PUMPING ASSOCIATION.
* The depth of the shaft is now 597 feet; 12 feet "being sunk during the two weeks past, besides filling air boxes to within working distance of the bottom. The class of country is -firm, good shooting ground, and no difficulty experienced, in
sinking, owing to the efficient'means "of ventilation, the only precaution necessary being lighting the furnace during Sunday, to compensate for the working of buckets up and down the shaft on that day, otherwise the gas might be hung towards the floor. The shaft is now out to a greater »Vfß, itatall feet 6 inches to 15 feet, in order to afford room, for the plunger chamber. , ; ■- - . . : -
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2095, 21 September 1875, Page 2
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111PUMPING ASSOCIATION. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2095, 21 September 1875, Page 2
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