Show GOOSE NESTING in traveling through many of the mining camps of the west the visitor will come across numerous shafts which evidently had been sunk purposely and to no avail many of these no doubt might have reached their objective a ledge or vein had they been continued downward but work had evidently been discontinued for some seemingly unaccountable reason and yet in many instances the discontinuance could be very easily explained by the experienced mining man who would tell the visitor that when the shaft was started the collar was of regulation size at a depth of ten or twelve feet the man sinking the shaft conceived the idea that greater speed could be attained if a smaller hole was sunk and so the opening 6 was narrowed considerable A little deeper if the rock was hard the dimension of the shaft was appreciably decreased and the process of elimination of the size of the shaft went on until at length working space petered out almost entirely and the hole had more resemblance to a wedge than a working shaft then the man quit and started somewhere else for he was too lazy to enlarge the hole from top to bottom to correspond with dimensions men originally intended this is called goose nesting and is the cause for many failure in mining operations 0 |