1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

No. 11. EIGHTH BITUMINOUS DISTRICT. 597
Staffordshire Mine.— In the 1st and 2d left heading the air was
defective from leaky brattice, which I called the official's attention
to. Drainage was very fair.
Midvale No. 1.—Air very fair. Drainage had local defects.
Midvale No. 2.—Air rather weak in new drift. Other places very
Drainage some unavoidable defects.
Henderson No. 2.—When doors are completed air will be very fair
fair.
for men employed. Drainage was very fair. This is a new operation
on crop coal.
Moshannon No. 1.—The ventilation was in very fair condition except
at one point which on the day of my visit they expected to connect
with an old shaft. The drainage was in very fair condition.
Moshannon No. 2.—Ventilation and drainage were in very fair condition.
Forest Mine.—Was well ventilated and drained during the year.
Hobson Mine.—Was in very condition and had only 9 men employed
the greater part of the year.
Mapleton Mine.—Was well ventilated and drained.
Mt. Vernon No. 7.—Air in very fair condition, but there was defective
drainage on haulage roads which the foreman was requested to
improve.
Mt. Vernon No. 11.—Is a new operation and on D seam of coal.
Was ordered to be improved by making proper airways.
Whiteside No. 1 and 2.—The air was weak on my last visit, but
has been ventilated by a furnace, and is well drained.
Mountz Mine.—Air was very weak and only a few men were employed.
there were only nine men employed. Drainage was very fair.
Schwinn Mine.—Has been re-opened and a new drift put in by a
new firm which has bought the property, which I think will be kept
in a very fair condition.
Union No. 1 and 5.—The former is only a small operation with 4 or
5 men employed. No. 5 is a new opening on crop coal left by other
abandoned mines.
Shoff No. 2.—Ventilation and drainage has been very fair during
the year.
Loraine Mine.—On my last visit I ordered all places stopped in the
first left heading in the lower drift until the brattice was properly
built to conduct the air to the working places. Drainage was poor.
Reading Mine.— Ventilation was in very fail- condition for number
of men employed; drainage fair.
Parks Mine.—Ventilation and drainage were in good condition.
Phoenix.—A new operation on old Coaldale No. '.\ property; the
drainage and ventilation were found in very fair condition.
Madeira Mine.— Is ;i new operation on K seam of coal, with a gasoline
pump for drainage and furnace for ventilation, which was in very
fair condition.
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