Show Ill J J Puzzle for Scientists to Worry Over I never > Tiber i Articles Dropped in Cnlumot I erooua Mine Shaft Always Found 7 8111 Clinging to East Sidoinvest 7vordj words i igatlbn Going On the Ife ilmsell It is an interesting scientific fact id thej and ono not generally known that entlj nothing that falls from tho mouth of roduc the deepest mining shaft in tho world floor ever reaches the bottom This has JJgbt been demonstrated at tho famous Red ometl Jacket shaft of the Big Calumet The ythe article no matter what shapo or size n 110 It t may be Is Invariably found clinging pen to tho cast side of the shaft Ono day a monkey wrench was Slap dropped but it did not get to tho wrjrj bottom It was found lodged against up a tho cast side of the shaft several hun sheer dred feet dcwn This incident coming irlei tl com-ing to the attention of tho Michigan rgns College of Mines it was decided to make a careful test of the apparent phenomenon It was decided best to use a small but heavy spherical body and a marble tied to a thread was I suspended about twelvo feet below 1 the mouth of tho shaft When the marble was absolutely still assuring that it would drop straight down tho I thread was burned through by the flame of a candle The marblo fell l Mt but at a point 50 feet from the surface sur-face brought up against tho east wall of the shaft The same would be the case were a man to fall Into tho shaft While it would mean sure death tho body badly torn would bo found lodged in the timbering on tho east side Members Mem-bers of tho faculty of tho College of Mines are now engaged In experiments experi-ments with a view of developing data as to tho thickness of the earths crust It is not doped to solve tho perplexing problem of the distribution of the earths matter but It Is hoped to add to tho information collected concerning it To this end the Red Jacket shaft presents advantages possessed by no other place In the universe Tho deep shafts In other parts of the country coun-try and in foreign lands generally began be-gan at an altitude and end above or very little below the sea level whereas where-as at the Calumet mine tho Red Jacket Jack-et shaft starts in a comparatively low altitude and pierces tho earths crust deeper and further below the ocean level than any other In existence It is hoped within a year to be able to give some Intelligent Information regarding re-garding tho investigations Lake Lin I den correspondence St Paul Dispatch |