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Show BLACKHAWK MINE AT PRICE ON FIRE Price, Feb 1. Fire was discovered in the Blackhawk mine of the Black-hawk Black-hawk Coal company at about midnight last night and the ffur men who were working in the tunnel were driven out by smoke Superintendent H. E. Low-is Low-is telephoned at 8 o'clock tonight that it was his opinion that the fire was under control and would soon he extinguished ex-tinguished Ten thousand pounds of lumber was received from Price by express at noon to build brattices to shui off the air and smother the fire The company's mine rescue car is being be-ing used, as Is the government car, which arrived from Salt Lake at 12 .10 today Tho fire ib believed to be about midway between the portal and the breast of the 2000-foot tunnel Mr Lewlfl says there is no way of knowing how the fire started. The mine is one of tbe cleanest and most substantial in Carbon county. Careful chocking of employees leads the Superintendent Su-perintendent to believe that no one is in the mine at present. |