Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-29 | Page 8 | Ontario Mine Draining.

ONTARIO MINE DRAINING Xo So o more encouraging news has as been rece received recell ll bv by mine operators from tho the Park City diggings in a lon long time tune than the tho announcement that tho the second drill hole that was driven dri from the parallel drift which was as sent around the caved portion of the drain between Nos 1 and antI 2 shafts of tho the Ontario mine is now drawing off oft t the he water These two drill holes bolcs are arl small and 1111 at nt best can m only in iu in part hart relieve e the fl situation but other holes holC's will be le sent Brnt through h the solid walls o of stone until Ih the entire pre pressure is is relieved re rc- rc HenrI nn and the mine i is drained entirely It Tt is claimed that the water is already receding in the thc inn mom in working shaft of f the great mine minI and for this reason it is the opinion of all Ill who have hwe inspected the tUlln tunnel l an and the mine that the last I obstruction has been passed and that I before re the spring thaw sets oets in the entire country will be he drained b by tho the long tunnel tun tim ad nel as asit it was previous ious to the cave which occurred almost three years ago aJo The cr crowd is not prepared 1 to announce that the situation has 1118 been solved by In the encouraging indications that have hn been beon attained but that the owners are nrc pleased with the pro progress ress' ress that is it bein being made can not be denied The fact that all nil of f the plans of the tunnel and the surrounding country were lost in the San Francisco fire lire has made the tho work of or reclamation doubly hard rd for lor tl c management has had to togo togo go 10 at nt the tho work blindly and make new maps and anil surveys of the thc countr country in order or or- tier der er that thc their r engineers might have ha a slight ht conception of the la lay Jay of tho laud At nn any rate it is a matter of If great reat importance importance im mi- to the Park City people who arc are now looking forward to the early arly resumption of operations at tho the Ontario Daly Dah Daly Ialy West an and Little Bell min mines as well ell aa as tho the increasing in of the forces employed at tho the r American Flag l and possibly the Daly c. c This would mean tho the giving in i of employment like WOO 2000 and an revive p to something men tho the business of that camp as ns well as being a great reat benefit to this city and surrounding in country