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Outside the ward, the fugitives jumped a second guard and a trusty, hustled them, into a sub-basement and locked them up. Through a tunnel used for steam pipes and electric cables they fled, unlocking two doors with keys which they had long since prepared. The tunnel opened on the side of a railroad embankment, down which they slid and ran along the tracks. In Water Street they were spotted by two cops. They fired, killing Patrolman James Fagan. Patrolman William Nelson fired back, drilling Convict James Waters through the heart. The other two, Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale, pelted...
...Colorado's famous old Cripple Creek mining district, which produced $24,986.990 worth of gold in its peak year (1901), men have been boring a tunnel for 20 months in search of pay dirt. Last month they found it. Water gushed from the rock, sent them scurrying from their tunnel. Soon the flow reached 20,000 gallons a minute-enough to cover an acre of ground to a depth of 100 ft. in a single day. The water level in Cripple Creek's long-flooded mines dropped fast. By last week the 2,600-foot-deep Ajax mine...
After 1900 the Cripple Creek boom flattened out. Although the field was 9,500-11,000 ft. above sea level, the miners, as they went deeper, met a mass of spongy rock in a pocket of granite where water had collected for centuries. One tunnel, blasted through the granite in 1903, drained away some of the water. Another, finished just before World War I, gave Cripple Creek another lease on life. But by 1930 the boom days were gone...
Present owner of many of the mines (as well as the field's ore mill and railroad) is Golden Cycle Corp. After the town of Cripple Creek was refused a Federal loan to dig a third drainage tunnel, Golden Cycle decided to risk about $2,000,000 of its own money...
...tunnel is 3,300 ft. below ground, will be about 32,000 ft. long; Golden Cycle claims that it will be the longest of its kind ever dug. The company hopes to sell the water for irrigation purposes. New ore discoveries also will foot part of the bill; last month the diggers struck a vein assaying $65 a ton, six times as much as most of the ore now mined from the field...