Connecticut western news., 1905-11-30
WEST CORNWALL

Workmen are installing the new pipe organ at North Cornwall this week. Thanksgiving service will be held there on Thursday of this week and it is ex- pected that the ofgan will sound forth it first peal.
 The ladies aid gave @ supper at the chapel on Wednesday evening last week. There was quite large attendance.
 Mrs. Wm. H. Fully and Miss Mollie Belcher spend Thanksgiving in Phila- delphia.
 Frank Bedat has gone to Philadelphia to secure employment in shear shop there.
 Mir and Mrs. H. M Pratt gave re- port at the church on Sunday evening of the Sunday school convention held ill Hartford recently.
 Patrick O'Donnell, who has been caring for Patrick O'Connor at the home of Mrs. Dicto on Sharon mountain, has removed his patient to his own home here and is caring for him.
 "Capt. Jack" Crawford will be with us on Friday night of this week. Il would be we'll for outside parties who contemplate hearing this great feature | to make arrangements for seats.
 Reports from Dr. John W. Ives at Milford indicate that the people of that town are giving him fattering recog. milton of his medical services, because oi the fact that he is already receiving 8 | lucrative practice.
 | KAoLIN PROSPECTS. MT. M. Warmer has for several months past been experimenting at the Kaolin company mines for the purpose of en deavoring to find a cheaper and better process of mining the kaolin than the ways it has been mined i'll the past MT. Warmers plan is to drive large 1 pipe down into the body of the clay an6 then insert much smaller one and by forcing stream of water down the inner pipe the hydraulic pressure will bring the clay to the surface through the space between the two pipes.
 Heretofore several plans have beer tried. The first one was by sinking 6 shaft and trying to mine it. This l proved failure owing to the inability tC make any shaft strong enough so that il would sustain the heavy pressure against it. The second was by uncovering il and washing it and then passing the clay through a hot air compressor. This scheme failed for the reason that the i machinery did not separate the particles of mica from the clay and the product was worthless.
 The next scheme was continuation of the last, uncoverlng the earth from the deposit of kaolin and by hydraulic process pumping it onto a series of troughs and washing out the foreign matter and then drying the clay for market.
 The trouble in the past has been that the cost of production has made the con tinued operations unprofitable. Probably not less than $10O, 1000 has been spent il the past six years in experimenting upon the problem of mining it.
 It is now proposed to pipe the clay foi distance of six miles down an easy grade to the Kaolin Go. property about a mile above the village.
 This plan is hardly feasible for the reason that the density of the kaolin will require large supply of water tc carry it down i'll pipes laid in this man ner and the water supply at the mines is a very limited one. The present scheme of mining the clay for pottery purposes, if unsuccessful, will probably be the last.
 The supply of kaoln is unlimited running some 200 feet in depth and from one-half to mile in length, vary ing in breadth from 200 to 400 feet.
 The only problem is the excessive cost of production.