 January, 1808, at forty feet in the rock, and fifty-eight feet from the top of the gum, were rewarded by an ample flow of strong brine for their furnace, and ceased boring. "Now was presented another difficulty; how to get the stronger brine from the...  Reports - Seite 131von West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey - 1899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Wesley Atkinson - 1876 - 366 Seiten
...i5th of January, 1808, at forty feet in the rock, and fifty-eight feet from the top of the gum, they were rewarded by an ample flow of strong brine for...— in all this region, and to bore a wooden tube forty feet long, and small enough in external diameter to go in the two and a half inch hole, was -impracticable... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury, William Morris Fontaine, West Virginia. State Board of Centennial Managers - 1876 - 494 Seiten
...continued the boring, and on the loth January, 1808, at 40 feet in the rock, and 58 feet from the top ot the gum, were rewarded by an ample flow of strong...neither metal tubes, nor sheet metal, nor metal workers —?ave a home-made blacksmith—in all this region, and to bore a wooden tube 40 feet long, and small... | |
 | Richard Urquhart Goode - 1899 - 426 Seiten
...and commenced, to build a salt furnace ; but while building, continued the boring, and on the 15th of January, 1808, at 40 feet in the rock, and 58 feet...were neither metal tubes, nor sheet metal, nor metal workers—save a homemade blacksmith—in all this region, and to bore a wooden tube 40 feet long,... | |
 | 1904 - 654 Seiten
...boring. Now was presented another difficulty; how to get the stronger brine from the bottom of the welli undiluted by the weaker brines and fresh water from...suggest itself to them; but there were neither metal tuben, nor sheet metal, nor metal workers — save a home-made blacksmith — in all this region, and... | |
 | Israel Charles White - 1904 - 652 Seiten
...decided and commenced, to build a salt furnace; but while building, continued the boring, and on the 15th of January, 1808, at 40 feet in the rock, and 58 feet...anew. A metal tube would naturally suggest itself to 1hum: but there were neither metal tubes, nor sheet metal, nor metal workers — save a home-made blacksmith... | |
 | West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey - 1904 - 676 Seiten
...decided and commenced, to build a salt furnace; but while building, continued the boring, and on the 15th of January, 1808, at 40 feet in the rock, and 58 feet...anew. A metal tube would naturally suggest itself to thorn; but there were neither metal tuber,, nor sheet metal, nor metal workers — save a home-made... | |
 | Franklin Lafayette Riley, Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Joseph Walker McSpadden - 1909 - 740 Seiten
...continued the boring, and on the 15th of January, 1808, at forty feet in the rock, and fifty-eight feet from the top of the gum, were rewarded by an...— in all this region, and to bore a wooden tube forty feet long, and small enough in external diameter to go in the 2^ -inch hole, was impracticable;... | |
 | Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell - 1909 - 748 Seiten
...continued the boring, and on the 15th of January, 1808, at forty feet in the rock, and fifty-eight feet from the top of the gum, were rewarded by an...contrive and construct anew. A metal tube would naturally snggest itself to them; but there were neither metal tubes, nor sheet metal, nor metal workers —... | |
 | 2007 - 319 Seiten
...continued the boring, and on the i5th of January, 1808, at forty feet in the rock, and fifty-eight feet from the top of the gum, were rewarded by an...— in all this region, and to bore a wooden tube forty feet long, and small enough in external diameter to go in the two and a half inch hole, was impracticable;... | |
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