1873 - Old Forge Coal Mines

270 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
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cars are taken into them. Counter-gangways, driven off the slope at certain
distances, are driven across the breasts. This slope is working with a
single tract, for the purpose of hitching or coupling to cars on any part of
the slope. The air is good. Amount supplied is about 10,000 cubic feet
per minute, partly caused by the exhaust from a steam pump and by air
going through an air-way to No. 1, Yorktown.
The whole machinery of this colliery consists of 10 engines of 380-horse
power. The whole amount of coal shipped in 1873 was 100,000 tons. Powder
used, 2,307 kegs. Men and boys employed inside, 72 ; outside, 32 ;
total, 104. Mules inside, 9; outside, 1; total, 10. Boilers for all machinery,
22 ;
in good order.
No. 3 slope is a slope now sinking on the Wharton vein. General superintendent,
E. S. Bullock ;
mine agent, D. Reese ;
outside foreman, Thos.
Davies.
Hazleton Colliery, Luzerne county.— Landowners, Diamond Coal Company.—
Operators, A. Pardee & Co.
Old Sugar Loaf slope, south dip, length 1,755 feet, vertical 979 feet.
Sugar Loaf, No. 2, south dip, length 1,105 feet, vertical 639 feet. These
slopes are sunk in the Big vein, the old one is sunk to the basin. The
slopes are about 150 yards apart, and a breaker erected between them. The
only workings at present is a gangway in the rock tunnel on the opposite
pitch to prove the vein.
Machinciy consists of 2 hoisting engines, one 40 and the other 80-horse
power ; 1 breaker engine, 40-horse power ; 2 pumping engines, one 70 and
the other 60-horse power ; 23 boilers.
South Sugar Loaf, or No. 3, length 666 feet, vertical 382 feet, north dip.
This colliery, through rolls and faults, will soon be worked out. Coal
worked Big vein ;
average thickness 27 feet. There could be another lift
sunk in the slope, but it would be necessary to have another slope, owing
to roll or fault in bottom of slope. Well ventilated.
Machineiy consists of 1 hoisting engine, 90-horse power ; 1 breaker engine,
20-horse power ; 2 steam pumps ; 8 boiiers. Wm. Fatkin, mine boss.
No. 1, old slope, south dip, length 2,271 feet, vertical 836 feet. Landowners,
L. V. R. R. company. Operators, A. Pardee & Co. Coal worked
is the Big vein ;
average thickness 27 feet. This slope has been sunk to
basin, but the present workings are about 60 yards above the bottom of
the slope. Direction of the gangway is east and west. The east gangway
is driven to the line. The west gangway connects with the east gangway
of No. 3 slope. The ventilation is good, caused by 2 furnaces. This work
accumulates little fire-damp, but no one has been injured by it this year.
The mine boss, Peter Watson, acts as fireman.
Machinery consists of 1 hoisting engine, 60-horse power ; 1 breaker engine,
15-horse power; 1 pumping engine, 60-horse power; 11 boilers, in
good condition. Air is passing through the mines at the rate of 7,000
cubic feet per minute. Peter Watson, mine boss.
No. 3 slope, south dip, length 1,062 feet, 555 feet vertical. Landowners,
L. V. R. R. company. Operators, A. Pardee & Co. This slope is sunk in
the Big vein, and is on a level with the present workings of No. 1 slope,
and connected by their west gangway ;
well ventilated ;
about 6,000 cubic
feet of air passes through the works per minute. The present workings will
be left for No. 1 slope to work, and No. 3 will be sunk another lift.