Show SITUATION AT ONTARIO Mine and Mill Mil Closed Down and For Former Former Former mer May Fill Fi With Water The situation at the Ontario prop property property erty crt Park City according to the re report report report port sent down last lat evening is il any tIming thing but assuring The extent of the cave in the time great great drain tunnel is still unknown and amid while work has been steadily progressing progressing to determine whether it would be b possible to open the time avenue and safely draw off the waters vaters wat rs the time latest news as Js that Super Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Matt Conolly Conoly has reached the th conclusion that it cannot be done The Time mine end of or the t tunnel tunnel has been bulk headed to prevent any more water ater run rUI fling ning into the tunnel and the mine maine is Ii isnow now no ow filling lilling up at the rate of or more than I gallons per minute The heaviest pumping machiner machinery in iii inthe inthe L the mine is located at the level but ut it would woul prove entirely in iti inadequate inadequate adequate to the th taste task ta of f handling hunding any an r such uch volume of or water and as the them th I maximum m tanking capacity is only about 1500 gallons per minute there ther Uler I is absolutely I no way of keeping the i mine open with wih the tia drain drin tunnel closed cosed Yesterday morning time the mine and mill mil mu 1 were closed down and and it will wil not be b i to resume r ume until the time drain drIn tun tuii tunnel nel aol has Imax been restored to its is normal norma I condition Superintendent I Connolly Connoly is im I reported to have stated during durin the time aft afternoon at afternoon that timid the only possible possible way ay to tot t turn t ln the trick would be b to cut fr from ni the main and amid reach a point pInt I where the ground grund was cavo I aria smia u n then timen cut around find draw oft off thO tf water wafer front from the other side id How ions this wi will take lake is problematical as that thuL t 1 particular section eton is hard country to too t operate o rate in at l lL heaL ef L LAfter After the tho mine nane fills ui u to the 1500 1301 0 level it i will vIlL wi not take tae long unless the main avenue is on that side sid to h fill fU it up clear dear through to the tbt Daly Dalr Vest Vt end lines so work work may have have to tobe ti tibe be suspended there also akK al Long con comm continued COI delay in lit relieving the tunnel I would probably result in filling the thi mine maine to the level through which the wat water r could escape esage At Park City i the disaster is consid considered ered ere in a much graver gaver light than was wa S the fire fre which destroyed No 3 hoisting holstin works last lat August Augst There it was wa easy ens to measure the damage In this cast case it is i Impossible to even gues guess what may happen Should any considerable considerable length length of time elapse before re the tunnel is opened the water may bring brinS down other I scaly ly portions along its length and practically ruin the te entire ent ire avenue i iI I |