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This passageway was connected by the main one with a cross-heading, situated perhaps three hundred feet from the shaft.
Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher
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Will and Elmer were first to reach the cross-heading where the explosion of dynamite had taken place.
Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher
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A cross-heading was driven in each direction at the west end of the first heading; the bench was then shot down, and the first 10 ft. of the longitudinal heading was widened sufficiently to receive the center wall, Fig. 12.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke
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Will and Elmer were first to reach the cross-heading where the explosion of dynamite had taken place.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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This passageway was connected by the main one with a cross-heading situated perhaps three hundred feet from the shaft.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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It was clear that the figures and abbreviated words referred to the development of a cross-heading and the position of certain lodes, but Courtenay was quick to see that the official who made those notes would recognize them.
The Captain of the Kansas Louis Tracy 1895
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