The Ketchum Keystone

A New Heating Project.
One of the schemes for future engineers to work at will be the sinking
of a shaft twelve thousand or fifteen
thousand feet into the earth for the
purpose of utilizing the central heat of
the globe. It is said that such a depth
is by no means impossible, with the improved machinery and advanced
methods of the coming engineer. Water
at a temperature of two hundred degrees centigrade, which can, it is said,
be obtained from these deep borings,
would not only heat houses and public
buildings, but would furnish power
that could be utilized for many purposes. Hot water already at hand is necessarily much cheaper than that which
must be taken when cold and brought
up to the required temperature. Once
the shaft is sunk, all cost in the item of
the hot-water supply ceases. The pipes,
if good, will last indefinitely, and as
nature's stokers never allow the fire to
go out, there would come in the train
of this arrangement many advantages.
When by sinking a shaft in the earth
we can secure a perpetual heating apparatus which we can regulate by the
turning of a key, one of the trials of life
will fade into nothingness.