1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

482 REPORT OI THE BUREAU OF MINES. Off. Doc.
winter. All the bricks required for the oven fronts, mine arches,
foundations, and building® for Leckrone and Buffington plants were
furnished by this brick yard. Another brick yard was operated
at Footdale, and worked during the summer, but it was without a
drying house.
"Among the buildings for
which brick were furnished were the
boiler house 48 feet by 70 feet, power house 48 feet by 50 feet, machine
shop 48 feet by 100 feet, office building 40 feet by 44 feet, two
fan houses and the three store buildings of the Mount Pleasant Supply
Company, each 40 feet by 100 feet.
"The roof trusses for these buildings are of steel and in general
wherever possible steel construction is used.
"Steam is carried from the boiler house 650 feet for the No. 1 fan
engine brick machinery and dry house, also a line 1,200 feet long
for heating the store and office, and for an engine for the ice plant at
the store.
"The Footdale plant is similar in all essential features to the Leckrone
plant. The 400 ovens are divided into two lines of 160 double
block ovens and 80 bank ovens. There are two drift mines and a
slope being driven to connect with the shaft at the Buffington plant.
"There is one hoist and a 1,000 ton bin at Footdale, all the coal
from the three mines being brought to one point at the foot of the
incline. In addition to the electric plant, an air compressor and
hoisting engine are installed for the development of the slope.
"It is not the intention to take the supply for the ovens from the
slope, but to provide by means of the slope an additional outlet from
the shaft workings and a traveling way for taking the stock to and
from the mine, thus avoiding the use of stables at shaft bottom.
"The shafts at Buffington are 390 feet deep and are located within
500 feet of the property line, so that all the coal tributary to the
shaft can be worked b}'
haulage roads with grades in favor of the
load. There are 400 ovens, all double block. The power plant consists
of six 150 horse power tubular boilers, a compound two-stage
air compressor, capacity 1,500 cubic feet of air per minute compressed
to 80 pounds pressure, furnished by Nordburg Manufacturing Co.,
of Milwauke, Wis., one pair of 24 inch by 48 inch first motion
hoisting engines furnished by the Vulcan Iron Works, Wilkes-Barre.
Pa., two self dumping cages furnished by Kenny & Co., Scottdale, Pa.,
a 1,000 ton bin erected by the Schultz Bridge and Iron Co., of Pittsburg,
Pa.
"There is also a 100 KW generator and engine for developing
power for the larries, electric lighting for the bottom of the shaft
and tenement houses, and a Capell fan 16 feet by 10 feet, with a
guaranteed capacity of 500,000 cubic feet of air per minute.
"The main shaft is 24 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, inside timber and the