Show WATERING V UN A WABASH ABASH V IS NOW UNDER WAY V A Y Heavy New Machinery P Started Will Wi Quickly Discharge Flood Tho The work of limo Uio Wabash Wabash Wa Wa- 0 bash mine Is under way vaYland tand and General Genera Manager says as a's that from present pres pros ent appearances the men should be beable able ablo able to get et into tho the lower level le cl within three or four r fO days lays Few have an aim idea of ot time the grea great amount of ot work worl Involved In installing the new machinery and otherwise pr preparing pre pre- i paring for tor handling the flow fow of ot Water wa wa- ter which came caine Into tho Wabash mine with the tapping of oC a fissure gives gl the greatest promise of carrying been the tho ore bodies which long have hMO sough sought t. t To he begin ln with wih a pumping pumping station 2 22 feet long 14 I 1 feet eat wide and 14 1 feut high was cut from the hardest hardest kind of ut rock 11 1 feet above tho the regular slaton station sta sta- tion ton on the foot COO level Then rhen water wa wa- vater va- va ter tel columns of a capacity of or gallons gal gal- lIons l- l Ions lons were Jm Installed it J behig g desired l to havo have station Elton and pipes large enough for any possible emergency A now horsepower boiler brUer al also o was In Installed installed In- In stalled staled making three boilers with Uh a D total steam capacity of or er cr and the tho boilers were connected up with a new now steam line lne t This equipment places the Wabash In n position to copo cope with wIh any situation that hat might arise and the time present situation sit sit- from all aU appearances will 1 bo ho handled with prefect ease Tho The water has hus been beon stationary at 1 12 feet Cot above the foot COO station That means that it does docs not e extend out ou Into the time drifts drift to exceed about 1600 1500 feet Thet for fOl the drifts from that station are aro on a slight upgrade That hat amount of ot water water wa wa- ter It i Is figured can be he pumped out In n a 3 very cr few ew days perhaps clays cays perhaps In forty forty- eight hours After Aler the time mine Is once the flow fow can caim be easily bandied handled han ban died with the tho prospect that in II a n short time tho the mine workings will wl tal take e cure care of ot It H. Col Col l expects to Und ibid th the mine in iii il good condition While some leavy hea ground had been encountered It was left lef well eU timbered and it I Is b be- be bp- bp that the tho water has done no special special ape ape- cial damage With work resumed in the tho faces which were loft left lef near ner where the sudden sudden sud sud- den How ilo of water indicates the pr presence pros pres s- s ence euce of an au ore bearing vein news from the tho Wabash will wl be awaited with not nota a litti interest |