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

496 REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OP MINES. Off. Doc.
Ibey are still liaviug trouble with rolls and clay veins, which makes it
a difficult mine to work properly, and they also have trouble with
v^ater. They worked very well during the year, and the (luantity of
coal shipped was large for a mine of this character. The ventilation
and drainage were good during the year.
Cato.—This mine is located on the Beech Creek railroad, and very
little work was done during the year. I visited the mine only once,
when the ventilation was fairly good. They have put in a new opening
and have cut off the haul from the dip workings. They are also
putting in a new furnace for the new opening.
Glen ^A'hite.—This mine is located three miles from Kittanning
Point, on the Pennsylvania railroad, it is a slope mine and the
coal is hauled from the slope by a tail rope, and after being dumped
it is then run down by a rojjc more than a mile, and is then taken up by
mule team, and hauled to the t(vi) of a plane, and dropped down to
the tipple, wlier-e it is screened and the fine coal is used in the coke
ovens. They have driven the slojte down a long distance and made
a new double parting and turned ott' nuiin headings; from these main
headings, cross headings will be driven up grade and the rooms turned
right and left on the level. They have much trouble with clay veins
and water and have steam pumps to keep the mine clear and they are
pushing tlu' slojjc so as to connect with the workings of the Anisbry
mine; and when this is finished, the waiter will run out hy gravity.
The vfMitilation was good during the year.
Horse Shoe.—This mine is located nearly three miles from Kittanning
Point, and they are working the Miller seam, and here the
bottom is very soft and the sand rock above the coal is very thick and
heavy, with the result that in one pair of headings, when the rooms
were worked up and the pillars were being pulled back, a squeeze
came on and closed uj) the headings so that they were compelled to
gei the coal from another })oint. They also encountered a big roll
and have been compelled to go around it, so that the mine is not in as
j?ood condition as (he management could wish it, but they had to work
according to the lay of the ground. The ventilation and di'ainage
of the mine were good.
Delaney.—This mine is worked by the same company that operated
ihc TTorse Shoe mine, but it is on the four-foot vein. There is a slo])e
running thi-ough tlio liiil, and a ]*art of the workings are in the slope,
and the otlu'i- two openings are in the hills beyond tlw^ bottom of the
slope. The coal is hauled from the dill