Weekly journal-miner., 1908-11-18
CLOSES DOWN MINE IN
 THE WARREN DISTRICT

BISBEF. Nov. l2.-The Warren mine is shut down. apd rumors con nected herewith are 90 thick that a man cannot appear on the street with ont bumpiing into few. Of course there are q good many conflicting re but there are also rumOrs that bear the stamp of reliability. They are plausible they agree with known facts. Some of them. taken together, doyctail nicely into each other, and IT, that shape pass for facts. But if one wishes Co confirm reports by going to fhose who know, he is gently turned down. Superintendent liiil is as talk stive as an oyster, and Hoyal A. Smith was absent yesterday
 IL is not denied that lack of ready cash is the main cause for suspending operations, but nobody acquainted with The .iteaticn regards that as anything serious. The Warren mine has an issue of GO.00O shares of a par value of .lj cach. or q total of $9OO,. GOO. The stock yesterday was quoted at s7.25 The shares sold for develop men' are fully prid and sssessable and naturally, when the money contri. huted by tue general stockholders for development give. out. there is but one thing to do, if the mine is to be main tained and work continued reorgan. ize
 Another thing about the Warren mine that might make it advisable to close down until more capital is avail able. is the water question. They have gone down little more than 800 feet, and it is understood that m water has been encountered. But min ing engineers are morally certain that the next loo feet wOuId strike flow that would flood the mine. In fact, one pretty good authority declares that if the Warren mine strikes water, the $. X P. can stop it's pumps, for then water from nearly the "whole district" would find hs way 10 the Warren shaft. It is recalled that the Saginaw. while drifting toward the Warren shaft. encountered this same flow of water and was compelled to close the drift to avoid being flooded. The water level of the district west and south of the Junction mine is much nearer the surface at the War rcn than at the s. & r. That is, the x. & r. went down fully l,2O0 feet without eneountering water, whereas, unless the rock formation is different from what is supposed by engineers. 900 feet should tap the flow at War. ren. That this water, if encountered. would mean enormous expense for pumping, goes without saying. Yet, there could be possible conditions an- der which it would pay to undergo this expense. If there is ample ore in the Warren mine, and if it's pufnp- would later help. drain the z. ( r. dis triet, then there would he profit in taking care of the water at Warren.
 Has the Warren mine the. ore Ask Superintendent Hill, and hs will tell yoa-- nothing. Ask any of the dozen men who have been working there, and they are deaf and dursb. It would he hard to imagine mine force moro childlike and bland when asked about the ore conditions in Warren, yet one of these same men, if he should tear his shirt, could doubtless converse vol ubly on the subject in at least two languages.
 i But all things point 10 the fact that the Warren mine has not shut down permanently. How long the shut down will last is not know~ definitely, and the best opinion an expert can give Is that it will resume just as soon as money is raised to take care of any possible expense. Nor is t true that the shaft has been filed up, q. was wildly asserted las, week. The shaft is closed with solid rock fov a few feet down only, but closed tightly enough to prevent the curious from d d;.anv.vtnu unvth,uu ma at t.rs..ut