"We also bore thousands of artesian wells throughout the country, some
of them to the depth of five thousand feet, for artesian water, gas, and
petroleum, and occasionally we locate fine bodies of coal by those means
and those that we don't need to supply the market we cap and stop the
flow and use them in the future, always using the best flowing wells for
the present time. When we have to use drainage tunnels for our mines we
carry the water off from the mouth of the tunnel in a flume, placing
quicksilver in the riffles, and if it is a copper mine we place scrap
iron in the water and we also use the water for power to assist us in
mining, so that at the present time we extract and reduce ore at a lower
rate than in other parts of the world, for there is no wastefill
management and no overproduction, for in all our mining operations we
work those that cost the least, and we operate our coal mines in the
same way."
I thanked him for the courtesy shown me and took the train for the
capital, and my next visit was to the Department of Education.
CHAPTER VII.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
I was ushered into the office of the Minister of Education and was
introduced to a charming lady who filled that position with signal
ability.
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