1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

168 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF MINES. Off. Doc.
into the gun boat—hoisted to the top of the slope and dumped
into a chute provided for that purpose—carried along a traveling platform
where the process of separating the slate from the coal will
be carried out, after which it will be reloaded and sent to the breaker,
the slate going to the culm bank.
A pair of hoisting engines 18x36 inches, geared 5 to 1, will be
installed as soon as conditions warrant the same. The work of
grading that part of the slope driven through the rock to the
surface is progressing as rapidly as the conditions and weather
will permit, after which three rows of props will be placed in line
throughout the entire length of the slope and the tracks laid, when
it will be ready for operation, which will, in due time, handle the
entire output of the colliery with the exception of the Mammoth vein
s trippings. A tunnel has been driven south 320 feet long from the
west gangway, slope No. 2, Mammoth vein, cutting the Gamma vein
directly in line with the slope and will be driven north from west No.
2 Mammoth gangway to the south dip Gamma vein, connecting the
north and south sides of the basin with the new slope.
Lattimer Breaker.—Has been enlarged by extensive additions and
has been entirely remodeled, new and improved machinery installed
and shaking screens substituted for the former revolving screens,
additional jigs were put in and the plant in general has been modernized.
An electric light plant has been installed, which lights the
breaker and its surroundings with incandescent and arc lights.
The building is heated by steam.
A new frame building, 30x65 feet, has been erected as a machine
shop and equipped throughout with the most modern appliances.
Also, a frame building, 32x65 feet, has been erected as a blacksmith
shop. In addition to the necessary requirements for three fires, it
has been equipped with a No. 2 Hilles & Jones double punch shears.
An 800-pound steam hammer is on hand ready to be set in place.
frame building, 30x65 feet, two stories high, has been built as a carpenter
shop. A fan house and a 16-foot fan has been erected over the
top of Slope B, to ventilate the No. 2 Gamma workings, the slope
being used as an upcast.
Harwood Colliery.—In the West Buck Mountain gangway, Slope
No. 2, a slope has been driven 1,150 feet to the surface across the
pitch, at a vertical angle ranging from 5 degrees to 13 degrees, coming
to the surface at a point convenient to the conveyor pit from which
the coal is carried up into the breaker. The original proposition
being to continue the slope downward in the Buck Mountain vein to
a point near the eastern boundary line, terminating in the center
of the basin, and to eventually concentrate the entire output of
slopes Nos. 5, 4 and 2 to this slope, which means the abandonment of
those plants. In prosecuting the work in.West No. 2 Buck Mountain
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