1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

No. 11. EIGHTH BITUMINOUS DISTRICT. 535
Decatur Xos. 1. 2 and :: Mines.—Arc connected inside and subject
to the same ventilating current of air. Some defects were found at
the face of several places in each drift, caused by leaky and defective
brattice, to which the foreman's attention was called. No. 4 was
in fair condition.
Acme Xo. 1 and 2 Slopes.— Ventilation and drainage very fair in
both mines; they are connected on the same ventilating fan, which
was put in this year, and is a 12-foot Stine.
Colorado Drift No. 3.—The total volume of air was insufficient for
the blasting done, and the company expect to put in a new furnace
shaft in the near future near the solid workings.
Baltic Drift No. 3.—Air was detective in the fourteenth right heading,
owing to defects in brattice, and a furnace shaft in No. 15 right
would remedy all defects, which I suggested. Some local defects
exist in drainage.
Red Jacket Drift.—Ventilation and drainage were in very fair condition,
this is a very dangerous roof and needs close attention, which
it. generally gets from the foreman.
Ashman Drift No. 1 had some defects caused by ventilating furnace
being too small. No. 2 drift air was very fair. The mine being
naturally dry, drainage needs little attention.
Webster No. 4 Drift.—In ninth and tenth right headings the air
was very defective. In other places was fair. The headings referred
to were constantly impregnated with carbonic acid gas.
Drainage was fair.
Fairmount No. 1 and 2 Drifts.—No. 1 air was very fair and roads
naturally dry but men were blasting too early in the morning. Rule
No. 49 was being violated by some miners, which I
ordered stopped.
No. 2 mine was in very fair condition.
Lenore Drift.—E seam air still defective, new furnace not completed.
D seam, air very fair. Both drifts had some local defects
in drainage, which I called the foreman's attention to.
Lane Drift Xo. 1 and 2.—Air in very fair condition and also drainage,
but a luanway is needed in the upper drift, which I ordered them
to have made as rapidly as possible.
Friendship and Henrietta Drift Mines were well ventilated and
drained; both operations being on coal left by other operations that
had been abandoned.
Alexandria Drift.—Ventilation was very fair, except at face of a
few rooms; to remedy the defect I ordered check doors on heading,
and I also called attention to spragging of coal.
Leland Drift Mines Xo. 1.— Ventilation very fair, but drainage defectjve.
Xo. 2, air very fair, drainage had local defects. No. 3, ventilation
and drainage very fair. Xo. 4, new operation, but the furnace
ami manway were not completed, which they were busily engaged
in putting in order.