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

218 REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF MINES. Off. Doc.
The main gangways
vein 75 yards long on each side of the shaft.
were then opened east and west on the Seven Foot vein. At 243
feet east of the shaft two holes were driven up the pitch to tap the
water in the old shaft, which was successfully done. A pair of new
hoisting engines were erected, having 40-inch diameter cylinders and
(JO-inch stroke. These engines were started to hoist water on November
13, with two tanks, each holding eighteen hundred gallons, and
at this writing the water has been nearly all taken out to the bottom
of the old shaft.
Eagle Hill Colliery.
A new air shaft is being sunk from the surface to the workings below,
having an area of 120 square feet. It is now down 175 feet, and
when completed will be provided with appliances for hoisting men,
which will make an additional outlet.
A new Cahall steam boiler of 250-liorse power, which is fired direct,
has been added to the steam plant. Two more of the same type are
being erected, which will utilize the waste heat from twenty plain
cylinder boilers.
Collieries Abandoned.
The East Franklin colliery, which has been idle since 1893, was dismantled
and abandoned during the year.
At the Otto colliery, the bore hole slope workings, which are inside
of the old White Ash slope workings, were stopped on September 17,
and abandoned. Both collieries are owned by the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company.