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Show Tliu ';it;mo. ! Ttie er.ui'.ifi in. ilio new hoMin ( works at ti-p OdIumo whs fin d i;p on j Sunday, -A i'. i--. h -:. vpcI that b-.'ore this the I'Mi'.;.- :n v.-.irl: luwoiiu tho water in thn mine. The new works were commenced a considerable considera-ble length of time before the fire at the mine occurred, and were began because the old shaft was not large enough to ud m it of the performance of the amount of work dcaircd. A shaft was eunk 500 feet aud a cross cut dug till it tapped tho workings of 'the mino at tho 50.) hot level, but this, of course, has nho been filled with water. The two pumps started some time eince havo been working in tho levels by means of tho old shaft; but the tauka are to work in the new shaft, which ia much larger, and the result will ha that tho latter machinery will reduce tho . volume ol Watfr much fmlor limn Ilia nunmn can do, though they will also continue con-tinue their labor until the mine is cleared. As soon as the mine is empty, the connection between be-tween tho new shaft and the mine will again b-3 efl-cted and the work of hoisting ore will go on through bjth the old and the new shafts. |