twenty five (25) feet and struck water and was obliged to quit. In sinking another shaft about three miles from home? or
the sea in same charred but in foot hills and higer up and entirely off of the tundra I encountered only eight inches of frost
on surface found some cong illegible gravel about 30 feet down, which the miners at first thought to be frost. How could
the ground at shaft illegible freeze so deep? Of course the water I encountered was from Dry creek channel thawed down by
the presence of water and surface gravel. Last winter I erected on Snake River near home? for the Wild Goose illegible ing
and Trading Co. a 500 H.P. pumping plant for hydraulic purposes. The ground was same? as at shaft illegible we put 18 feet
of concrete into an excavation so far it is O.K., but in time water may thaw it some? , I am watching it and will 03200