File:Marvels of the new West - a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River - comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels (14784885893).jpg

Identifier: marvelsofnewwest1889thay (find matches)
Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
Subjects:
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
haft, whence it is lifted to the surface ofthe earth. The Chrysolite Mine of Colorado has from seven toeight thousand feet of drift. The reader will observe that the mine is heavily timbered through-out. This is necessary in both shaft and drift to prevent caving,and assure safety to the miner who is obliged to adopt a subterra-nean life. It is a dark abode, so that the best artificial lighting is 452 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. required. The miner must wear a light on his cap, in addition tothe reflectors which illuminate his underground workshop. The depth of mines varies from fifty to twenty-five hundred feet.Many of them are one thousand feet deep. Several in Colorado areover thirteen hundred feet in depth ; and there is one in Nevadasunk twenty-five hundred feet into the bowels of the earth. What aplace for a human being to live and labor in ! On the next page, veins of gold or silver are represented, with shaftsunk so as to cut them, or to reach them bv its drifts. The veins can be
Text Appearing After Image:
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. worked above and beneath, as well as at the sides, by the men in thedrifts. A vein may extend to such a length as to make it practicableto sink several shafts. When a profitable mine is fairly in operation, a building is erectedover the entrance, provided with all the room and appliances neces-sary to carry on the work in summer and winter. For the change ofseasons does not trouble the miner at work a thousand feet belowthe earths surface, nor even the change of temperature. Summerand winter are about the same to him. MARVELS OF MINING. 453 GOING INTO A MINE. * A. A. Hayes, Jr., has an amusing description of his descent intoa Colorado mine, in his instructive book, New Colorado, and weextract it for the entertainment of our readers at this point : — * Entering a rough wooden building, you see a steam-engine turn-ing an immense drum, around which is coiled a wire rope. On achair sits, with each hand on a lever, the bright, watchful engineer,his eyes fixed on the

Note About Images