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

II MIS-. y. ~. WHlte IL slgnCly UetUer.
i Miss Jennie Bishop is convalescing.
4 Mr.. John Parkinson has recovered
from his recent attack Of La grippe.
| Mr.. James Harrison is the proudand
happy father of boy. Two's a pair,
Jim
| Squire Myers is still housebound.
Take it easy Squire, read THE World,
and be happy.
i 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 Gerafdstown, 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 a high reputation
as No. ! mechanic and master Of his
trade. Hope he win do well in our
burg.
1 There was skating yarty at Mrs.
| NJ. E. Worrell's 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 III hands, and
enjoyed themselves hugely,
| 1t is with sincere regret we chroni-
Gle the serious illness Of Mr.. Archibald
Myers, ST., 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 we hope
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 con
corning its location, size, modus oper-
andi, etc.
The drift was opened on level with,
and directly west of, what is called the
" first turn ON ascending the noun
| tain via the Hampshire Grade. The
j entrance and average width of tunnel
| Is seven feet !; height, nine feet. 1t
il runs horizontally directly under the
mountain the object being, we learn,
to GET exactly under the apex Of the
mountaR III perpendicular line
where, expects say, coal can be found
! in abundance. The different varieties
9 Of soil and rocGhrough which the
9 miners have forced t6e way, are en-.
tirely too numerous to descrl6s an
= article of such brevity; suffice it toylg
4 they found q bed or VEN Of filsa ella
= of excellent quality and comparative
quantity and have struck several vein,
= Of coal and black slate ranging from
!, one to two feet in width.
9 We were piloted back under til,
7 mountain, by the light OF miner
lamp, for distance Of four hundred
and sixty feet and found the men drill
ing holes in remarkably hard rock o
gray sandstone, with which they hav,
been contending a fortnight or more.
! The holes to receive the charges .
dynamite are drilled inlthe solid rocl
to depth of eighteen to twenty-seyel
inches at right angles, then, when Oh,
1 "day shift" is ready to leave the mine
the fuse is attached and the charge
i fired before the I night shift goes OF
duty, and vice versa. Work is being
: pushed asrapidly as circumstances vii
I permit. Messrs. Baird and Weston
are both practical miners Of large ex
perience and courteous gentlemen
four thanks are due Mr.. w. for the
patience with which he heard, and Re,
t piled to. our heterogeneous. We
hope the capitalists, who are at the
head Of the scheme, will persevere until
I success crowns their efforts. 1t would
~ ~
be thing for our valley ELRE.