Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-12-25
The Mammoth Vein.
TUE GREAT DEPOsITE OF BLACK DIAMONDS
COAL FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

In our last we stated that n rumOr had
reached US Of the r. ding of the Mammoth
Vein OF coal at tt,f Norwegian SHAFT, Of the
Reading Company, and We are delighted
in being able 10 state this w"a'- 'h"i tho
ruuor proved TO he true. About three
wears since the search for this great coal
artery was commenced by the Reading
Company, and after the shaft had been
sunk 10 the depth Of twelve hundred feet
the diamond drill was brought into requsi-
ton for further exploration.
The engineers state that the actual dis
tance from the surface OF the earth vertical
ly down to the Seven Foot vein, the twin
vein to the Mammoth, is 1909 feet. The
discrepancy is accounted for by the singu-
lar formation Of the veins Of cOai rs dcve!-
oped by the test drill. The big Tracy vein
basin is found TO be l67 feet deeper than
expected, aud the Orchard vein is SD curl
ously formed that il was cut three times,
the distance from is first appearance to the
last being $50 feet. The strata overlaps Or
closely folds in q very remarkably way.
TIE Seven Foot vein, which is the upper
member Of the Mammoth, was found 10 bc
thirteen and One-half feet thick, and ot eX-
ce.leut coal Underneath this vein there
are seven feet of STATE, three and one-haif
feet of good coal, sixteen feet of slate con
tanning iron ore balls and SIX feet Of car
bonaceOus Iron ore, Or Black Band. Then
comes the Mammoth vein tweuty-one feet
thick. next one and one-half feet Of parti-
ton slate, and under this it is though;
there is 4 nine-loot vein of coal, Below
this it is believed comes the solid rock.
Besides the Red Ash veins, which viii
be worked, and of which no mention has
been made in this article, there are the fol-
lowing white and gray ash Goals Prim-
rose, Fourteen feet deep, Seven Foot vein,
thirteen and ouc-half feet deep, and the
Mammoth, twcnty-onc feet deep, making
total depth Of forth-eight and one-half
feet Of coal.
Naturally enough the neighborhood sur
rounding the new shafts is greatly reoiced.
In no locality is there more JOY expressed
than in the immediate ncighborhood, as it
must necessarily lead to the early develop
ment of the vast coal 0asins which may be
said to uudcrly Mincrsyilie, and many Pco-
! pie are sanguinc that the second deep shaf;
Of the Company will be sunk very near the
! borders Of our Borough. We can only re-
/ ioice in the new discovery and hope that
its good influences will rapidly spread in
this direction. - NaGsrWe ReyrLlico".
TIE CHARLEY ROS, MYSTERY. There
were 20 new developments at the Police
! Central Office yesterday in the case of the
MISSING boy Charley Ross, but >npcrin-
teudcni WalHug said that he feit confident
that the boy wa, alive, and that be would
vet be found and restored to his parents.
The Superintendent has no doubt that the
/ boy was stolen 10y Moshrr simply to make
money by his restoration.
Important news was received by telegraph
( last night that offers Il new ccw to the
whereabouts Of the lost child, and Supclin-
tendcnt Walling has sent out detectives to
work it up. The details Of his information
the Supcrindent is not ready to make pub
/ lie Var Yo,E Tribule Of Tuesday.
SOrND LoGIC.-The following from the
MpGs' JoupaL of last week, could very
forcibly be applied to this county in many
instances
I'VE assert it icarlessly that at the pre-
sent day more than thrce-fourths 0fthe men
that seek office are totally unfit for the
positions they aspire to, and that is the
cause Of the bad legislation and the cor
ruption that prevails in public life. This
can only be corrected by the people dis
carding all ofIice-seekers unless they know
them to be both honest and competent, and
leave the office seek the man and not the
man the office.
4 Harrisburg Chicken-thiet left his pock-
ct-book, containing tax-reccipt and his
pane, in the coop. II he should be sent
10 the penitentary, the Democracy would
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