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Portland Old Shaft [Original/Discovery Shaft]
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Info Database Last Updated 08.04.2024 (Entity News entries: 1)
Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Morning Times. Volume: 5 [V], Issue No. 118
Info Publication Date:
September 4, 1897
Info found on page:
4
Info Title:
Portland Mine is Not Flooded
MINE NOT FLOODED.
graphic for visual presentation of textPortland Can Handle All Their Water.
graphic for visual presentation of text Colorado Springs, Sept. 3.—President Burns of the Portland company declares untrue the story to the effect that the Portland is in a flooded condition. Water has been allowed to rise from the 800 to the 700-foot level, and a small sinker pump has been submerged. The hundred feet of water could be pumped out in forty-eight the work will not be done until the new pump, with a capacity of 1,000 gallons a minute arrives, which will be about September 10.
graphic for visual presentation of text Mr. Burns reports a recent strike in the 700-foot level, which disclosed a five-foot vein, with a six-inch streak which goes $400 to the ton.
graphic for visual presentation of text The Anna Lee chute has not yet been cut, but it is thought that it will soon be encountered.
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Abstracted and slightly adopted to single mine text from a piece of text about two mines.
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