Word: subsoilers
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...impressed by the" grandeur of this edifice. Said he: "They must have passed the hat around several times to build all this." Of the catacombs, the Mayor remarked: ". . . Nice fresh tombs, 2,000 years old. . . . Wish we could find a few cata- combs in New York's subsoil. It would save us a lot of money when we build subways...
...question is purely political. There are two systems of law in Mexico. One is for all the people on every matter. The other is for foreigners in the oil business. According to old Mexican law dominion over the subsoil would put oil business in governmental control. The prevailing law now gives the owner the right to all oil and coal. The Mexican government is reactionary in its attempt to get back to the old theory of dominion over the subsoil."C. G. T. LUNDELL...
...individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found their open pits were becoming death traps as "mud rushes" (slides) caved in upon them from the perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter of course, but subsoil mining is expensive. It was in forming the great mining syndicates which bought out the open pit "little fellows" and sunk deep mines that such men as Cecil Rhodes amassed great fortunes- and Barney Barnato was not far behind Rhodes...
...dirt" descending into the earth to a depth of half a mile or more. At first the area can be worked from the surface by the individual prospector. Later, as the pay dirt funnel is excavated, disastrous slides begin to occur and corporations must be organized to undertake expensive subsoil mining, which has been carried to a depth of 2600 ft. in some instances. Great diamond mining fortunes, like that of the late Cecil Rhodes, are usually made by the astute organizers of such corporations, which are able to buy the "worked out" surface properties of small prospectors...
...result of Mexico's claiming title to all mineral and other subsoil deposits by virtue of Article 27 of the 1917 Constitution (TIME...