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88 REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF MINES. Off. Doc. coal, and the accidents should be rated with the production of coal. To comijaie the accidents of coal mining with the accidents of railroads computed according to railroad methods is unjust to coal mining, although the records are in the favor of the management of coal mining. The railroads have only one class of accidents, those incident to the transmission of trains. To do this work they are not cramped for room, for they ai-e in the open air and have day light and what a miner would consider an extraordinarily good light at night. In the mines it is entirely different. The transmission of the mine cars has to be done through narrow passages where the space is rarely over three feet wide outside of the tracks and is frequently too low for a man to raise his head. Dangerous roof has to be timbered and re-timbered. Floors are heaving, throwing tracks out of order. Ventilation has to be provided. Noxious and explosive gases are unceasingly emitted, and enormous quantities of explosives have to be handled and consumed. The safety of every man is dependent on the unfailing speed of machinery and that no man or boy makes a mistake or a mis-step. The emplojes of a railroad are selected with care, while very little regard as to the fitness of a person is paid when persons are employed for the mines. The law regulating the qualification of miners is worse than a farce. There never was such an incompetent class of miners employed as there is now. This has been reported by the mine Inspectors several times, and they are in the best position to know. It would be as appropriate to compare the risks of clerical office work with the risk of railroading as to compare the risk of railroading with that of coal mining in this region, and no one who knows anything about it would attempt it. I would respectfully call attention to the fact that this district has two and a half times the number of employes, and is capable of producing three times the quantity of coal now, more than it did when mine inspection began, and the inspection is done still by one man only. The risk of mining is certainly many times greater. Owing to the complications attending anthracite mining, the manifold pitches and conditions of the coal in the earth, the groat thickness and number of the coal seams, the enormous quantity of explosives required in its extraction, and the great quantity of explosive gases evolved, it is recognized as an extremely difficult region to mine. Notwitlistanding this, the Bureau of Min«?s was (leated in the Department of Internal Affairs with no representation whatever in its organization from the anthracite region. If this Bureau was created with a sincere desire to assist the Inspectors in the enforcement of the law and to reduce the niiiiibcr of accidents, it should be considered that it cannot be done by kt^ping them occupied as they are kept now, at useless clerical work. An examination
No. 10. FOURTH ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. 89 of records at the offices of the Inspectors would show infinitely better whether the inspection work is done or not. A number of useless offices can be created and kept busy reporting to one another with fully as much good as the work exacted by the Bureau of Mines under the instruction of the Department of Internal Affairs at present. It is right that we should be supported and not handicapped i*' work so important. Yours respectfully, G. M. WILLIAMS, Inspector of Mines, Fourth Anthracite District. Total Production of Coal in Tons During the Year 1897. Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, 1,849,401.00 Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, 1,141,188.10 Susquehanna Coal Company, 1,291,352.07 Kingston Coal Company, 731,517.09 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, 499,951 .05 Lehigh Valley Coal Company, 349,366.16 Red Ash Coal Company, 209,958.12 Parrish Coal Company, 293,586.00 Alden Coal Company, 230,000 . 18 Plymouth Coal Company, 185,560.03 West End Coal Company, 121,830 . 00 Ilillman Vein Coal Company, 65,889 . 17 A. J. Davis, Warrior Run colliery, 172,057.18 Crescent Coal JNIining Company, 75,521.11 Melville Coal Company, 71,078.10 Reynolds & Moyer Coal Company, 110,524.09 Wyoming Coal Company Washery, 58,630 . 08 Total, 7,457,418.13 The total production was made up as follows: Tons. Shipped by railroad to market, 6,565,852.11 8old at the mines for local use, 226,387.13 Consumed to generate steaui (estimated), 665,178.09 Total 7,457,418.13
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