A River of Hot Water.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 20 June 1891, Page 2

A River of Hot Water.

The great Siitro Tunnel, cut to relieve the celebrated.,,. •pomstock miners, at Virginia City, U.S.A., pf the vast quantities of hot water which is encountered in them, affords an outlet to. 12,000,000 tons of water every twenty-four hours. Some of this, asit "finds &/,wp.y into the mines, has a temperature of 195 degrees, while four miles from the mouth -otllthe I tiinneljfche,^di^perawMch woul^^^se such a vasf^quantity '^jpfcp|>| > water gives' iofiiijjihe £k>w^ ;is j^iebMucted through the entire tunnel, four miles long, in a flume made of pins. At the point of exit.the water has lost but seven degrees r of heat. ; Sixty feet below the mouth of 3he tunnel the hot water is utilised 'Jtpk feirning machinery belonging the r company, from whence, it iscarriejjoff by *a tunnel 1000 feet.in length," "which serves as a waterway; Leaving the waste-way tunnel t the i watpr i flows to the Carson River, a mile anft a-half^ distant.

This hot water is .being utilised for many purposes/ Bqyß have arranged several pools where they indulge in hot baths. Miners and others use it for laundry purposes, and arrangements are being made whereby 1000 adres belonging to the company ate to be ' irrigated. It is proposed to conduct the hot water through iron pipes, beneath the surface of the soil, near the, roots of thousands of fruit trees,^whfch 1 ' are being planted, and,, in. a % similar manner, give the necessary ' Varinth to a number of hot-houses,-, to be used for the propagation of early fruits and vegetables, r , ; : ; : ■•»