| Show Lost Workers Build Mine For By DICK MacFARLANE If you are afflicted with claustrophobia and plan to take mining Unknown to most the university school of mines maintains a model mine at the south-cast comer of the and it a healthy place for those souls with a morbid fear of enclosed Built several years ago with government and state the university mine is designed to get embryonic minors accustomed to spending the rest of their lives in the bowels of Mother The hole was originally excavated by a score of courageous workers who wanted to get away from it Their bodies haven't yet been Entrance to the mine is barred by a sinister iron door securely locked with a huge padlock of ancient Only graduates of a class of Advanced Necromancy and Thaumaturgy have the sufficient know-how to get past the forbidding portals of the Once the visitor is confronted with a long meandering known technically as a The main drift is feet as the bat Cross drifts and miscellaneous passages measure while the lower level drift is feet in The mine's foreman and crew is composed of two Wayne Burt and Lawrence who spend their afternoons in their little glory hole knocking the bats off the roof and stopping up leaks I from faulty city water mains which have a bad habit of springing leaks directly above the main The main level of the mine is 30 feet below the surface while a second reached by an unsteady ladder with several heart-stopping rungs is 65 feet The mine boasts a complete lighting system which makes the traditional miner's lamps as useless as a folding bed in an old maid's The drifts are ventilated by a large fan when it gets wound circulates cubic feet of air per making the university mine the windiest place on the next to the Park The mining school announces that visitors whose insurance premiums are paid up are welcome to visit the mine any time they |
