The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-04-27

CeClocS thIt labor performed, or In:
provcmcnts made by an original loca.
tor, cannot be claimed by HIM as a
part OF the expenditures necessary to
en;,tle him toa patent for relocation.
Aiming and Sr'tnn6f Press.
CONSTOCK S.fLA.N4NDERS:
Ii there are to be found anywhere
in the world set Of human salaman:
ders we may clam the credit of hav-
ing them here on the Comstock:
What would scorch man who lives
wholly on the surface chllls a miner
INJURED to the heat Of the lover levels.
A miner who has been for some
months past working IN one of the
hottest sections Of the Comstock, a
day or two since, gave an Ente,py1si
reporter his experience OF the heat
which miners are often called Upon to
encounter He says that in workirs
at points where the thermometer
marks temperature of ITS to 12o
degrees, great thirst is experienced:
No ice water is too cold to be swal-
lowed with relish Men 90 to the
water barrel in which huge chunks of
ice are floating about, and will take
their picks and chop up the ice in OF.
der that the water may he rendered
colder by being filed with fine frag-
ments. Often this does not satisfy
them, and they chew and swallow
Jumps Of ice
The natural temperature Of the hu;
man bod:-cl the blood-is about
! nlnety-eisht degrees Fahrenheit /.
therefore, when a man remains in ,
hot place for an hour, or even half an
hour, his blood, his whole body, he
comes heated to temperature of lis
or 12o degrees, or whatever may be
the temperature OF the place in which
de IS at work. II is then that the min
ers begin to pour down ice water and
eat ice. The strangest thing about
the business is that ii does not hurt
any Of the men. OiIen they swallow
such quantities OF ice water that lheil
stomachs will not retain It, and in
vomiting it Up it will feel cold in their
mouth and against their teeth. All
they DO on such occasions is to swallow
more Of the same water, but more
cautiously.
When men are working in extreme
ly not places the temperature of the
! place to which they come to cool off
the cooling-ofi station-is probably
100 degrees. This temperatufe-
which would almost roast surface
man-appears cool to man who has
come from place where the ther-
rnometer marks no to rs degrees.
In place where the thermometer is
ninety degrees the man will feel so
cold as to shiver. Often at the cool
ing-off station, where the temperature
IS 100 degrees, tie perspiration will
cease, and the man win begin to feel
very uncomfortable. On leaving and
going back again to where the tenn
perature is from rs to 12o, as the
/ perspration begins to start, there is
/ 10! minute or two an intolerable
itching over the whole body. As each
closed pore reopens 1t produces a
singing sensation. However, as soon
as there IS free flow Of persplrat,on
all this trouble ceases and the man
feels quite comfortable and so remains
until his whole body-blood, flesh
and bones-again reaches a tempera-
ture OF from 10 10 i2o. when he be-
comes wild for ice water and ice. IS
it not little strange-when we con-
slider that ninety-eight degrees Of heat
is the natural temperature of the
blood-that serious results do not fol-.
low exposure to degree Of heat al
most sufficient to cook the blood in
the veins.-Nrgnia City. (Mfv.)
! Enterprise.
Twenty-one sea lions which were
iassoei on the coast 400 miles north