Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1878 — Deep Mining Shafts. [ARTICLE]

Deep Mining Shafts.

The Chollar-Savage-Norcross shaft has reached a perpendicular depth of depth of 2,060 feet, and is now without doubt the deepest perpendicular shaft in America. It still lacks, however, 340 feet of having reached as great a perpendicular depth below the surface sis either the Savage or Imperial Consolidated iifefincs. If continued downward until the west wall of the Comstock lode is reached, it will have attained a depth of not far from 3,500 feet, and will then be one among the deepest—if not the deepest —perpendicular mining shafts in the world. Over a year ago the Adelbert shaft, sunk on a Bilver-lead mine in Prizibram, Bohemia, had reached a perpendicular depth of 3,280 feet, and is, probably tno deepest perpendicular shaft in the world. That is a very old mine, its workings dating back to the year 1500 or more. The attainment of that depth was celebrated at the time by the striking off of a large number of commemorative silver medals of the value of a florin each. There are other mines, however, where greater depths have boen attained than at the Adelbert shaft, but not in a perpendicular line. One of these is in the coal mines of Vivier Remus, in Belgium, where, by sinking and then boring, a depth of 3,542 feet lias been reached. Another is the Rock Salt Bore hole, near Sperenberg, not far from Berlin, Prussia, which, h few years ago, had reached a perpendicular depth of 4,175 feet. The deepest bore hole in the world is probably, the.artesian spring at Potsdam, in Missouri, which nas a depth of 5.500 feet.— Gold Hill ( Ncv .) News.

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