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No. 11. EIGHTH ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. 265
same depth as the No. 5 vein slope; they were built at the Philadelphia
and Beading Coal and Iron Company's Pottsville shops, and
are iitted up with the latest improvements, having steam reverse
and both steam and hand brakes mi the drum. The cylinders are
tO indies in diameter, with 60-inch stroke. Drum is 18 feet G inches
in diameter, steel wire rope If inches in diameter. They were put
into service on September 1(1. 1 900. The No. 4 basin slope has been
sunk 235 yards and is still going deeper.
Lincoln Colliery.—The new water shaft was completed on October
l.'Sth. and is 908 feet deep from the surface to the bottom. A tunnel
30 feet long, driven south, connects the shaft to sump gangway, on
small seam called No. H vein. 39 feel above the bottom of the shaft.
A gangway driven east on the No. 1£ vein 100 feet, connects with
the sixth lift tunnel in the No. 1 vein slope with the shaft. Another
connection is also made on the No. 1 vein, fourth lift, with the shaft.
( rood Spring Colliery.—The new slope called the No. 3 slope, which
is about 1^ miles east of the breaker, has* been sunk to a depth
of 338 feet from the surface, on an average dip of about 45 degrees,
and gangways have been opened on the top bench, which is
about 8 feet thick. Tunnels have been driven on each side to the
middle bench, which is 5| feet thick, and to the bottom bench,
which is (i.l feet thick, and a tunnel is being driven from the bottom
bench to the Skidmore and Buck Mountain veins. An air hole has
been driven to the surface, on which a 15-foot diameter fan has been
placed. A pair of first-motion engines, with 28-inch cylinders, 48-
inch stroke, and with drum 10 feet 8 inches in diameter, which were
built at the company's shops, were put in service in November.
Otto Colliery.—The old breaker was stopped on April 28th and
torn down and a new breaker erected, a short distance north of
the old site, which has been fitted with the most modern appliances
for the preparation of coal. It was started on August 16th, an
interval of ninety-three working days elapsing from the time the
old breaker was stopped until the new one was started. In the
underground slope, from the water level
on the White Ash, on the
liKt lift, a tunnel has been driven from the top to the bottom bench,
68 feet long, and from the bottom bench to the Skidmore vein, 78
feel long, the bottom bench being 9 feet thick, dip 25 degrees north,
and the Skidmore 6 feet thick, dip 58 degrees north. An air hole
has been driven on the Skidmore vein 212 yards to Ihe top of an anticlinal
and a shaft 20 feet deep connects it with the surface. A tunnel
is also In ing driven from the bottom bench, on the the water level.
to the Skidmore vein. These are the lirst openings that have been
made on the Skidmore vein a1 this colliery.
Wadesville Colliery.—The south tunnel has been continued, cutting
the Primrose vein 8 feet thick, dip 36* degrees south, at about 950