SEDDONVILLE STATE MINE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 4

SEDDONVILLE STATE MINE.

THE MINISTERS INTENTIONS. , Altli-migh the produ.t-tio.ii o : f eoaljroia tlie Sedtlonvillc State mine entirely ceased, a good deal remains to be done before the mine can im tally abandoned. The Hon. W. Frasw {Miwis-te-r of Mines) lis wrangwg to have tc»-doi-s <-alled for tiio purchase <jf_ tlio milio and p-lsmt midcf certain speeiiSed coudittons, If no foasaii'.-.blo <tffcr is rwi?*, the Sllnistcr told a- reporter., the Mines Department will take ont all H» ijiant ftac is of any vuJat raflior than bo-1! it at a JwKvy lossi and titeu seal up tlio mino. This last preeantion is iteeossm-y in order to guard against the possibility j of a fifo broakuig out in tjio luiiw, as ] has baldened in soniO othor oases. Thwo is an old finne not f.i.r from SsddonviHO) ] known as Chasm Creel-:, -which l»as been on fi-ro for yeai-s ftiid is still Isariiilig.: Erery carij "is te be tatst'ii to prwont anytiimg oC tliis kind liappening at ScddoiivUle. Jreantimo tlio mm© is in I ehargo of tho isanager and a caretaker. Nearly all tte men employed ■have taken ira-rk at otfaw mines about the district, and th© Stillislo.r , is in--fornie'l that moro minors cmii-d bo -employed if tjioy were available. Sowo proposal has bpori msdo to l-fln Wβ raiiw as a co-oficTotivc cowftdrn, unt on acjcoimt of the poor and practienHy n«-sal-s>a!)lci quality of the rcrno-iiiiiic «ml tho project is not n*sardfld as feasible. It may bo takon for granted tl-ifttMl ,o days of tlio urine its a poinss fionopfli ft-re Over, tvufc soine of flio plant is valuable ami ea-ti Ijb used elscwhew. Jt, includes raik, il» tlitt mine aittl on tho skiing, som-o mnr-hinery, ve-iitila-t-ion a-p----pliattccij and so forth.