WEALTH UNDER PARIS
WATER AND GAS FOR CITY.
PARIS, June 29.
An inexhaustible supply of pure water from Mont Blanc, and a. volume of gas sufficient to light the city for a century.
According to the Abbe Mermet, these are the subterranean treasures at the disposal of Paris as soon as she chooses to adopt means of utilising them. Tho Abbe, who has achieved fame as a water diviner, startled an influential scientific audience in the Salle Wagram by the conviction with which he expressed himself regarding these possibilities. There is, he declared, quite close to Paris, at a depth of about 1,600 feet, a river comparable to the Seine. It is a stream, forming a diverted section of a great flow of water having its origin at Mont Blanc. The water is of the purest type, and is capable of giving Paris a supply of more than 200,000 gallons a minute. Nor is this all. Not far from this subterannean river there exists, tho Abbe declares, a vast volume of gas which, if utilised for the use of man, might be expected to illuminate Paris for 100 years.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1932, Page 9
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