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Show ISTARRET PUMP FOR THE COMSTOCK CAMP Superintendent Symmes of the United Comstock Pumping association states in the Virginia Chronicle, that a Starrct pump has been ordered from Salt Lake City, Lo he Installed upon Its arrivnl In a few days at the "Ward shaft. It is expected that the pump will Tjo set up and In operation within a week, and that the sbnft will be pumped out to the sump In about two weeks after it begins work. In flooding the 2475 station on account of th" fire there two weeks ago, the water wa-ter has subsequently risen to a point below be-low the 2100-foot level, where It is held by the 2100 station pumps. The Starrct pumps arc run by compressed air, and will work under water as well as on a station, and at tho "vCard can be submerged sub-merged to any depth desired in reclaiming reclaim-ing the flood area. There Is a Starrct pump at tho C. & C. shaft now. not being be-ing uppd, that worked successfully a year or two aco. and It is t-nlri will be held In reserve for ue at the Ward, In case It is required. |