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Both of us came to the conviction that the 'Izrah Concession' will pay, and pay well. But instead of the routine shafting and tunnelling it must be treated by hydraulicking and washing away the thirty feet of auriferous soil, whose depth covers the reef. The bed of the Fía will supply the water, and a force-pump, worked by men, or preferably by steam-power.
There are six methods for 'getting' the precious metal surfacing or washing; shallow-sinking; sluicing, or removing the earth through natural and artificial channels; deep sinking; tunnelling, and quartz-mining.
The dints which Thor made on the mountain-skull of Skrymir were types and forerunners of the later feats of the Teutonic race, performed on the rough, shaggy, wilderness face of this Western hemisphere, channelling it with watery highways, tunnelling and levelling its mountains, and strewing its surface with cities.
This was a very different place from what it had been during the winter, and being full of troops, the Battalion had only one-third of its former area in which to accommodate itself. Anti-aircraft batteries, tunnelling companies, transport lines, field hospitals, and observation balloons were everywhere. The training was complete.
She felt rather like a mole which has been working quietly in the dark, tunnelling a passage for itself, unseen and unsuspected, and which has suddenly emerged above the surface of the earth, much to its own and every one else's astonishment! Then, too, how utterly changed were her relations with Max Errington!
He explained to Chirpy that it was easy to dig in the garden, because its soil was loose. The ploughing in the spring, and the harrowing, as well as the hoeing that Farmer Green's hired man did during the summer, kept the earth in fine condition for tunnelling. Of course, living beneath the surface as he did, Mr. Mole Cricket had no way of knowing why the garden soil was so nicely stirred up.
And Monsieur Tudesco went on to relate how he was charged with very special duties to discover the underground passages which the instruments of tyranny had dug beneath the capital, tunnelling under the two branches of the Seine, for the transport of munitions of war.
The Little Woman saw at once, when he pointed it out to her, that she ought to drift and cut under the iron capping instead of tunnelling away from it as they had been doing. But she was not altogether engrossed in that tunnel.
Sterner measures had been decided on, and, in fact, had already been applied, when the prisoner escaped by tunnelling. This was the urgent advice of Von Tirpitz. The result is bad. Therefore, find him and have him silenced without delay. For a long time Vaux sat studying cipher and translation. And at last he murmured: "Surely, surely. Fine very fine.... Excellent work.
They talked or rather the men talked of Christopher's latest experiences abroad. He had been to the scene of a vast tunnelling operation in which his part was to come later. "They suggest we should take over their men's shanties as they stand." "Will you?" demanded Cæsar. These things were in Christopher's hands. "They might serve as material," he answered drily.
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