Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-04-07

Tropical Rains in the Bowels
Of tho Earth.

Tropical Rains in the Bowels
Of the Earth.
Werk Going en 1t the 1850 Lowell
The Prsgress Of Bkaking she Beet
that Gam - Made - UmbrcllAed
l.Amps-A Big Gamble IN the Fu-
ture.
A SENTINEL reporter took . trip 70 the
LOGAN shaft yesterday under the pilosage
Of supt. Read. The point Of departure Of
explorations Wa the ONCE ct the new
shaft in which Mr.. Read came 90 near
giving up the ghost when the accumulator
burst. That probably unaccountable ex-
plosion has had the effect Of making every
body about the premises very cautious, not
70 say very nervous. The men In charge
Of the engine Jumbo" are ON the qui
virs ovory minute. and when Mr.. Read
goes into the Office the first thing he does
is to SEQ how near they have come to an
other grand smash. In the corner there
10 Z clock-like indicator get up against the
W0lA BLU OV0o0otCQ Wtt0 onO U08AnVs ~
the pressure Of steam increases Z little
black hand moves forward. When the
pressure 10 taken Of IL does not go back,
bat stands, until it IL pushed back, - the
record Of the highest pressure Of steam
put on since the previous visit Of the Gu
perintendent. He alone haA the key to
this little machine, and II il Z most singu-
lar and complicated key. In the csse Of
another explosion this tell-tale concern
will either exonerats the engineer from
blame, or convict him ~ the agent Of the
catastrophe, that ID, unless IL be caused BY
some power independent Of his engine.
PRKPARMa ron Z
The LOGAN shaft 10 peculiar in several
respects. The pumps and engines and
motive power used are peculiar, and then
there ;s . peculiarly that strikes you
when you have descended the immense
hole far enough. Two suits Of rubber
we're brought In, hats and al, which Hu-
perintendent and quid nunc soon filed
out gracefully. While standing about
the mouth OF the shaft tho former gave
the latter I chilly intimation of moisture
in the following little story.
A MILD NANnxzED NAN.
Said he: lyon know lis : little bit wet
down there sometimes, and ! wouldn't be
surprised II W should run into . shower
You know Tom Coonan? Well,
he il one OF our engineers. He Is, /
the mildest hammered man you
saw. His place ID on top, but he
went below the other day. Tho boys gave
q cost that looked ill right aud he
IS fearless Of . deiuge as Q duck
IL Of . puddle. Well. he went down, and
somehow or other the boys didn't have
any occasion TO send the cage down again
for three quarters Of an hour. When
Tom came up he-swas he wetY Oh, yes,
just . little. We thought II we could
send him down occasionally we might dis
pense with our pumps. But he didn't
make any long speech. BE only asked
What in the hi had become
Of that cage r"
DOWN, DOWN.
Seated high up in the riggings. above .
load Of timbers, Mr.. Read aud his (for
occasion) fidus achates tsee log book
~ Colonel Perry's, went smoothly down,
down into the inky darkness for $50 feet.
Then there WAS an instan saneous flicker Of
light ct that citation, which. . moment
seemed to go ont In . shower
rain that fell upon the cage. The rain
grew harder and harder until the cage
1t the 1860, when it fell in tor
rents, such ~ travellers tell about in the
regions. II seemed to descend in
Ipouts, a. il from . thousand little hy-
turned loosc eco feet above, and
struck with the accumulated force Of that
descent. 1t was = chilly, bnt interesting,
spectacle, there IT tho bottom Of the shaft,
10 see four miners and Foreman Stinson,
Is divers, with the windows Of
heaven opened upon them, struggling with
putting them In place for another
vet. Aud it Il . queer lamp they use. for
; candle couidn't live in such q torrent
md splash. The lamp is attached TO the
timbsring in a upright position. It con-
tains ct the top . reservoir Of coal oil,
runs down . pipe . foot or two into
|ets, from which the 1ame issues. These
|sts are protected BY IN umbrella Of tin,
md burn brightly despite the violent rain
lall and spray.
Ynoolxss or woax.
The shaft u now down 1850 feet. Yes
terday the miners were timbefing prepare
tory TO further sinking. Fifteen feet have
been sunk during the week. This u on
sidered drst-rate progress. II II hard
work, and IL feet per week h regarded ~
The most that cAn be accomplished. The
Il hard Limestone at present.
md delay b caused BY necessary blasting.
TEE WATER sup1Lx.
The question ~ to the source Of water
the LOGAN shaft has presented : prob
lem 81 once interesting and annoying. II
d q serious embarrassment 70 work. the
pumps having 70 b kept going every. mo-
ment TO keep the bottom Of ths shaft from
being flooded. Until recently the water
has been pumped up to the $50 level Of the
new shaft. which c0rresponds with the
| 200 level Of the old works, and emptisd
that channel. II has been the
theory Of many shat this water al ran
back, and that hsnce the sAms water WA
being pumped up and out over and again.
This notion has been practically dir
For the last three weeks
Ihs water has been pumped 70 ths surfacs.
but no decrease in thesupply b d~iscsrnabie.
4 tank containing 1000 gallons = raised
atss. Thus 500 gallons are thrown ont
must b kept up incessantly. IN order that
,eems clearly proven that the water dis
through the ESQ level does mot
return Into the LOGAN shAft.
ALL II ORDER.
Everything about tho works and IN the
hiatt seems 10 be In perfect order, and
work ID progressing - smoothly and -
q possible. It will be about three
yce before any result can b o.
pected from what II o going on. or
iathsr down. When The shAft has been
Junk 400 fest explorations will b. started
rom that point, and : drift run some 400
Il $50 fest TO strike the ledge. Those who
want 10 gamble will then have : big
10 Do 70. II orr d struck IL the
lssp workingu { few shares Of Eureka Con.
Will BE- : fortune, and The prosperous