Show DRAIN TUNNEl OPENING SLOW Another Cave Is Encountered and Drift Around It Has Been Stared Started MAY TAr TANK K OUT MINE SHAFT ONTARIO MANAGEMENT PATES BUT LITTLE TROUBLE Another c cane ha has ben been encountered In the Ontario drain tunnel another ls flus been constructed and the manA ment has commenced time the trig ing of another encircling drIft Oil on th south side of the m main in avenue to get it The tun tuntel el was cleared for oel over feet feat after etting around the theliS liS big cave when another was struck This Ohio oue Is located about feet e t from No o 2 shaf shaft and as time tho ground I sold solid though blocky I it is not anticipated that much difficulty f cr 1 a great deal or of tIme wJ will be required to pass jasS this obstruct Ion ACer After running parallel wih with the tun tunnel nel nd for a short distance it is the Intention te ton tion to again bring the tho diamond drill Into play pIny and leam what conditions are arc I if th 1 Is found to tobe tobe be unobstructed at the first trial con wi be made n the water l tIT fro I If It Is evident that there is moro more caved ground than count counted d dupon upon the dri drill wil be directed farther nhe tho tunnel fel felt of in that bie way several times l it deemed I It Is not b believed leed that there re is much more bad ground round between the present anti and the No 2 shaf shaft and it is also quite that there Is no 0 grave In the mine near time the shaft Recent Recently a weight was lowel lowered d into No 2 and It went down e to the co tunnel 1 level without having It its d descent scent Interrupted That the workings be between between tween Nos 3 and 3 shafts are not caved In is evidenced b by the fact that the wu cr in each remains at practically uto same level or at cose close to the 1150 O foot marl mark In No 3 Manager lanager Ernest stated yesterday that h he was also als consider considering er erIng Ing tIme the proposition of tanking out the mine through No 3 workIngs in order to time the pressure on the drain tunnel once I it Is opened As An just about the tho nonn l fow flow of the mine is isnow isnow now passing ugh the tunnel he fg fig U tu Os es b by tanking at the rate of 1000 glons gallons per minute or gl gal ions lons pel pet da day It might b be possible to clear the mine to the tunnel level In Ina ina a comparatively short time and thus eliminate tc nl all danger from a sudden n rush of water Into th the tunnel Even Evens though the thc tanking did not fully 1 meet et in n this respect it Is t felt lt that time thc dra on off of so much water would relieve the situation to the extent of draining much ground Into which the vater has naturally its wa way during time the nearly two years last so that when the tunnel i Is finally opened I It wi will not he be so long Ut till i It Is possible to get things started In the mine The situa ion is consid considered ered to be getting beter better al all the time urd ard the hope Is expressed sed that I It wi will not be long tn till it can be raid ald the mine has been reclaimed |