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...Warren's many fireplaces are in the least alike. Warren's taste for the unusual is also shown in the trap door which leads to a blank tunnel beneath the second floor, the secret stairway which is shown on the House blueprints but which is as yet undiscovered, the bedroom, in which the master's bed is separated from the remainder of the room by a sliding wall, and the peep-holes above the stairway on the second floor from which he could decide whether or not to admit guests...
...fabulous Telluride-Ouray-Silverton mining district of Colorado's San Juan mountains, the world's fastest tunnel builder was hard a-boring once more last week. The man: 6-ft.-8-in. John Raymond Austin, 56, whose straggly grey hair and long, lined face give him the melancholy look of a bloodhound. The job: adding 6,200 ft. to an abandoned tunnel under La Plata divide, to make it possible to get zinc, lead and copper out of some lately unworked gold & silver mines...
...Long John built California's Palms Tunnel No. 1, the Denver water district Jones Pass tunnel. Then he tackled the tough, six-mile Cripple Creek Carlton tunnel. On that job he flabbergasted veteran construction engineers by holing through in two years (the best estimated time was four to eight). This put Long John in the rockhog hall of fame. Two years ago he started the western end of the Alva Adams tunnel, a 13-mile tube 13,000 ft. beneath the crest of the Rockies. The Adams tunnel Government project intended to carry enough water from Grand Lake...
Last month RFC lent $1,300,000 to Metals Reserve Corp. to drill the rest of a tunnel to connect up the Barstow mine (once owned by Harry Payne Whitney), the Black Bear (once Rockefeller's) and adjacent mines. All these properties are now owned by Idarado Corp. and have been leased to Metals Reserve on a royalty basis. In addition to lead and copper, the Government especially hopes to get 5,600 tons of zinc the first year. Long John's tunneling tempo was needed again...
...this Long John has plenty to show. His salary - salary-from Stiers Bros. Construction Co. of St. Louis - tops $36,000 a year, four to six times the pay of most tunnel superintendents. He also has a collection of hats-all won by breaking records. When he won his last bet, an opera hat, he blurted: "What the hell does anyone my height do with a high silk...