Show BORING FOR NATURAL it is said that it can be found two failes down the deepest well in the world will acon be completed near pittsburg pa it is now more than one mile deep and when finished it may reach down two miles into the earth it is being bored in the interest of science the object in penetrating so deeply la to determine just what the interior of the human footstool is like from a commercial point ot view the well was a success long ago A comparatively tew feet below the both gas and oil were struck in paying quantities but the company owning the plant determined to dedicate it to science and invited prot william hallock of columbia college to carry on a 0 temperature investigations aa the hole is carried deeper and deeper into the earth the results 0 these investigations are very interesting and it is the opinion of several well known scientists that the ultimate result of the boring will prove to be of widespread economic as well as scientific value mot significant of all the facts so far ascertained is that the well grows hotter as its depth increases it id the intention of the company to continua con linua the boring process until something new and original is developed this may seem a crude way of putting the statement ant it has long been a theory among well men that it it ie possible to RO deep enough some new geologic condition or economic feature would be found to exist at the veay least they claim natural steam would be en countered or the well walls would finally become eo hot that water could be pumped down cold and pumped up in the form of steam and thus the natural power of the future be obtained at any rate there ie material for much speculation and the interest becomes greater in increased ratio as the drill descends and a startling event is expected to happen almost any day one remarkable feature of the well ie that the gas found near the surface now aeed to operate the powerful engines which do the drilling thus the natural power already issuing from the well is utilized tor the of deepening it washington star |