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L5th to October 15th, 1904, inclu
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$20.00 to Helena and Butte,
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$22.50 to Huntington and
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$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
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Correspondingly low rates to
many other California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Utah, and
Idaho points.
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STARTLING PROJECT.
ENGLISHMAN WOULD DIG HOLE
TWELVE MILES DEEP.
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Would Solve Many Questions Un
known to the Scientific World—
Estimated Cost $25,000,000
and to Take 85 Years.
Experiments to be tried in the Wash
ington monument by officers of the geo
logical survey to try to determine the
; compressiveness of the earth’s mass,
’ | has awakened widespread interest in
scientific circles. Coming as it does on
the heels of a project broached by
( Charles Algernon Parsons, of England,
to bore a hole 12 miles into the earth,
the scientific world has much food for
* speculation.
Prof. Parsons estimates that to sink
a shaft 12 miles deep would cost $25,000,
000, and that it would require 85 years
to accomplish it. This shaft, cut down
into the earth, would represent the
equivalent of a hole one foot deep in a
mass 666 feet thick. It would solve
many questions that the scientific knowl
edge of the world has left unanswered,
yet it would investigate only the crust
and leave thousands of miles of the in
terior mass still untouched.
The amount of compression at the
globe’s center should, to some extent at
least, define the character of the mass
of which it is formed. It is argued that
the great mass of the interior of the earth
is solid. Against the contention that
the planet, under a crust 25 miles thick,
is a mass of fiery liquid is arrayed the
fact of the known density of the globe.
That density in the earth’s entirety is
about 5.5 times the density of the water
that covers three-auarters of the sur
face.
The assumption of a comparatively
thin crust requires, according to Sir
William Thompson, that this crust
should have a rigidity possessed by no
known substance. The sun exerts such a
strain upon the substance of the earth
that the planet could not maintain its
shape as it does, he maintains, unless the
supposed crust were at least 2,000 or
2,500 miles in thickness.
There is a gradual increase in the tem
perature while penetrating the surface
of the crust. This increase in some lo
calities is as rapid as one degree for each
56 feet of descent; in others one degree
for 75 to 85 feet.
In the Comstock silver mines of Ne
vada, at a depth of 3.065 feet, water has
a temperature of 170 degrees, Fahren
heit. The deepest excavations in the
earth are at the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mines in Michigan, where the longest
perpendicular shaft goes down 4,900
feet, while one of the standing shafts
is more than 8,000 feet irf length.
There are in these mines 250 miles of
lateral galleries. Colossal engines are
required to ventilate the immense subr
terranean city and to keep the tempera
ture endurable in the lower levels. All
deep mine borings prove how stupend
ously difficult would be the task of de
scending below the mile level.
At the lowest rate of increase in the
temperature in penetrating the earth, the
heat at the depth suggested by Mr. Par
sons, 12 miles down, would be 800 de
grees Fahrenheit. This heat, though far
from the fusing point of wrought iron,
(3,280 degrees), would render the use
of tools, even if the lower borings of the
shaft were constructed as they are In oil
wells, a difficult process. It would defy
the most colossal scheme of artificial re
frigeration to render such depths avail
able for entrance by human beings.
No considerations of commercial ben
efit enter Into the plans of Mr. Parsons
in suggesting the 12-mile boring into the
crust of the earth. It is a scheme purely
in the Interest of scientific knowledge.
ODD WILL OF RICH MAN.
Nephew Will Inherit Fortune from
Uncle After Saving Three
Tears as a Soldier.
“That he shall serve at least one full
term of not less than three years in
the ranks of the United States army,
at the expiration of which, if his dis
charge shall read: ‘Service honest and
faithful, character excellent,’ and shall
have reached the grade of a noncommis
sioned officer and bring to the executors
I herewith appoint a letter of com
mendation from the officer under whom
he served, I bequeath to the said George
O. Travis the sum of $130,000, knowing
that, after such service, he will have
had enough experience of the world and
disciplinary training to insure the
proper disposal of what has taken me a
lifetime to accumulate.”
Such are the terms of the will of the
late S. Houston, a wealthy man of Chi
cago, made to his nephew, George O.
Travis, a telegraph operator of Okla
homa. The other day the young man
became of age and appeared at the Unit
ed States army recruiting office and en
listed for the purpose of carrying out
the dying request of his uncle.
Mr. Houston was an old soldier, hav
ing served in the civil war in the Fourth
United States artillery. Unable to con
tinue an army career, Houston, having
no sons of his own, was determined that
his next of kin, his nephew, should be
come a soldier.
Young Travis said it was not neces
sary for his uncle to make that clause
in his will which makes service in the
United States army compulsory for him,
as he had always intended to enter the
army as soon as he was 21.
A Hole with a Future.
An English engineer proposes to find
out what is in the interior of the earth.
He will do this by digging a hole 12 miles
deep, provided with air locks and cool
ing apparatus. The work will require
85 years and cost $5,000,000. What pa
tience and effort those foreigners do ex
hibit, remarks the Chicago Record-Her
ald. la getting at the bottom of things.
PENNSYLVANIA ANTHRACITE
Tonnage of Last Year Exceeded by Six
Million Tons That of Any
Previous Year.
The year 1903 stands as the high
water mark of prosperity in tin
anthracite coal trade, as the tonnag<
for that year exceeded by more that
6,000,000 tons that of any prevloui
year, and the demand for coal was sc
good as to make it possible to dispose
of the product at prices whict
brought a fair return to all con
cerned in the industry. Some signifi
cant figures in connection with the
production of Pennsylvania anthra
cite during 1903 have been collected
by Mr. William W. Ruley, specia;
agent of the United States geologica
survey, and will be included in Mr
E. W. Parker’s report on the produc
, tion of coal in 1903, which is a regulai
feature of the survey’s annual volume
on the mineral resources of the Unitec
States.
At the commencement of 1903 there
was practically no anthracite in stock
as the amount which had been mined
after the strike of 1902 had gone
directly into consumption. All tha'
could be mined during the first three
months of 1903 was in immediate de
mand.
With the opening of navigation and
a reduction in price on April 1, dealers
at all points endeavored to lay in at
j ample supply of coal to meet their fail
and winter requirements. This made
| a brisk demand for the product dur
ing the spring and summer months,
with the resultant accumulation oi
J stocks in dealers’ hands. The early
arrival of cold weather, however, and
the prolonged severity of the winter
created an unusually brisk demand
lor coal.
In connection with the large pro
duction, it is interesting to note the
Increase in the shipments of the small
sizes of coal during 1903 over those ol
previous years. This is especially
noteworthy on account of the opinion
generally expressed at the close of the
anthracite strike, that bituminous
coal had largely supplanted anthra
cite for steam purposes, and would
continue to hold this trade to the
exclusion of the small sizes of the lat
ter product. On the contrary, how
ever, the consumption of these smaller
sizes of coal increased 2,468,694 tons in
1.903 over 1901. It would seem that
the only cause which would seriously
affect the prosperity of the anthracite
business is the general condition oi
the entire country. As long as the
people at large are able to buy anthra
cite, it will not want a market
It is also of interest to note an
Increase of 15 cents in the average
value per ton for coal at the mines
The total production was 66,351,713
tons, valued at $152,036,448. The aver
age price per ton was $2.50; the num
ber of men employed was 150,483; and
the average number of days that each
man worked was 206.
Tables are given in the report whicn
shows the production by counties foi
the years 1902 and 1903; also the ship
ments of anthracite and the propor
tion of sizes shipped. A tabular ar
rangement of the various sections ol
the anthracite fields is given, with a
list of ten railroads that enter the ter
ritory.
The anthracite fields comprise an
area of somewhat over 480 square
miles, and are located in the eastern
middle part of the state, in the coun
ties of Carbon, Columbia, Lacka
wanna, Luzerne, Northumberland,
Schuylkill and Susquehanna. They
are classed under three general divi
sions, namely, the Wyoming, Lehigh
and Schuylkill regions. Geologically
they are divided into fields or basins,
nuitu at o ogam ouuuiTiucu lUlU Ulo*
tricts.
The Bernice field, in Sullivan coun
ty, is not included in any of these re
gions. The classification of the prod
uct of this field is a matter of some
contention. The fracture of the coal
and some of its characteristics are
more like those of some bituminous
or semianthracite coals than strict
anthracite, but on account of its high
percentage of fixed carbon and low
percentage of moisture it is classed as
anthracite by the second Pennsyl
vania geological survey, and the
product is so included in this report.
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Philippine Supreme Court.
, Four Americans and three Filipinos
make up the supreme court of the Phil
ippines. The chief justice, C. Arellano,
is 57 years old, a native of the province
of Bataan. He was educated at the
Royal college of San Juan deLatran.and
at the University of St. Thomas, of
Manila. Under the Spanish regime he
held a Judgeship. For two years he
was justice of the territorial supreme
court at Manila, and then became pro
fessor of civil law at St Thomas, a po
sition he held for 16 years. Associate
Justice Florentino Torres is 60, a St.
Thomas graduate, and a specialist in
criminal law. Two of his sons are now
In the United States studying at Wash
ington. Justice Victorino Mapa, a na
tive of the province of Capiz, who was
born in 1854, is, like his two native as
sociates, a graduate of St. Thomas,
and a Manila lawyer.—San Francisco
Argonaut
Slight Mistake.
"Those large bumps,’’ said the phren
ologist, “would indicate that some of
your ancestors were eccentric."
“You’re up against it there^professor,”
replied the man in the chair; “they indi
cate an eccentric wife. Confine your ex
amination to the small bumps, please."
—Chicago Daily News.
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