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Show GOOD W ORK ON ARDUOUS TASK Recovery in Ontario Goes WelL Work Will Be Completed Earlier Than First Contemplated. Apprehensions at Camp Are Relieved by tho Excellent Progress Made by the Workmen. In the recovery of the Ontario's draln-tunnei draln-tunnei from the waters that have long submerged It the management Is at present pres-ent making fine progress and that the Ugly and vexatious task will have been completed at an earlier day than the less courageous havo believed It possible is now quite generally believed at ci mp Ai presmt the management is burrowing its way through the obstruction which was encountered at a station aboul iSQO feet from the mouth of th hmg artery and whllo It Is Impossible u. 1,., any positive degree of nccura y what furtber ills are in its muddy pathway, it Ih In possession of accurato knowledge of those intervals at which occur the soft and running ground and t,, that extent ex-tent Is capable of locating tho possible obstructions with which It has to deal before the final one Is reached. Not only are. tho obstructions being removed, re-moved, but as 1 precaution against possible pos-sible Interruptions of this nature In future fu-ture the work Is being followed up. along the stretches of soft ground, with a w rotight-iron pipe eighteen Inches In diameter, this orifice spacious enough to permit a miner to make his way through It In the event that an emergency should require. At present tho waters are around the 100-foot level of the shaft, while from tho mouth of the tunnel is flowing about 10 pet cent of the normal at this period of the year. With a knowledge Of these conditions tho apprehensions tit camp have been materially relieved, while commercial interests in-terests are progressing as usual. Of course tho task has been, a clumsy and arduous one. No one appreciates this more than do tho inhabitants of tho camp, who are doing all In their power to encourage Manager Hood and Superln-t( Superln-t( nd nt t onnelly In their strenuous endeavors en-deavors to reopen tne pathway |