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Show FAMOUS .MINE FIRM The famous mine fire which has been raging now for more than sixty years and which started at Summit Hill, near the spot where Phillip Gin-ter Gin-ter discovered anthracite coal in 1791, has hurried through the immense im-mense concrete wall which the Lehigh Le-high Coal & Navigation Company sank in front of it deep down into the earth several years ago at a cost of more than $1,000,000. It is now threatening the mammoth vein in the Panthree Creek valley, the largest and richest vein of anthracite in the world. The wall, which was sunk into the ground to a depth oT100 feet was 150 feet thick, of solid concrete, and experus believed that the subterranean subterran-ean fire would never eat through it, but that it would prevent it from spreading any further and eventually extinguish it. The fact that the flames have eaten through this huge barrier has caused grave fears among the Lehigh Coal & Navigation officials, who are now putting forth every possible pos-sible effort to prevent the fire from getting into the vast beds of anthracite anthra-cite in the vicinity. A large force of men is at work drilling holes deep into "the earth and into these openings water and slush is being poured directly on the subterranean sub-terranean fire in the hope of preventing prevent-ing a rapid spread and if possible to extinguish it. Already this fire has destroyed millions of dollars' worth of coal, while the sixty-year fight to extinguish extin-guish it has cost enormous sums. |