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ground by the steam introduced, made it so dangerous that we gave up
the attempt and came back and drove the fire draft as per tracing.
On. Suxxday we bulkheaded our 3th Level. situated undE;r the....
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fire, making the in.*.ake of eir the lowest point. on the 7th Level. This
enabled zxs to get on top o° the fire. Should we have discovered 'chat
the fire was above bur 7th Level, we should have; bulkheade~ AIo.•.;7 tight
and have fought the smme plan of campaign frcmd our 5th Level, th?
idea being, of course, to confine the fire to as small a„space as
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possible and get action on it from both tpp and bottom,
we have bulkheads~i in every drift running north from our
cross-cuts,. sometimes fitivo or three in order to protect rn?r neighbors as
well as our nortMsrn workings. A.11 of our bulkhFr~ds when put up,
••whether necessary ox{not, have had laid tYirough then pipe from two to
four inchos in diameter, so that we might, have access to tA.e ground
beyond the bulkhead without tearing it dot°m.
At one time we had considerable tx•oubit: in fiiu:irg out where
the water was going that we were pouring in on 7th, but, later found
out that while most of it was bei.n~ absorbed by the dryr talc in tine
stopa that the balance !vas running down to our 9th Level and th.e
Mollie Gibson, lOtli Level where it was taken care of by the pu_,ps.
On S;:~tux•day last we discovered that the gas was ri~:kir.g its
way. to vn.e 4th Level rind re started to connect the pipe running;
tkirouE,h our bulkhead in the cross-cut on 9th to a line running direct~-
iy i:o our pumps, th© id.ea being to draw off the heavy gas into the
p'arnp suction. Gnttin~; better control of *.he fire we found this un-
neces ary ann discont:znueci t'r~is line.
At the present iti•riting, we se~~:n to have very goon. ccrYtxrol
Over ;7:1.t little fi.i! til°.P"° iS ie~t aYL'?. %iI•Ei feelii.~~' enCOUra&Gti beG%a"i!.SB
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