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492 REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF MINES. Off. Doc.<br />

liave had trouble in this mine from <strong>the</strong> commencement owing to<br />

<strong>the</strong> coal in many places pinching nearly out, and in having so man}-<br />

swamps, so <strong>the</strong> onlj- workable coal <strong>the</strong>y could get was found by following<br />

in <strong>the</strong> troughs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> swamps. During <strong>the</strong> last summer,<br />

<strong>the</strong> coal was so much narrowed down that <strong>the</strong> management concluded<br />

to finish <strong>the</strong> mine and <strong>the</strong>y are now engaged in bringing out <strong>the</strong> room<br />

pillars, and <strong>the</strong> heading pillars, and at <strong>the</strong> present rate <strong>of</strong> working it<br />

will not last more than one year at <strong>the</strong> utmost. The ventilation was<br />

very good during <strong>the</strong> year, and everything is well attended to about<br />

<strong>the</strong> mine.<br />

0"i:^hanter <strong>Mines</strong>.—These mines are located about one mile from<br />

Mitchell station, on <strong>the</strong> Beech Creek railroad, and are two in number.<br />

]So. 1 mine will average three feet in thickness <strong>of</strong> coal, with a band <strong>of</strong><br />

cannel coal running from four to twelve inches in thickness on <strong>the</strong> top<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> coal and next <strong>the</strong> ro<strong>of</strong>, which coal is thrown into <strong>the</strong> gob as<br />

being worthless. The method <strong>of</strong> working is heading and air course,<br />

and rooms are turned <strong>of</strong>f <strong>the</strong> heading and driven up sixty yards, and<br />

<strong>the</strong> pillar is <strong>the</strong>n drawn back.<br />

This mine will not last much longer<br />

as <strong>the</strong>y are pulling out <strong>the</strong> heading pillars, and also <strong>the</strong> room pillars<br />

that have been left. The ventilation, at <strong>the</strong> beginning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> year,<br />

^^as not ver^' good, but on my later visits it was in a fairly good condition,<br />

which was owing to <strong>the</strong> main air course having been closed<br />

up, and <strong>the</strong>y were obliged to make a new one. In No. 2 mine, work<br />

has been confined to pulling out <strong>the</strong> headiug pillars, and it is also<br />

nearly worked out.<br />

This company did some work during <strong>the</strong> year at <strong>the</strong> Plane mine, at<br />

Mitchell station, and as soon as <strong>the</strong> two old mines are worked out,<br />

<strong>the</strong>y will transfer <strong>the</strong>ir operations to that mine, and <strong>the</strong>y will put in<br />

a new opening that will strike <strong>the</strong> present face <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> workings, so<br />

that it will <strong>the</strong>n be a comparatively new mine.<br />

lUoomington.—These mines, two in number, are working <strong>the</strong> same,<br />

vein as <strong>the</strong> O'Shanter people, and <strong>the</strong> characteristics <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> seam, as<br />

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