creek district is afforded in an examination of the conditions in the property of the Elkton company. In this property, aside from shoots of ordinary size and value, there stands one great bank of ore that rivals in width some of the largest deposits in the district. The ore body is approximately 100 feet wide and 200 feet long, but its bulk lies below the present water level so that its extraction cannot begin until the effect of the drainage tunnel is felt. Its value however, has been frequently tested and in a general way, it would sell for $20 in gold to the ton. It is now believed that the drainage tunnel will be completed in thirty days from date.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 20
Info Publication Date:
August 15, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel July 1903 Work
The official measurements of the El Paso drainage tunnel for the work done during the month of July, indicate that 782 feet of work were done. The remaining ground to be traversed amounts to several hundred feet, and if nothing unforeseen happens, this will be accomplished by August 15.
graphic for visual presentation of text So far, good fortune has attended the project and it is fair to suppose that the tunnel will be completed on schedule time.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 24
Info Publication Date:
September 12, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel To Open Waterflow
Water will be running through the Cripple Creek drainage tunnel within the next two or three days. The last shots necessary to penetrate the last strata of rock were placed Sept. 2.
graphic for visual presentation of text All that now remains to be done is to remove the track from the floor of the tunnel and shoot away the bulkheads which have kept the water in check.
graphic for visual presentation of text This will be done immediately and a large number of the mines which have been flooded will be relieved. The tunnel is 4,074 feet long and was begun January 25 last.
graphic for visual presentation of text Its completion is believed to mark a more productive epoch in the history of the Cripple Creek district.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 25
Info Publication Date:
September 19, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Opened
The most important event in Cripple Creek district, mining circles during the past week was the completion and opening of the El Paso drainage tunnel, which is now draining the mines in the western section of the camp to a depth of 250 feet below the present water level.
graphic for visual presentation of text When the valves in the bulkheads which held the water in check, were opened, water to the extent of 4,000 gallons per minute flowed from the mouth of the tunnel.
graphic for visual presentation of text The tunnel was commenced January last, and it has taken eight months of unceasing work to complete it, to say nothing of the immense amount of money expended.
graphic for visual presentation of text It will relieve immediately some ot the heavy producers of the camp.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 26
Info Publication Date:
September 26, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Drains Over 5,500 Gallons of Water Per Minute
The El Paso drainage tunnel is now throwing into the stream of Cripple Creek over 5,500 gallons of water per minute. Nearly all the mines in the north end of the camp have felt the result of the pulling of the bulkheads in the tunnel a week ago.
graphic for visual presentation of text The water has receded three feet in the Elkton, and all of the properties find that their upper workings are becoming dryer.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 28
Info Publication Date:
October 10, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Doing Its Job
Water is steadily subsiding in the several properties of the Cripple Creek district where it was early assumed that effects would first be felt. Reports of substantial gains continue to come from the Elkton and Mary McKinney mines, the chief indicators at this time of the falling level.
graphic for visual presentation of text Up to last Sunday there had been a fall of about one foot for the week at the Elkton, which is the general average each week for this property.
graphic for visual presentation of text At the Mary McKinney the fall recorded was ten inches for the week.
graphic for visual presentation of text This makes the total fall at this time about five feet, while at the Elkton it is approximately four feet. The bottom levels of the El Paso and C. K. & N. mines are dry.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 30
Info Publication Date:
October 24, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Impacts in District
The beneficial effects of the drainage tunnel are being felt in every mine in the Cripple Creek district previously hampered by water.
graphic for visual presentation of textThe El Paso, the first mine to reap the benefit from its direct connection with the big bore, is dry and sinking will resume shortly.
graphic for visual presentation of textThe same may be said of the C. K. & N. and other Beacon hill properties.
graphic for visual presentation of textFarther to the north, in the Elkton, Mary McKinney and as far away as the El Paso Gold King in Poverty Gulch, the water has fallen at the rate of from four to five feet per month.
graphic for visual presentation of textIn the Ajax, Gold Coin and other Battle mountain properties the water level is gradually falling.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 31
Info Publication Date:
October 31, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Helps Beacon Hill Producing Again
With the El Paso, C. K. & N., Old Gold, Henry Adney and Little Bessie properties hoisting ore again, the west slope of Beacon Hill shows considerable more activity than it has for sometime past.
graphic for visual presentation of text Since the completion of the drainage tunnel, properties on this hill have taken a new lease on life. Six cars of ore are being loaded from this side of the hill, most of it of smelting grade.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 35
Info Publication Date:
November 28, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Working as Wanted
A large number of mining properties in the Cripple Creek district are feeling the result of the opening of the drainage tunnel by a very noticeable decrease in their water lines.
graphic for visual presentation of textThe water in the Elkton and Mary McKinney properties is receding at the rate of five feet per month.
graphic for visual presentation of textThe water level in the American Eagle and Ajax properties on Battle mountain is also being lowered at about the same rate.
graphic for visual presentation of text Nearly every property in the western section of the camp is feeling the beneficial effect of the drainage tunnel, while the mines on Beacon hill have been drained entirely.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 36
Info Publication Date:
December 5, 1903
Info found on page:
4
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Continues Its Important Work
The water flow from the Cripple Creek drainage tunnel has been doubled within the last few days and is running from the portal in a volume of 1200 gallons per minute greater than at any time in its history.
graphic for visual presentation of text While advancing the east heading last week, a channel was cut that contributed 500 gallons per minute. Successive advancement added more of the element and the other day a round of shots allowed another flow to escape.
graphic for visual presentation of text The last stream brings the total flow from this heading up to 1500 gallons, and the total flow from the portal up to 3000 gallons per minute.
graphic for visual presentation of text The development of this last flow completes the contract of the El Paso company but not of the tunnel company, which will continue to bore as long as conditions warrant.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 37
Info Publication Date:
December 12, 1903
Info found on page:
4
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Drained 650,000,000 Gallons
The effects of the El Paso drainage tunnel have now reached such a state that the gentlemen who were instrumental in driving the bore are being complimented for their foresight. When the water measurements were taken last week, it was found that there has been a fall of eleven feet in the water area of the district, which means that 650,000,000 gallons of water has flowed through the tunnel since it was opened. Water is flowing at the present time at a rate that is lowering the water about eight feet per month, but as the flow is increasing steadily, the water level will recede much more rapidly.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 38
Info Publication Date:
December 19, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Drains Rapidly
Another measurement of the flow of water from the El Paso drainage tunnel made last week confirms an early statement of Engineer Jasquith that 5,000 gallons a minute was pouring from the portal.
graphic for visual presentation of text The flow is something enormous and all the mines in the north end are being unwatered at a rapid rate. The Mary McKinny and Elkton will shortly be able to work in their lower levels.
graphic for visual presentation of text The increased flow was caused by the driving of the east lateral toward the Elkton property. So rapidly did the water pour through this lateral that the men found it impossible to work.
graphic for visual presentation of text There is being discharged at the present time approximately 300,000 gallons per hour, or the enormous total of 7,200,000 gallons every 24 hours.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 39
Info Publication Date:
December 26, 1903
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
El Paso Gold King To Resume Operation Thanks to Drainage Tunnel
The El Paso Gold King, the oldest mine in the camp, from which enormous quantities of ore has been shipped, is among the companies about to resume operations.
graphic for visual presentation of text When the mine closed down, there was over 80 feet of water in the shaft. About half this amount has been drained off since the completion of the tunnel, and the remainder is being lowered rapidly.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 41
Info Publication Date:
January 9, 1904
Info found on page:
4
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Faces Water Issues
So heavy has the flow become from the face of the east heading of the El Paso drainage tunnel that little progress can be made by the miners. The condition has lead to the belief that a large channel is about to be cut within the next fifty feet of work. So strong has been the flow, that it required the strength of three men to push an empty car against the current.
graphic for visual presentation of text The drainage tunnel is certainly doing well the work for which it was constructed.
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The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 77 [LXXVII]
Info Publication Date:
January 14, 1904
Info found on page:
96
Info Title:
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel Water Flow
The measurements for December by Engineer Jacquith shows that the water was lowered 10,5 ft. during the month, making the water level 8,998 ft. above sea-level. When the water was tapped it was standing at 9.026 ft., or 15 ft. below the standard tunnel level.
graphic for visual presentation of text At the rate the water is receding, the Elkton Co. will begin work on the eighth level about May 1. The flow through the tunnel is about 5,200 gal. per minute.
graphic for visual presentation of text The total output of ore from all the Elkton properties for December was 4,700 tons.
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Mining Reporter. Volume: 49 [XLIX], Issue No. 2
Info Publication Date:
January 14, 1904
Info found on page:
44
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El Paso Drainage Tunnel Flow
El Paso Drainage Tunnel.—Recent measurements show that the flow of water from the El Paso drainage tunnel a few days ago was about 5,100 gallons per minute. There is a slight tendency to increase, on account of the new channels being opened as the work advances in one direction.
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Mining Reporter. Volume: 49 [XLIX], Issue No. 4
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January 28, 1904
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95
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnels Drains On
El Paso Drainage Tunnel.—According to Engineer Jacquith, the flow from the drainage tunnel one day last week was at the rate of 6,185 gallons per minute. This is a slight increase over the preceding weeks.
graphic for visual presentation of textRecords kept at the Mary McKinney mine since the channel was cut by the drainage tunnel on September 6th last, show that the water level has lowered twenty-two feet. The fall for the week ending January 16th being about twenty inches.
graphic for visual presentation of textAt the Elkton the drop ranges from four and one half feet to ten and one-half feet a week.
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Mining Reporter. Volume: 49 [XLIX], Issue No. 7
Info Publication Date:
February 18, 1904
Info found on page:
175
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Flow Info
El Paso Drainage Tunnel.—The flow from this tunnel, which is now in about 6,000 feet, has been ranging lately in the neighborhood of 6,500 gallons a minute.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 48
Info Publication Date:
February 27, 1904
Info found on page:
4
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Might Be Extended
At the present time considerable talk is being indulged in by mine owners regarding the extension of the El Paso drainage tunnel. The tunnel is now in about 6,500 feet and is discharging water at the rate of 6,500 gallons per minute.
graphic for visual presentation of text It will perhaps be necessary to vary the course and drive it fully another mile before it will have the desired effect on the mines of Bull hill, which is its objective point.
graphic for visual presentation of text Should the tunnel be continued in this direction, the Findley, Golden Cycle, Hull City Placer, Last Dollar and many other mines would be drained to a depth of 1800 feet.
graphic for visual presentation of text All the above named properties are dividend payers.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 4 [IV], Issue No. 2
Info Publication Date:
April 9, 1904
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4
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Mary McKinney Shaft Water Receding Almost 2 Feet a Week
The water in the shaft of the Mary McKinney property is now receding at the rate of two feet per week, due entirely to the El Paso drainage tunnel. Within the next month the company will have drained all the water from the sixth level in which good ore bodies are known to exist.
graphic for visual presentation of text This company is making an excellent showing in its upper levels and an increase in the dividend rate is predicted for the near future.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 4 [IV], Issue No. 3
Info Publication Date:
April 16, 1904
Info found on page:
4
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El Paso Drainage Tunnel Discharge 6,870 Gallons of Water Per Minute
From the El Paso drainage tunnel according to measurements just taken, there is being discharged 6,870 gallons of water per minute, which is 200 gallons per minute more than the measurements taken a week ago, and is the greatest amount since the tunnel was opened up.
graphic for visual presentation of text At the present time 50 feet of water has been drained from the Elkton, Mary McKinley and other mines. Measurements taken in the first two mines named show that the water is lowering at the rate of about ten feet per month, and it will not be long until these two companies will be able to get into their lower workings and mine the exceptionally rich ore which is known to exist there.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 4 [IV], Issue No. 6
Info Publication Date:
May 7, 1904
Info found on page:
4
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Drained Portland
That the drainage tunnel is affecting all the mines in the western section of the camp is evidenced by the fact that the water has disappeared from the Portland mine, and that company has not been pumping for about two weeks. The same will soon be true of other mines.
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The Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 88 [LXXXVIII]
Info Publication Date:
May 14, 1904
Info found on page:
336
Info Title:
Elkton Mine Soon to Get Into Lower Levels
By June 1 the Elkton management at Cripple Creek expects to be able to get into the lower levels and begin mining there. There is only about 10 feet of water in the mine at present, the El Paso tunnel having unwatered it to this depth. The water is receding at the rate of 2 feet per week.
graphic for visual presentation of text The Elkton is making weekly shipments of fair grade of ore, but as soon as the miners can get into the lower workings the output will be increased and the values will also increase
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The Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 88 [LXXXVIII]
Info Publication Date:
May 14, 1904
Info found on page:
336
Info Title:
Mary McKinney Working the Bottom
The Mary McKinney has men in its lower workings and ore is being hoisted and shipped from the bottom of the mine. The Mary McKinney, while greatly assisted by the El Paso tunnel, hurried the unwatering of the property by pumping.
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The Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 88 [LXXXVIII]
Info Publication Date:
May 14, 1904
Info found on page:
336
Info Title:
El Paso Tunnel Related
Many mines in the north end have already been unwatered, and nearly all that were affected at a depth of 600 feet have been unwatered by the tunnel.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 4 [IV], Issue No. 10
Info Publication Date:
June 4, 1904
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9
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Helps District Mines
Two reasons for the belief that the Cripple Creek district, one of Colorado's most famous sections, is entering upon an era of unexampled prosperity, and the mines of the district upon a new era of development, are seen in the wonderful discoveries of new ore bodies, and in the unwatering of 250 feet additional depth in the great mines by the operation of the recently completed drainage tunnel.
graphic for visual presentation of text This tunnel is carrying off between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 gallons of water per day. draining six inches of depth over the entire district, each 24 hours.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 4 [IV], Issue No. 10
Info Publication Date:
June 4, 1904
Info found on page:
9
Info Title:
District Production Increasing Thanks to El Paso Tunnel
For several months the production has been steadily increasing. Last month the value of the output from the Cripple Creek district was $1,850,000, the greatest output in one month for over one year. This increase in production is in part owing to the fact that the water level is being steadily lowered by the operation of the drainage tunnel, and properties which were forced to close down on account of water are one by one resuming work. This is true of many of the prospect companies as well as of the producing mines.
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Mining Reporter. Volume: 50 [L], Issue No. 16
Info Publication Date:
October 20, 1904
Info found on page:
420
Info Title:
Drainage Tunnels Talk
Drainage Tunnels.—There is now running from the El Paso drainage tunnel 4,350 gallons of water per minute, nearly 2,000 gallons less than when the tunnel was completed.
graphic for visual presentation of text Mr. Jacquith believes that the same proposition that confronted the mine owners on Raven and Beacon hills now confronts the mine owners who own property on the south slope of Bull hill.
graphic for visual presentation of text The driving of a tunnel on the south slope of Bull hill, however, will be far more costly and a much more extensive engineering problem than the El Paso.
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PROFITS; A Journal of Finance and Mining Worth While. Volume: 4 [IV], Issue No. 32
Info Publication Date:
November 5, 1904
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5
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Drains at the Rate of 47,000 Gallons Per Minute
Colorado Springs, Nov. 2. The water level of the district is now standing at an elevation of 8932 feet above sea level, and flowing from the portal of the El Paso drainage tunnel at the rate of 47,000 gallons per minute. Since the water course was tapped by the drainage tunnel a little over a year ago the water has reached a total of 90 feet. At the Elkton, where close tab has been kept on it, the water now stands at a point nineteen feet below the eighth level.
graphic for visual presentation of text The effects of the drainage tunnel have been felt in more ways than one. It is now possible for companies to sink and procure additional stoping ground at a profit, besides allowing them to open up additional ground and make the ore bodies deeper. The beneficial results of the tunnel have been demonstrated, and have helped all the mines of the district with the exception of a few located around Independence and Goldfield, all the rest being connected with the great water course that is now flowing through the portal of the drainage tunnel.
graphic for visual presentation of text Observations made by the chief engineer, A. C. Jacquith, have been sufficient to cause the mining men of the district to commence and lay plans for another, deeper and longer tunnel, say to a depth of 2500 feet, which would guarantee that mining operations could be carried forward, without interruption from water, for the next twenty years.
graphic for visual presentation of text Unless the deeper tunnel is run it will not be long before many of the mining companies will have to set their large pumping machinery to work again, which process, it is estimated, costs the companies $10,000 per vertical foot depth to handle the water situation of this district.
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Mining Reporter. Volume: 50 [L], Issue No. 26
Info Publication Date:
December 29, 1904
Info found on page:
711
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Water Flow
The present flow from the El Paso drainage tunnel amounts to about 4,700 gallons per minute as compared with 5,700 gallons three or four months ago.
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Eagle County Blade. Volume: 13 [XIII], Issue No. 38
Info Publication Date:
March 21, 1907
Info found on page:
4
Info Title:
Mines to Shut Down Till Relief From Drainage Tunnel Comes
It is currently reported that many mines which have reached water level in their development work will follow the El Paso property, which will, within the next three or four months, shut down until it secures relief from the Cripple Creek drainage tunnel, unless new and unexpected discoveries of ore are made meantime.
graphic for visual presentation of text The Cripple Creek drainage tunnel, will not be far from two and one-half to three years, according to present indications.
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Mining Science. Volume: 57 [LVII], Issue No. 8
Info Publication Date:
February 20, 1908
Info found on page:
189
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel Value
T. R. Countryman, engineer in charge of the new Cripple Creek drainage tunnel, in a very able paper read before the Colorado Polytechnic Society at Colorado Springs, Colo., gives some interesting facts and figures in regard to the value of the El Paso tunnel, which was completed in September, 1903. He stated:
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graphic for visual presentation of text "Assuming the average cost of lifting 1,000,000 gallons 600 feet in the Cripple Creek district to be $125, then the El Paso tunnel has earned to date fully $1,000,000, and it is still at work.
graphic for visual presentation of text And it works every minute of the day and every day of the year. There is no expense connected with it, and no flooding of levels on account of labor strikes or accidents to machinery. This tunnel has lowered the general water level of the district, as shown by the subsidence of the water at the Elkton shaft, a total of 160 feet.
graphic for visual presentation of text Perhaps the average reduction would not be so much."
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Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 96 [XCVI], Issue No. 2491; 16
Info Publication Date:
April 18, 1908
Info found on page:
514
Info Title:
Cripple Creek District Up to Date; Water Trouble Lessens
DENVER, COLORADO.—The water flowing from the El Paso tunnel is steadily decreasing. Both the Elkton and the Mary McKinney mines have been able to resume work on their lowest levels without pumping.
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Mining Science. Volume: 58 [LVIII], Issue No. 6
Info Publication Date:
August 6, 1908
Info found on page:
116
Info Title:
El Paso Tunnel Flow Subsides
On Jan. 1, 1908, the flow from the El Paso tunnel approximated 2,000 gal. per min. Since that time the flow has gradually subsided until at the present it amounts to barely 800 gal. per min.
graphic for visual presentation of text According to this fact it is calculated that within a few months the water flow will be very small.
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Mining Science. Volume: 60 [LX], Issue No. 1542
Info Publication Date:
August 19, 1909
Info found on page:
157
Info Title:
El Paso Tunnel as a Drainage Tunnel
The El Paso tunnel, the lowest of the drainage tunnels, at 8,783 ft. above sea level and below the mouth of Arequa gulch, was begun in January 1903, and on Sept. 6 connection was completed with the lowest levels of the El Paso mine. The first rush of accumulated water soon subsided to the normal flow.
graphic for visual presentation of text A few days after the El Paso tunnel cut into the great water course that raised the flow from 2,000 gal. to 5,000 gal. per minute, and the water fell rapidly in the Elkton, showing that the rate of fall of the Elkton water is limited by the flowing capacity of the natural fissure which afforded the first great flow in the mine.
graphic for visual presentation of text While the El Paso tunnel lowered the water in the Mary McKinney and Elkton, showing a connection to open fissures between Beacon hill phonolite and the main volcanic neck, it did not affect materially the drainage of some other mines near it, showing that there are local basins of water within the main water area. It is believed that the quantity of stored water decreases as great depth is gained.
graphic for visual presentation of text Great bodies of water, however, have been encountered 400 ft. below the El Paso drainage, showing that there are still water-bearing fissures at great depth.
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The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 88 [LXXXVIII], Issue No. 22
Info Publication Date:
November 27, 1909
Info found on page:
1062
Info Title:
El Paso Drainage Tunnel
The El Paso tunnel was, until the present Roosevelt project began, the lowest and most important drainage tunnel of the entire district. Its portal was at an elevation of 8783 ft., and its effect upon the water level of Beacon hill and adjacent mines was immediate.
graphic for visual presentation of text Countryman and Jaquith estimated the total flow of this tunnel up to Jan. 1, 1905, at about 3,550,000,000 gal. of water. It is still discharging a large amount of water, showing that the overlying-rock water is not yet exhausted.
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Mining Science. Volume: 63 [LXIII], Issue No. 1633
Info Publication Date:
May 18, 1911
Info found on page:
532
Info Title:
Silver Wave Prospecting Through El Paso Tunnel
Active operations have been commenced through the old El Paso tunnel by E. W. McClintock, B. Morel and others, who have secured a prospecting permit, with lease option, on the Silver Wave, a property traversed by the tunnel and owned by the Marquette Gold Mining Co.
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The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 92 [XCII], Issue No. 2
Info Publication Date:
July 8, 1911
Info found on page:
85
Info Title:
El Paso Water Stuff
El Paso—The water receded about 50 ft. in the main El Paso shaft, evidently as the result of the opening of the drill well in the bottom of the shaft.
graphic for visual presentation of textThrough some unaccountable reason the pipe opened, June 27, and let a great supply of water out.
graphic for visual presentation of text A party that went to the portal stated that the water had risen at least a foot and that there was double the usual amount of water flowing from the drainage tunnel.
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