August 10, 1890 - Messrs. Jacob Arndt and Joe Davis, who are sinking a coal shaft on the John Day river report their work progressing with satisfactory results. They have now reached a depth of 115 feet and are going down at an average of 15 feet per day. They have a steam drilling machine which they procured at a cost of $1,400 and which is doing excellent work. The material they are penetrating is of a hard sand rock, “gritty enough for grindstones,” Arndt says, and tough on the drills. Liberal quantities of genuine coal are found at intervals, and the signs are indicating of a rich ledge when the right level is reached. The prospectors expect to descend to the depth of 600 feet, and are quite sanguine that their highest hopes will be realized in the opening up of a large and valuable coal interests.
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