1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

Official Document, No. 11,
Fourth Bituminous District.
TIOGA, POTTER, BRADFORD, LYCOMING, CLINTON, CAMERON, Mc-
KEAN AND ELK COUNTIES, AND ALL THE MINES IN CLEARFIELD
COUNTY ADJACENT TO THE LOW GRADE DIVISION OF THE ALLE-
GHENY VALLEY RAILROAD; ALSO THE MINES ADJACENT TO THE
CLEARFIELD AND SUSQUEHANNA BRANCH OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD; ALSO THE MINES ADJACENT TO THE BUFFALO, ROCHES-
TER AND PITTSBURGH RAILROAD IN JEFFERSON AND CLEARFIELD
COUNTIES.
Du Bois, Pa., February 18, 1001.
Hon. James W. Latta, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Harrisburg, Pa.:
Sir: I have the honor of presenting herewith my annual report
as Inspector of Mines for the Fourth Bituminous District, for the
year ending December 31, 1000, in compliance with section 2,
article
10, of the act of Assembly, approved May 15, 1803.
The mines of the district have had an unusual year of activity,
free from strife between the employers and employes, as the result
of a scale of wages fixed upon in the early part of the year.
There have also been several new mines opened during the year,
in different part® of the district, and, in consequence, there has
been quite a marked increase in the production of coal over that
of any single year in the district. The total production of coal, as
reported to this office, amounts to 8,100,027 tons, an increase of
052,086 tons, over that of the year 1800.
The production of coke in the district for the year amounted to
480,674 tons, showing a decrease of 14,500 tons, compared with that
of the preceding year.
There has been a greater number of persons employed in and about
the mines during the year than ever before; there were 10,317 employed,
or 677 more than for the preceding year.
The number of fatal accidents for the year is the same as in the
year 1800, but the number of non-fatal accidents has increased by
about 50 per cent, over the preceding year.
Comparing the tonnage of coal with that of the preceding year,
;ilso the number of" persons employed dming the same periods, the
death rate has decreased during the year 1000.
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