. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. i (!MihiBk5a mil ^^ iLiHi iiiiii S MASMINCrOfil Fig. 4.—DiAGEAH Illustrating Height of SIines., To describe the mine, -vee will in imagination compare it to a, house ofenorin,ou8 altitude and vast dimensions on the eartli ; tliis house Tvouldrequire to be 2000 ft. high, with 20 stories or lloors, each 100 ft. Itis safe to say that such a b
. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. i (!MihiBk5a mil ^^ iLiHi iiiiii S MASMINCrOfil Fig. 4.—DiAGEAH Illustrating Height of SIines., To describe the mine, -vee will in imagination compare it to a, house ofenorin,ou8 altitude and vast dimensions on the eartli ; tliis house Tvouldrequire to be 2000 ft. high, with 20 stories or lloors, each 100 ft. Itis safe to say that such a building was never constructed, and never will bain this world. To an observer in Wall street, or on Broadway, New York, MTN-EES FATNTTITG FROM HEAT. 941 THnity Church presents an imposing spectacle, but our imiiginarj building,representing the Consolidated Virginia mine, would be nearly 7 times liit;he»fIn the mines on the Comstock lude there arc 10> miles of drifts, galleries,cross-cuts, shafts, winzes, tc, and as one mine <o nccts •with aiMt^.-r tl, Avhat might be called streets, 3 miles long. Tuc n all lighted with lamps and candles which are always ki ■■ at nuiuberof engines are in operation in the lower levels 1.
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