Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-11 | Page 8 | Water Halts Dragon Mine Winze

i! WATER HALTS DRAGON MINE WINZE Special to The Tribune. ',' f I-CRK'aA, March 10. When the flow of water in the winze at the Dracon Con-: Con-: ! siilidated mine iticrcased to a point where ! it was pi vini; t he companv considerable ; t rouble, the work of sin kins; the ATnze 1 j was stopped. This winze was sent down , ; to a distance of over TOO teet below the j 1"00 level of the older workings of the 1'raon. The point selected for the wmze was almost directly under one of the ; I lar.ee iron blcwoms. and a very likeiy section sec-tion for some deep work. Tne officers of the company had planned to sink a couple of hundred feel deeper, but tho heavy flow of water caused them to ffive up the work for the present. It ; is barely possible that no effort will be 1 made to prospect this particular part of tho company's ground until Jesse Knight's 1 drain tunnel can be driven in to that part of the district, lowering" the. water a few hundred feet.