Show LOOKS LIKE A FAILURE Pumping Water Out Ont of Comstock iii I Mines Not a Success It looks as if the attempt to pump iu the water out of the Comstock mines of Nevada is going to prove a failure For a year or so the work has been t going on but after lowering the water L to about feet below the 1950 station little or no headway has been made According to the following clipped cUpped from the Virginia Enterprise of or the i nit alt the outlooK for success seems dis dir discouraging disI I yet it does not appear that tha 1 the pumping association has signified I its ts intention to give up just yet U tl The Comstock Pumping association ass t held a meeting in San Francisco yes Jes yesterday yesterday and the Risdon Iron Works notified the association that they had hadI I decided to give gle up the contract which 11 they entered into some time ago to toI 1 lower the water in the C C shaft I 1 I feet reeL The Risdon company has been L i 1 I paid pad the sums stipulated in the con contract contract I 4 tract and it seems strange that they 1 should go back ba k on their agreement The j I Risdon people however have agreed to supply the pumping association with pipes and nozzles for a year In the meantime some other and more success successful successful ful method of pumping the water will wm 1 no doubt dou t be adopted |