Show water slows operations 0 of f apex standard company 0 surface wa water ter coming into the shaft and then finding its way into the drift on the level has inter ered to some extent with mining op orations erat lons at the property of the apex standard company according to manager lewis merriman no such trouble was experienced last spring and it Is thought that the flow of water will soon cease it if not it mav be necessary to malie make some provi tor for taking care of 0 it either by draining dial dia ning ining the water off into the fis formation of by hoisting it to the surface the development of the apex standard was progressing in a most moa satisfactory manner up until the time the water commenced gavin the company trouble the mortn drift has been extended to a point about 1000 feet from the shaft and the officers of the company are quite confident that this heading will soon reach the lime and that a small amount of prospecting will result 11 1 1 the opening of an ore body |