Show penniless miner bored 2000 root foot tunnel alone few feats have paralleled that of the miner W H schmidt who worked from 1906 to 1938 in dig gag a 2 foot tunnel through a granite mountain in kern county california realizing Rel izing such a tunnel was the only feasible way he could transport the ore from his claim to the outside world yet being too poor to purchase modern tools or employ help he did the job alone equipped only with a small jack hammer a lantern and a hand pushed truck for removing the loosened rock |