Produced by Diane Monico and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE INDUSTRIAL READERS _Book II_ DIGGERS IN THE EARTH BY EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D. _Author of "England's Story," "American Hero Stories," "Old World Hero Stories," "Story of the Greek People," "Story of the Roman People," etc. Editor of "The Children's Hour."_ [Illustration] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO THE INDUSTRIAL READERS By Eva March Tappan I. THE FARMER AND HIS FRIENDS. 50 cents. II. DIGGERS IN THE EARTH. 50 cents. III. MAKERS OF MANY THINGS. 50 cents. IV. TRAVELERS AND TRAVELING. 50 cents. The foregoing are list prices, postpaid COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY EVA MARCH TAPPAN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _First printing April 1916;_ _Reprinted December 1916_ The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS U. S. A. PREFACE The four books of this series have been written not merely to provide agreeable reading matter for children, but to give them information. When a child can look at a steel pen not simply as an article furnished by the city for his use, but rather as the result of many interesting processes, he has made a distinct growth in intelligence. When he has begun to apprehend the fruitfulness of the earth, both above ground and below, and the best way in which its products may be utilized and carried to the places where they are needed, he has not only acquired a knowledge of many kinds of industrial life which may help him to choose his life-work wisely from among them; but he has learned the dependence of one person upon other persons, of one part of the world upon other parts, and the necessity of peaceful intercourse. Best of all, he has learned to see. Wordsworth's familiar lines say of a man whose eyes had not been opened,-- "A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." These books are planned to show the children that there is "something more"; to broaden their horizon; to reveal to them what invention has accomplished and what wide room for invention still remains; to teach them that reward comes to the man who improves his output beyond the task of the moment; and that success is waiting not for him who works because he must, but him who works because he may. Acknowledgment is due to the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Jones Brothers Company, Alpha Portland Cement Company, Dwight W. Woodbridge, the Utah Copper Company, the Aluminum Company of America, the Diamond Crystal Salt Company, T. W. Rickard, and others, whose advice and criticism have been of most valuable aid in the preparation of this volume. EVA MARCH TAPPAN. CONTENTS I. IN A COAL MINE 1 II. DOWN IN THE QUARRIES 11