The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-02-05
SHANGHAI ITEMS.

Mr.. Nathan KEGS is improving.
Mrs. J. c. White is slightly better
Miss Jennie Bishop is convalescing
Mr.. John Parkinson has recovered
from his recent attack of la grippe.
Mr.. James Harrison is the proud and
happy father Of boy. Two's pair,
Jim
Squire Myers is still housebound.
Take it easy Squire, read The WORLD,
and be happy.
Mr.. Ellis White will remove ON the
LIST prox. from Ganotown to Mr.. Silas
Bears, near Jones Spring.
Miss Anna Belle Pitzer, Of Arden,
and Miss Annie Clary, of Jones Spring,
are visiting Miss Fanny Kitchen.
Mr.. David Barnett, at Mrs. Gran
tham's, has little daughter very i'll.
DR.. Wiley. of Gerardstown, is doing
all he can for her.
Mr.. James Shickle, our new black
smith, is getting his shop in readiness
for customers Mr.. Shickle is from
Tomahawk, and has high reputation
as No. | mechanic and master of his
trade. Hope he will do well in our
burg.
There was skating yarty at Mrs.
M. Il. Worrelrs on Thursday evening,
given by her two sons, Messrs. Johnny
and Wesley Kitchen. Quite number
of the young people of the neighhor-
hood attended, skates in hands, and
enjoyed themselves hugely.
1t is with sincere regret we chroni-
Gle the serious illness of Mr.. Archibald
Myers, Sr., of Morgan County, father
of our worthy Magistrate, Mr.. John
Myers, of this place. Mr. Myers is a
remarkably active and well preserved
man for his advanced age, and wehope
his iron constitution will resist the in
roads of disease.
We visited the coal mine northwest
of Shanghai one afternoon last week
for the purpose of informing the nu-
merous readers of THE WORLD COP
corning its location, size, modus oper,
andi, etc.
The drift was opened on q level with
and directly west of, what is called the
first turn on ascending the noun
tain via the Hampshire Grade. The
entrance ana average width of tunnel
is seven feet height, nine feet Ii
runs horizontally directly under the
mountain; the object being, we learn,
to get exactly under the apex of the
mountain in perpendicular line
where, experts say, coal can be found
in abundance. The different varieties
of soil and rock through which the
miners have forced their way, are en-
tirely too numerous to describe in an
article of such brevity; suffice it to say,
they found a bed or vein of fire clay
of excellent quality and comparative
quantity and have struck several veins
of coal and black slate ranging from
one to two feet in width.
We We're piloted back under the
mountain, by the light Of a miners
lamp, for a distance of four hundred
and sixty feet and found the men drill
ing holes in remarkably hard rock OF
gray sandstone, with which they have
been contending fortnight or more.
The holes to receive the charges OF
dynamite are drilled in the solid rock
to a depth of eighteen to twenty-seven
inches at right angles, then, when the
.day shift" is ready to leave the mine,
the fuse is attached and the charges
fired before the g night shift" goes on
duty, and vice versa. Work is being
pushed asrapidly as circumstances will
permit. Messrs. Baird and Weston
are both practical miners of large ex-
perience and courteous gentlemen.
Our thanks are due Mr.. w. for the
patience with which he heard, and re-
piled to, our interrogatories. We
hope the capitalists, who are at the
head of the scheme, will persevere until
success crowns their efforts. 1t would
be grand thing for our valley
ELRE.