PUMPING ASSOCIATION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2041, 20 July 1875, Page 3

PUMPING ASSOCIATION.

The gass is. <bnt vof fthe shaft", * and the workmen are at the bottom. From tho fact that gas was there, it led the Manager, Mr Black, to institute oaquiries, inasmuch as the mere changing of buckets, a few hours' work, was not sufficient to account foxilitl' the', vatic/»tieing under / petfeoi control. On Saturday night, everything was in perfect order, neither fans nor furnace being required, to exhaust any gas. This is accomplished by means of the new air shaft lately completed from the 400, |<r f thej§oO;fe,et level,?.bnt»- the air is forced down this passage by the mine water turned back again down Tookey'a shaft. Thii had been deliberately stopped, some person having taken the trouble to plug up the fluming conveying the water; the.stoppagp of [this, column;of water.apd with' it, Ihe^ai^, caused thefimmediate settlement of gas, and the consequent loss of a day in exhausting it by means of the flume. This has t been accomplished, and the furnace died out. During the last five weeks it has been noticed that a thin layer, of; hard grey matter [had-"deposited itself upon the Working gear of the Tump', and where it has been allowed to accumulate, half an inch is visible, threatening to choke the rods. It is evidently of a lime formation depositing itself layer upon Jayer. upon jevery, part where the water can gain access.. The manager, Mr' Black, is'of opinion that tho source of this mischief lies in a flow of hot water issuing from out the side of the shaft, and in order'to'obviate the injury will endeavour to keep back the discharge by r boring into-the fissure and then firiuly plugging it! upi' at all events' have the effect of lessening the supply and decreasing the eviK