Show Electric Prospector Finds Fillds Coal Veins erns in in Pennsylvania NEW YORK The The same sam technique of using electrical prospecting methods often ofte likened to electrical electriC 11 divining rods which rods which has worked so successfully in discovering oil gold and other minerals minerals is now being used to find deposits of coal In n Pennsylvania Scientists told the meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers here that the he new electrical methods based on how low well wen wena a seam of coal conducts electricity were successful in the Mahanoy coal fiel fields s which alrea already y have lave been worked for 70 years Locating Anthracite Pits Most of the coal seams Dr Mau Maurice rice Ewing A. A P P. P Crary J J. J W. W Peo Pea Peoples Peoples ples pies and J. J A A. A Peoples Jr describe In n their report were worked near the surface in the past but since the workings s were never completely or accurately mapped complete extraction ex- ex ex extraction traction of the coal from older pits pits' was not obtained In consequence they hey point out virgin ln bodies of coal not heretofore known are yet et to be found |