Show ONTARIO MINE RUIT N ED 4 Early Horn ng Fire Fir Destroys Ne No 3 If Works 1 THE PLANT PUNT COST 4 BOOD OD a MY YB IT WILL I 4 Special to The TIre Herald D ARX CITY June Tha No ro 3 I hoist hoisting hoisting P r ing works worl of the Ontario company south BOuth of f this city were destroyed by fire tirE early this thia morning The alarm was waa first Drat heard beard at 2 and while there tb were four fur men about the th s at atthe atthe a athe the Um time none Irene of ef them knew w where the theIn frt fr In hose o was wal kept and as a a resu t the tile flames t 1 0 m 8 were beyond yond control before a 1 of cf water could be turned on In Inside Insi Inside side si e of vf an hour bour the I m In building car ear carpenter penter and arid blacksmith black shops were re reduced e to a pile of smoking ruins though he immense gallows frame continued t burn for tr several severa hours longer The origin of ot the fire will ill probably bly Th The Thoa never LA be known to a certainty blaze was discovered in the carpenter penter shut hop by ly lJ William Benney I wires wirier and OlIn a hot box oa on 0 the engine which ran ra n nth th blower Llo tr at the mine tr tell given aa as the probable cause Cant Estimate Loss To estimate the loss Iou at this time would be Impossible Bible but when the building was put up in 1884 1814 and the great Cornish pump magnificent hoisting engine mam mats mammoth moth compressor and aDd other were installed 1 It was given ven out officially that the plant piat represented re ted an outlay of These figures of course coune would wouW include the heavy expenses expanses of 01 f building the mammoth eat cut stone pits pita and founds foundations tion that accommodated uuno ted the Cornish pumping plant the immense tB water col column column unum rods rod rod bob ob 1 pits pita etc between n the surface and the toot level of the mine As this portion of the plant has luea long since been discarded ed and counted for little litti more ort than the value of the th metal In if it as scrap serap iron the loss will fall far farbe betow bew be the figures given above At the present time the No 3 shaft Is I down to a depth of O feet or feet below the level l lee t l of the great drain tunnel On the 1500 1514 1709 1700 and foot levels there thre has hail been considerable co work going on On tae level three large steam pumps pupa were employed In lifting the water to the Ute 1509 1500 1 or drain tunnel level These pumpe pumps are jill all ii out OIt of commission and tile the leveI level below the 1560 1 are rapidly fill filling filling ing with water ter and men men familiar with conditions CO ODI claim that th these e levels will all aU allbe aUbe allbe be wider water ater by tomorrow night The company has Just completed its ita fine flue new concentrator and this will have bae to suspend work for the time be About men are affected aff ted by the dia II aster astel and this will to a certain extent ex teat 1 affect the town On the whole this morn mornings mornIngs ings fire is on of the greatest calam calamities Idea which ha haS befallen Park City for tor years Precautions to Save Life The greatest reate t precautions were taken by those t in authority to protect life and considering the extent of ot the fire and tine the number of ot men working at the prop property proPerty property erty it is almost miraculous that lives Uvee were e not lost Th The powder magazine was close and this was emptied of its con contents contents tents in a short time and the danger of an explosion averted The men down the mine were we notified D and sed got sot out through the and 04 1 LS drain drat tunnels The Ontario OD o was w struck in 1870 and up to the time tie of the he building J die of No 3 heIst two shafts shaf were su liN 1 and 2 2 The i mine ha produced produce in tn round und numbers about and has Ita paid about 14 14 I oo e in tn dividends and aud at the present time is by no means leans worked out as great I bodies of ore have been uncovered below the 1105 1 while the old okI workings above abOe are yet In good condition This morning Foreman Connelly took a aman aman man and went over to the drain tunnel where e he will go into the mine mule and see seeto s seeto e eto to the tle condition of the pumps etc not already below water WILL BE B QUICKLY Manager Rood Boo Unable to State ax mx tent teat at of o Lou LouOn On his bi return from Park City eity last even evening evenIng evening ing C Ij L I Rood manager of the Ontario stated that it was Impossible to say sa what UK loss 1085 of the No 3 I hoisting hoi works would amount to He declared it would simply be just what it would cost coat to erect a building and equip it for the work in hand band What will wilt be needed cannot be definitely decided until the machinery machiner cools coo off sufficiently to permit of a thor thorough thorough ough examination From appearances when he be left the mine all aU of the boilers boiler I will be saved while there is reason reas n to believe that th t the great hoisting engine and compressor compre can also be made as good as new without extensive exten or expensive re repairs reheat repairs pairs The shaft Mr r Rood stated ap appeared heat r peered to have been damaged but bet little it and amid when h he has II received re ed word from the company headquarters in New York no notime notime time will be lost lo in clearing clIar ng the wreck ag and supplying th needed equipment to begin in operations again Sixty days day at the e t outside should see things moving again as usual For several years past the company has haa been without insurance as the rates were considered dered exorbitant The mine Mr Rood declares d lares is in splendid physical condition and harming barring barrin th the delay follow f low the fire it is i in a position to earn good money every very day in n the year and aad for many years to come 8 I |