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Show UTAH-APEX iff IDLEJROM EI Special to Tlie Tribune. BINGHAM, March 2S. With gas fires raging slightly above the 1 " 0 0 level, while huge suction pumps are being worked to the limit in an effort to flood the workings, work-ings, the great Utah-Apex mine lies tonight to-night innpera tive, its TiOO laborers having been distributed among the other mining j properties of the vicinity. The mine, is being flooded and preparations are being, rushed for the nnwa tct Ing or the workings work-ings when the fire is put out. Additional pumps ha ve been arranged for, and plans for huge steel buckets have been drawn, Lo be used In bailing out the mine. According to V. S. Rood, mine supprin-tertdfnt, supprin-tertdfnt, the fire was started by decomposing decom-posing sulphide ores, which lighted the tunnel timbers. The workings will be closed down not less than three months, according lo Mr. Rood, and possibly longer. Mining men of Bingham predicted tod;iy that filling the mine with water would cause many eaveinK thsit would delay1 the unwaLering greatly. A few of the disrhn rged miners wvr employed by the 11 ig) 1 la 1 id Hoy mine, while' the United Slates mine g;ive a blanket order tor men. |