1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

162 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF MINES. Off. Doc.
Assistant Foreman.
Neal Gallagher, Peter McMonigal, Edw. Win wood, and James
Thomas, Jeddo; William Fry, Rock Glen; Hugh Gallagher, Sandy
Run; Jeremiah Moy, Lattimer; James Powell, Summit Hill; Patrick
Conaghan, Henry Polgrean and Adam Cluck, Hazleton; Peter Dougherty,
Harwood.
Mine Improvements.
The improvements made at the several collieries of the district
during the year 1900 were as follows:
Coxe Bros. & Co., Incorporated.
At Drif ton Slope No. 1 two tunnels were driven at the east to prove
the Wharton vein on the south side of basin, and gangways were
remodeled and some narrow work driven with the intention of employing
air haulage at that slope.
At Drifton Slope No. 2 another air compressor has been installed,
gangway® remodeled and two planes completed on west
side. An air motor has been received, of the same pattern as the
one described in last year's report. Drifton, Slope No. 2, worked
an aggregate of about two months during 1900. The breaker was
run principal!}- on Mammoth vein, which is supplied from Drifton,
Slope No. 1, and worked on Buck Mountain vein only about two days
a week, except during the period of the strike, when it was running
on Buck Mountain vein daily up to October 10th, the date of the
Oneida riot, when all collieries under control of this company
shut down absolutely until more peaceful times.
At Eckley—Buck Mountain, work was continued on the same basis
as during the previous years, with the exception tbat strippings furnished
about 50 per cent, of the output, against 30 per cent, in 1899.
Stockton Colliery continued as during 1899, except that the effect of
the water accumulating in the old workings proved itself more serious,
and new workings to
the dip had to be abandoned on account
of the intervening strata showing the effects of the weight of the
water lying in the abandoned workings of the East Sugar Loaf Coal
Company. An attempt to fill the old workings with black dirt along
the boundary line wdiere the principal influx of the water from the
old workings occurred, and by it shut the water off proved to be a
decided failure, but was very interesting. A * brick dam in an air way
and a crib dam on the gangwray had been constructed several years
ago, which held the water well, but the pillar was not considered
strong enough to withstand the water pressure, and it was decided
to fill the workings west of the pillar with dirt. A hole was drilled