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Show Mine Train Closes Jim Santy, who has been operating the Mine Train ride on a lease basis throughout the summer announced an-nounced that the popular attraction at-traction will be discontinued on a temporary basis. He did indicate, however, that the Mine Train ride will most likely remain unoper-ational unoper-ational throughout the remainder re-mainder of the summer season. sea-son. Santy, who opened the ride and museum in July said that they had been and were enjoying a very profitable season until the cost of providing pro-viding the neccessary liability lia-bility and general coverage insurance became so prohibitive pro-hibitive that he was forced to discontinue operations. According to Mr. Santy the annual premimum for the insurance coverage could come to as high as $50,000. "We are not giving up" said the ever cheerful Jim Santy, we are still looking for a way to remain in operation op-eration but it is doubtful things can be worked out before winter. |