. The Saturday evening post. 1 Dry a thousand feet below ground. GOULDS FROM surface workings the ancient Greeks minedenough coal to forge their armor and that was not the beginning of mining as we knowit. Not until there were pumps to expel water—andthus admit men and machinery to Earths hiddenstore of treasure—did modern industry get its start. Deep mining came with the invention of the steamengine—coupled to pumps. Deeper went the minerswhen electricity was harnessed for pumping. Deeperstill lies the coal supply of the future. Do you know that for every ton of anthracite coalmin
. The Saturday evening post. 1 Dry a thousand feet below ground. GOULDS FROM surface workings the ancient Greeks minedenough coal to forge their armor and that was not the beginning of mining as we knowit. Not until there were pumps to expel water—andthus admit men and machinery to Earths hiddenstore of treasure—did modern industry get its start. Deep mining came with the invention of the steamengine—coupled to pumps. Deeper went the minerswhen electricity was harnessed for pumping. Deeperstill lies the coal supply of the future. Do you know that for every ton of anthracite coalmined eleven tons of water must be pumped? Besides expelling water, as mine shafts sink deeper,pumps provide it—water to fight fire, water to layexplosive dust, drinking water, boiler-feed water,water to wash coal, water to quench coke. To stop the pumps in a coal mine means cave-ins,flooding, disaster. In solemn compact miners andowners agree never to call out the pump men. Strikesmay rage, but the pump men must stick. Pumpsmust carry on—to keep up the
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