Show A DEEP HOLE A hole has been sunk in weaverville Wea verville trinity county five feet in diameter and over seven hundred feet deep the diggers of it have gone through the top bed rock of granite layers of cobble stones sand quartz cement ae at the depth of one hundred cind and fifty feet the water became very troublesome after getting below the spring at the depth of two hundred and twenty feet the air became so foul that a small clay furnace with a long hose attached was placed at the he mouth of the well which has been cowit constantly antly purified since by the fire in the furnace there has been no blasting though boulders of twenty feet i ic n thickness have been penetrated the gold has been found in all the stratas and in the rock it is thought the shaft will be sunk four or five hundred feet deeper before the lower bed rock is struck |