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Show EXPRESSING FEAR OF II BLOSSOM GAVE Some Believe Damage Will Be Found More Extensive , Than Anticipated. Defiplle the. assurances held out by tho Iron Blossom management that the cave-In cave-In of aevoral days ago Is nothing very sarlotis. and that two weeks will bring about a complete restoration to normal, there is a disposition on the part of many Salt Lakers closely In touch with the company to believe that the Injury to the mine will b found more destructive than Ik now appreciated. Thero is -no disposition to place any blame upon the management for the hard luck, because In a property of the youth of tho Iron Hln.ssom Micro Is no reason whatever (o I exneet such a misfortune, and conditions Mini could not he fonsseon and guardod ar.alnst ((rlainly existed. It Ik agreed that the lion Blossom has been ono of the best managed propositions of tho Tintlc camp. The cave began In Mie vicinity of tho big Htopo on the 500-foot level, extending extend-ing in a northerly and southerly direction direc-tion at right angles to (he tunnel on the 200-foot level, the affected zone of the tunnel being ubout sixty feet In width ux far as now known. Tho management will attempt (o drift round this section so us to bring the two unijured portions of the tunnel together again, but somo fear that the ground has been too severely se-verely altered to admit of such work. It is hoped, however, upon complete In-vi'stlgation In-vi'stlgation that the management will be found correct In Us proposed plan of repair, re-pair, but Micro are many who remember that In the case of tho Ontario tunnel cave the damngo was to, be repaired In two weeks, but It took two years. The tunnel connects with the 200-foot level of the No. 1 shaft, tho ore' Is hoisted to this level and thenca trammed to tho loading station located at the railroad tracks. To bring about a successful utilization of the shaft as a complete unit of production would necessitate a tramway from the hoisting plant to the railroad below. About half of the Iron Blossom tonnage has been coming from this No. 1 shaft, so the production of ore may bc reduced to that extent until the repairs aro completed. |