Show ONTARIO DRAIN PROGRESSION Five Thousand Gallons a Min Minute Minute Mm ute Through Drill Holes Great Flow in Tunnel 1 HISTORY OF DRAIN TUNNEL WHY FINAL OF PROPERTY SEEMS SLOW fr diamond drill dill hole has been through from the side drift of ot the Ontario drain tunnel level and about abou gallons of or water per minute was yesterday pouring through the four tour holes boles now finished The water is not lowering in No 3 shaft as rapidly as we should like to see sec it do said Superintendent P I 1 L Williams yesterday esterday though during the thelast thelast thelast last hours it has gone down sour four and a half halt feet The water is now about feet below the 1100 foot loot level leve Through the tho long drain tunnel the water Is 15 now pouring forth at ato a rate es en estimated estimated to be to gallons a n minute The tunnel was constructed on a grade of inch per rod and the flume under the track had a depth of eighteen inches below the sills and five fire and feet wide In this flume between and gallons o or of water per minute was carried awa away without reaching the sills silts of the tun tunnel tunnel nel net floor Some Drain Tunnel History In November 1889 1289 when the th mark was reached and a switch was put In a big water course was tapped and the track and floor had to b braised be raised Previous to the raising of th the track and when the water was all aU 0 o two feet above the track floor it wa was estimated that about bout gallons a was running out of ot the mouth o othe of thee the tunnel That was the biggest flow ever over known in the tunnel up to the pres present present ent cut time Now Nov the water is running over the Hume flume about eighteen Inches deep and without Its having been ac accurately accurately accurately measured It is believed the flow is as stated above Before the mine became flooded there was less than gallons a minute leaving the mine Ever Eve since the mine entrance to the tunnel at shaft No 2 was reached there has been considerably more than the nor normal normal normal mal flow of the mine rUl through I the long drain dram and the volume suing makes it plain that the properties must be drained sooner or later laterI J 3 H Keetley the man who con constructed constructed I the Ontario drain tunnel stated last evening that there was nothing sur surprising surprising surprising in the fact tact that with so much mud water issuing tunnel It was not lowering faster taster in the workings Why Seems Slow During the long time that the mine has been submerged a tremendous amount of water has been held back in the fissures and channels from which It originated When the water rose to the level as a it did gradually it stopped there the water from the various channels not having force and weight to raise the level jn In Inthe n the mine In other words the t e pressure equalized itself at that point Now low z a athe the tur tun tunnel the water is drawn off oft through nel nd one after another of these sources source of supply are being freed from the pre pres pressure presure of or the bulk of water in the mir mine sure dis di disgorge disgorge workings and so relieved they can gorge their contents contente at ac l crated speed For that reason It ma mabe may maybe mabe be that the water will be lowered rap rapidly rapidly ra in the mine for a day or a few days daj da idly it will tha thano th hat at a time and then appear real headway is being maue matie though no tremendous stream is all the time tim the rushing out iut of the drain tunnel Bu Bi Buthe But Bithe the task of the mine is be beIng beIng b bIng accomplished all the time and sooner soon sooner Ing normal conditions will pre pr prevail er or later vail again It is certainly good new neWS ne these thee that is coming from the properties days and those interested have a right There should be n no to feel jubilant discouragement felt because at interval intervals though no headway i Is i it t may appear as gained With more than double being issuing the natural flow of the mines the tunnel all the time there cabe ca cabe can from complete recia reclamation resul the be only one mation of the ground before long Stocks in San Francisco FranIsco Fran isco Tile The closing quotations on Nevada Neada stock stocks In San Francisco yesterday esterday as reported n Pol Pollock Pollock over the private wires of James rames A lock ock Co ei j were as follows Comstock I 1 Bid 2724 Mexican Ophir Gould Cur Curry 20 21 Consolidated Virginia w 75 76 50 51 Savage Sierra 47 4 48 5 36 Union Tonopah I Bid Asked Tonopah Nevada Tonopah 19 1 t Tonopah Extension Macnamara 33 39 dIdway Tonopah Belmont 1724 i ITS Tonopah North Star 18 19 Ohio Tonopah 00 Rescue lii 15 16 Golden Anchor 00 07 Cash Bo Boy 02 04 Golden Crown 0 Goldfield I Bid Sandstorm 39 29 r ColumbIa Mountain 23 1 J Extension so 50 5 51 ernal 07 Kendall 20 2 21 Booth 25 Blue lUe Bull 19 l dams Adams 07 os 08 Silver Pick 32 33 Black Butte Extension O 04 05 5 Blue lue 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Camp 05 Xi I Other Districts I Bio ms Asked Aski Eagle Eale T SO Nevada Neala Thus 30 3 Pittsburg Silver Peak 10 North forth Star Wonder 01 I Eagles Nest NestS 26 Ore and Bullion S Ore and n d bullion settlements In this city efty yesterday esterday as WI reported by McCornick S Co o amounted to as WI follows Sli SIl Slier SIlVer Ver er lead gold and copper ores base basc bullion Metal Market Silver per Pr r ounce Copper cathodes 13 per pound Lead tead iS per pounds |