Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of ...

134 REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF MINES. Off. Doc.
T^\o "Green Kidge slate pickers" have beeu put iu Jeddo No. 4
breaker for cleaning stove coal and an auxiliary slate drag line has
beeu added.
Ebervale.—Carpenter and blacksmith shops have been built, also a
wash house for the accommodation of miners.
A stripping known as "Stripping ()," has been opened on the Mamjiioth
vein on the north side of the property, and it is now being
stripped to the west.
The South Side drainage canal which ended with the west end
of the Jeddo property line is now being extended along the south
of Ebervale to connect with the south side drainage canal on the
Harleigh property.
First Lift gangway, north side, has been opened from No. 1 slope
to west end of property.
A GO ton Bucjrus shovel and two G-wheel 25 ton Baldwin locomotives
have been added to the stripping plant.
Jeddo.—A reservoir of about 2, 5()(), ()()() gallons capacity at Jeddo
South Side water works was completed in June.
A Kand Drill Co. air compressor and air pump connected with
the G inch bore hole reported in 189G liave been installed and an additional
boiler added to the boiler plant at this place.
A six inch pipe line was laid from the north side of East End
stripping to the new pumping station at Jeddo.
A twin pumping plant for pumping water to all collieries on the
Jeddo property has been erected, consisting of two 100 horse pow'er
economic boilers and two compound pumps of the Jeanesville Iron
Works pattern, and a new pump and boiler house has been erected
and necessary pipes laid to lead to mains for supply.
Tlic Old Slope pumping station has been abandoned.
Upper Lehigh Coal Company.
A new locomotive was purchased to handle the increased tonnage
from the several strippings.
At No. 2 boiler plant a 6 foot Sturtevant blower fan was installed
which is o])orated by a 12x12 inch horizontal engine.
Although the coal is washed, there is at times considerable dust
generated about the steamboat screen, and to obviate this as far as
])Ossible. an air stack has boon placed through the roof of the breaker
to the rolls.
At the oast«M'n end of the property an 8 inch artesian well was sunk
534 fe«'t and a lOxHx.'i inch lifting pump put down .315 feet.
In No. 2 Slo])e a rock tunnel has been driven 210 feet to connect
wWh X(». 1 slope for the ])urpose of drainage; this relieves the pum]>s
in No. 1 at present and will eventually do away with them entirely.