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

No. 10. EIGHTH ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. 217
Lincoln Colliery.
A tunnel is being driven from the No. 1 vein to the No. 2 vein. It
starts about 100 feet east of the No. 1 vein slope,on the sixth lift below
water level, and will connect with the bottom of the No. 2 vein slope in
the sixth lift. It is now in 71 yards, and when completed will be
about 300 yards long.
Phoenix Park No. 3 Colliery.
A tunnel, which starts at No. 43 chute on the fifth lift, East Diamond
vein gangway, has been driven through the saddle from the south to
the north dip, the length of which is 435 feet. A proving hole was
sunk from the top of saddle on the north dip, to the level of the gangway
before the tunnel was commenced.
Thomaston Colliery.
The new Lelar vein slope has been sunk to a depth of 306 2-3 yards
from the surface and 85 yards below the second lift on bottom of the
Crosby vein slope; at the bottom of the slope a short tunnel cuts the
Crosby vein, v/hich is 11 feet thick and of fair coal. Gangways are
turned east and west, and connections are now being made from the
Crosby vein to the airhole on the Lelar vein, east of the slope, which
io being made with a sectional area of 80 square feet.
Glendower Colliery.
A tunnel has been started at the bottom of the No. 2 plane, in the
Glendower slope, to be driven to the Buck Mountain vein. It is now
in about 20 yards.
Wadesville Shaft Colliery.
At the old shaft, ten new return boilers have been erected, taking
the place of the old boiler plant. A new pair of hoisting engines, with
cylinders thirty inclies in diameter, and sixty-inch stroke, were
erected in place of the old coal hoisting engines, with which they
started to hoist the water out of the shaft on July 14, the water at
that time being up to the water levels.
The new shaft was completed on the 3d of Aj^ril, being 749 feet in
depth from the surface to the bottom slate of the Mammoth vein. The
Mamniotli vein is 25 feet thick and of good coal. Above the Mammoth
there is 12 feet of slate between it and the Seven Foot vein, which is
S feet thick of good coal. Above the v'^even Foot there is 7 feet of slate
between it and the Four Foot vein, which is 4 feet thick of good coal;
dip, 1!) degrees south.
A trial hole has been sunk on the Seven Foot vein, south of the shaft
to a depth of 30 yards. Pump gangways were driven in the Seven Foot