Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-30
DkEPfSr or ALL HOLES.
shan Nearly 1900 Fest
Deep.
a Has the Nextto the Deepest Hole in
Wcfld---how the Wateris Pumped
From It---WOnderful Work
Under Ground.

snla ClrT, August l6.-So many
enterprises in every department OF
indEsry at the same moment occupy
"a and thoughts Of the American
hat he same attention is not attrae-
any single undertaking that would be
to q matter of equal importance in
ID World. In the long occupied
les Of Enrope the greater part OF the
~ improvements required either for
esent convenience or the future sd-
hsat Of the inhabitants have for gen
. been completed, and il is only at
intervals thar some new aud great
! decided upon a. thing necessary
None. When the Mont Gents tunnel
clog exeavated through the Alps, as
tring vas advanced foot By foot uu-
towering peak OF the Grand WALTON,
ogress Of the work was almost daily
and commented upon throughout
the Meissen deep mining tunnel,
y, Baron Won Hsrdsr said:
BE execution of q work which, in time
le will be elassed in the list of those
National monuments which have for
ltbject the lasting welfare Of 8 country,
rbieh VIII serve the same for the latest
lions and times. cannot be left to q
lining district, but should be looked
~ q work creating happiness and
mud worthy of the participation and
ron BY the entire nation
.4king Of the same work, Alexander
iumbcldt said:
Alsy be permitted to add that a subter-
n work 50 bold and gigantic should
q eleyating feeling OF moral strength
sople Who do not estimate their own
Pby the number Of souls, but By their
ism. This feeling becomes psrticu-
npoEtans in times when everybody
bto q pAlry sppeaSing of momentary
and sn undertaking which, in con-
ais strife, creates for q distant fu-
uss appear ennoblsd and Of superior
|
rshs."
5ould bsS matter of pride to the PEG
he Uui.ed>Sta.es to know that within
boundaries is$hs deepest vertical shaft
kAmerican continent, and the second
Y IN the whole world. This is What is
IS the Combination shaft, on the
ok lode at Virginia City, Nevada
ing sunk By the Chollsr, Potosi,
Norcoss and Savage Mining Com
hence its name Of the Combination
This shaft has now reached a per
,,alar depth of 3 little over 3,l00 feet.
is only one deeper vertical shaft IN
!, sld-ths Adalbent shaft of the silver
zines OF Przibram, Bohemia, which at
scecnnis had reached depth Of $3.50
esSttainment of that depth was made
ecAsion Of Q festival, which continued
lays, and was still further honored by
sESing of OF CONNIE morstiye medals
ngalue of form each. There is no
alof the beginning Of work on this
Prnbram, although its written his
Is back 70 1927. Recently sn ele-
commemorative volume has been pub
in regard TO this shaft, Of which an
paper says:
most interesting TO those who have
for the aetualihes or the antiquities
pg industry"
ity years ago very few mining shafts
: GRID had reached a depth Of 1000
ne very deepest at that time was in
O'hfsreas mine in Hanover, which
carried down 1900 feet; bat this
Oably not single perpendicular
--srsieal shafts near Gilly, in Bel
-, ~nk to the depth OF :, SAT feet
ocs..s they are connected by 3 drift,
<.ek an exploring shaft or Winze is
"A further depth OF Go feet, sRd from
In was put down 8 bore hole 10 feet
= making the total dspihEeached
fe-t As the bore hole did not reach
g 4 OF coal sought for, they returned
med operations at the 2,S4T level.
rope 1t is thought worthy OF psrtic-
~ Mat there are vertical shafts OF the
veg depths.
- Feet
shaft Of the Luganer Coal Mining
|
Sad Of the OberhaKtz silver niue,
neasberg, Hanover. az
raft Of the RoSsbridgs Co,liery,
Fol- lancashire, England .....-.......;...2 -
- - mines OF st. Luke, near st.
re At France. 53
|hnait, Shemnitz, Hungary ........ -.......l, IS2
4 Camphausen shaft. near Ftshbach, in
trtment OF the Saarbruck Galleries,
4.----...- 'o0O
a, aking the mines of the ComstOck